> The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) is a grant-making
> agency of the U.S. federal government that support projects in the
> humanities. Eligible applicants are: U.S. nonprofit associations,
> institutions, and organizations, as well as U.S. citizens and foreign
>
> nationals who have been legal residents in the United States for a
> period of at least the three years immediately preceding the
> submission of the application.
>
> NEH's Division of Preservation and Access supports projects that
> will create, preserve and increase the availability of resources
> important for research, education, and public programming in the
> humanities. Support may be sought to preserve the intellectual
> content
> and aid bibliographic control of collections; to compile
> bibliographies, descriptive catalogs, and guides to cultural
> holdings;
> to create dictionaries, encyclopedias, databases, and other types of
> research tools and reference works; and to stabilize material culture
>
> collections through the appropriate housing and storing of objects,
> improved environmental control, and the installation of security,
> lighting, and fire-prevention systems. Applications may also be
> submitted for national and regional education and training projects,
> regional preservation field service programs, and research and
> demonstration projects that are intended to enhance institutional
>
> practice and the use of technology for preservation and access.
>
> Projects may encompass collections of books, journals,
> newspapers, manuscript and archival materials, maps, still and moving
>
> images, sound recordings, and objects of material culture held by
> libraries, archives, museums, historical organizations, and other
> repositories.
>
> The Division has a single, annual DEADLINE for applications, JULY
> 1. Final decisions will be announced the following March.
> Guidelines and instructions can be downloaded from the NEH Web site:
>
> http://www.neh.gov/html/guidelin/preservation.html
>
> A list of recent awards is also available at that site under
> "What's New".
>
> http://www.neh.gov/html/awards/preserv99.html
>
> To obtain a print version of the Guidelines or to
> address a question to the NEH staff, e-mail us at
>
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>
> Postal address:
>
> Division of Preservation and Access
> NEH, Room 411
> 1100 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
> Washington, DC 20506
>
> Telephone: 202/606-8570
>
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