>  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
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>      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
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>      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".
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>               http://www.neh.gov/html/awards/preserv99.html
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>      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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