{"id":486,"date":"2018-02-28T13:50:14","date_gmt":"2018-02-28T13:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/research\/?p=486"},"modified":"2018-03-01T13:51:48","modified_gmt":"2018-03-01T13:51:48","slug":"grc-conference-highlight-neh-preservation-and-access","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/research\/2018\/02\/28\/grc-conference-highlight-neh-preservation-and-access\/","title":{"rendered":"GRC Conference Highlight: NEH Preservation and Access"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>by\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:grantweek@aascu.org\">Wellons, Richard<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Program Officer Cathleen Tefft of the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) joined GRC conference attendees last week to speak about NEH funding to support preserving and accessing cultural collections and\u00a0to provide tips to\u00a0potential applicants. Eligible\u00a0cultural\u00a0collections can include collections of books, serials, manuscripts, sound recordings, still and moving images, works of art, objects of material culture, and digital collections.\u00a0The NEH Division of Preservation and Access provides a variety of grants that support preservation, capacity building, sustainability, training, and public engagement related to these humanities collections. A full list of Preservation and Access grant programs can be found\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.neh.gov\/divisions\/preservation\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Among the tips, Tefft provided was to make sure to read the sample application narratives and sample budgets, usually found on the right side of the main page of an NEH grant program site, which can provide a sense of what a funded proposal looks like. Applicants can even request that other samples be made available if they want to see a narrative that\u2019s a better fit. Tefft noted that program pages also contain lists of frequently asked questions and statistics on the probability of an applicant&#8217;s success based on the number of applications submitted and awards made in previous years. She also suggested that before submitting, applicants look at recent awards in the NEH\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/securegrants.neh.gov\/publicquery\/main.aspx\">awards database<\/a>\u00a0related to their geographic area and discipline to get a sense of funding trends. She noted that NEH Program Officers are happy to review and provide comments on draft proposals or ideas up to a month in advance of the deadline. She also stressed that one of the best ways to gain experience is to serve as a peer reviewer \u2013 potential reviewers can register\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/securegrants.neh.gov\/signup\/\">here<\/a>\u00a0and learn about the review process\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.neh.gov\/grants\/application-process\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In a highlight of her talk, Tefft showed attendees how different NEH grants could fund various aspects of a preservation-related project, illustrating this through the example of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.neh.gov\/explore\/the-david-livingstone-spectral-imaging-project\">David Livingstone Spectral Imaging Project<\/a>\u00a0at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. This project was funded through\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/securegrants.neh.gov\/publicquery\/main.aspx?q=1&amp;a=0&amp;n=0&amp;o=0&amp;k=1&amp;kv=david+livingstone&amp;kj=and&amp;w=0&amp;f=0&amp;s=0&amp;p=0&amp;d=0&amp;y=0&amp;prd=0&amp;cov=0&amp;prz=0&amp;wp=0&amp;pg=0&amp;ob=year&amp;or=DESC\">three awards<\/a>\u00a0from three different NEH Divisions: NEH Digital Humanities, which provided $50,000 to develop the technology and tools that would allow researchers to preserve and digitize the diary of 19th\u00a0Century explorer David Livingstone; NEH Preservation and Access, which provided $275,000 to support the digitization and transcription of the diary pages; and NEH Research,\u00a0which provided $158,605 to prepare publication of an online critical edition of the diary.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on this session contact GRC Program Manager Richard Wellons at\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:wellonsr@aascu.org\">wellonsr@aascu.org<\/a>\u00a0or (202) 478-4714.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by\u00a0Wellons, Richard Program Officer Cathleen Tefft of the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) joined GRC conference attendees last week to speak about NEH funding to support preserving and accessing cultural collections and\u00a0to provide tips to\u00a0potential applicants. 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