Grants in Humanities Collections and Reference Resources program - HCRR
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The Division of Preservation and Access of the National Endowment for the Humanities will be accepting applications for grants in its Humanities Collections and Reference Resources program.
These grants support projects to preserve and create intellectual access to such collections as books, journals, manuscript and archival materials, maps, still and moving images, sound recordings, art, and objects of material culture.
Awards also support the creation of reference works, online resources, and research tools of major importance to the humanities.
HCRR offers two kinds of awards:
1) Implementation Grants -- $350,000 maximum, for up to three years. Eligible activities include: arranging and describing archival and manuscript collections; cataloging collections of printed works, photographs, recordedsound, moving images, art, and material culture; providing conservation treatment for collections, leading toenhanced access; digitizing collections; preserving and improving access to born-digital sources; developing databases, virtual collections, or other electronicresources to codify information on a subject or to provide integrated accessto selected humanities materials; creating encyclopedias; preparing linguistic tools, such as historical and etymologicaldictionaries, corpora, and reference grammars; developing tools for spatial analysis and representation ofhumanities data, such as atlases and geographic information systems (GIS);and designing digital tools to facilitate use of humanitiesresources.
2) HCRR Foundations Grants -- $40,000 maximum, for up to two years.To help in the formative stages of initiatives to preserve and create accessto humanities collections or to produce reference resources, Foundationsgrants will support planning, assessment, and pilot activities thatincorporate expertise from a mix of professional domains. Drawing upon thecooperation of humanities scholars and technical specialists, these projectsmight encompass efforts to prepare for establishing intellectual control ofcollections, to develop plans and priorities for digitizing collections, tosolidify collaborative frameworks and strategic plans for complex digitalrepositories and resources, or to produce preliminary versions of onlinecollections or resources.
New guidelines for HCRR<http://www.neh.gov/grants/preservation/humanities-collections-and-reference-resources> have now been posted, along with sample proposal narratives,FAQs, and other resources.
The application deadline is July 17, 2014, withprojects beginning May 2015. All applications to NEH must be submitted electronically through Grants.gov; see guidelines for details
Prospective applicants seeking further information are encouraged to contact the Division at 202-606-8570 orpreservation@neh.gov <mailto:preservation@neh.gov>.
Program staff will read draft proposals submitted six weeks before the deadline.
Details on thefull slate of funding opportunities in Preservation and Access, along with news and features, can be found on the Division’s website http://www.neh.gov/divisions/preservation .
The National Endowment for the Humanities is a grant-making agency of theUnited States (U.S.) federal government that supports projects in thehumanities. U.S. nonprofit associations, institutions, and organizations areeligible applicants. NEH's Division of Preservation and Access supportsprojects that will create, preserve, and make available cultural resourcesof importance for research, education, and lifelong learning. To learn moreabout NEH, please visit http://www.neh.gov.>
