AGENCY: National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) PROGRAM: Humanities Collections and Reference Resources OBJECTIVES: This program provides funding to support projects that provide an essential foundation for scholarship, education, and public programming in the humanities. Thousands of libraries, archives, museums, and historical organizations across the country maintain important collections of books and manuscripts, photographs, sound recordings and moving images, archaeological and ethnographic artifacts, art and material culture, electronic records, and digital objects. The goal of this program is to strengthen efforts to extend the life of such materials and make their intellectual content widely accessible, often through the use of digital technology. Awards are also made to create various reference resources that facilitate use of cultural materials, from works that provide basic information quickly to tools that synthesize and codify knowledge of a subject for in-depth investigation. Applications may be submitted for projects that include or combine the following activities: a) arranging and describing archival and manuscript collections; b) cataloging collections of printed works, photographs, recorded sound, moving images, art, and material culture; c) implementing preservation measures; d) digitizing collections, or preserving and improving access to born-digital resources; e) developing databases, virtual collections, or other electronic resources; f) creating encyclopedias; g) preparing linguistic tools; h) developing tools for spatial analysis and representation of humanities data, such as atlases and geographical information systems (GIS); and i) designing digital tools to facilitate use of humanities resources. DEADLINE: July 15, 2009 FUNDING INFORMATION: The NEH normally awards between $100,000 and $350,000 for projects over a three-year period. In most cases, NEH Humanities Collections and Resources grants cover no more than 50 to 67% of project costs. AGENCY CONTACT: REMARKS: Applications must be submitted electronically using the Grants.gov system. Instructions and forms are available on the Grants.Gov website (http://www.grants.gov). Additional information about Grants.gov for BU Investigators can be obtained on the OSP website at: http://www.bu.edu/osp/pdf/Grantsgovinfo.pdf. Please contact the OSP Assistant Director assigned to your school or department as soon as possible to coordinate submission through the Grants.gov system. Please distribute this notice to any faculty or staff members who might be interested in the information. For more information, please contact the OSP at X3-4365 or ospinfo@bu.edu, or visit the OSP web site at http://www.bu.edu/osp. |
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