Alicia

IPI Needs Your Help!

Posted by Alicia on 13 June, 2008 in Preservation

The Image Permanence Institute at the Rochester Institute of Technology (IPI) is conducting a survey to quantify institutional experiences with digitally printed materials (books, documents, ephemera, photographs, etc). The results of this survey will help to provide you with the guidance and tools you need to care for these modern materials. The questionnaire should take 5 [...]

NHPRC’s Archives Basic Projects Grant

Posted by Alicia on 4 June, 2008 in Preservation

The National Historical Publications and Records Commission staff will
hold a conference call on July 1, 2008 to answer questions about its
Archives: Basic Projects grants.
 
In brief, the Commission developed this category because it “is
particularly concerned that some historical collections in archives
and repositories are difficult for most researchers to find because
they are not [...]

NEH Accepting Grants

Posted by Alicia on 4 June, 2008 in Preservation

The Division of Preservation and Access of the National Endowment for the Humanities will be accepting applications for grants in Humanities Collections and Resources. 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 [...]

Digital Preservation Definition Now Available

Posted by Alicia on 30 May, 2008 in Preservation

The definition of digital preservation that was recently approved by the Association of Library Collections and Technical Services (ALCTS), a unit of the American Library Association, is now available in a 2 page printer friendly PDF version.   
Please go to ALA to download a copy.  
If you will be attending the upcoming American Library Association Annual conference in [...]

Congrats! Appalachian State

Posted by Alicia on 28 April, 2008 in Uncategorized

Appalachian State University’s Archives and Records received a $38,100 grant from the North Carolina State Library to digitize 3,120 of their historical photographs. For more on the story, read…

Congrats to NEH Grant Recipients in SE

Posted by Alicia on 14 April, 2008 in Preservation

FLORIDA
University of Florida Libraries, Gainesville - $6,000
Project Title: An English Translation of Diogenes Laertius’s Lives of the Philosophers
University of North Florida, Jacksonville - $6,000
Project Title: Delusive and Dangerous? Hume’s Naturalistic Psychology of Religious Belief
 
GEORGIA
University of Georgia, Athens - $349,600
Project Title: Digitization of Atlas Audio Recordings
Emory University, Atlanta - $349,641
Project Title: The African Origins Portal: [...]

SBA Disaster Assistance for GA Tornado Victims

Posted by Alicia on 27 March, 2008 in Preservation

 Our heart goes out to members and their staff who have been affected by the recent tornadoes in the Atlanta area.
SBA disaster assistance is available to tornado victims in Georgia following the March 14-16 incident.  (See sba-press-release and fact-sheet-ga-11196-2)
FEMA is working with the state to identify the locations of Disaster Recovery Centers and their hours of [...]

Cultural Institutions Affected by Recent Tornadoes in ATL

Posted by Alicia on 26 March, 2008 in Preservation

Solinet knows of three cultural institutions directly affected by the storms and tornadoes that came through the Atlanta area March 14th-16th.
Atlanta-Fulton Public Library had some broken windows at their central library but luckily no collections were damaged. They also suffered from debris from nearby buildings. One of their biggest challenges was that [...]

Calling Small to Mid-sized Mississippi Museums!

Posted by Alicia on 24 March, 2008 in Preservation

Heritage Preservation has created a new Risk Evaluation and Planning program for small to mid-sized musems.  Their pilot project will focus initially on Mississippi, Texas, and Ohio.  Two assessors will come on-site to conduct an on-site general risk evaluation, write a report of the findings, outline priorities for cost-effective management strategies, and follow up by [...]

Test Your Knowledge of Digital Materials!

Posted by Alicia on 18 March, 2008 in Preservation

Did you know that digital materials can be more difficult to preserve than physical ones?
Test your knowledge here: Did you know?

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