Category Archives: News from the Field

National Endowment for the Humanities Preservation Assistance Grants

The National Endowment for the Humanities Preservation Assistance Grants are open for applications.

Grant Summary: “Preservation Assistance Grants help small and mid-sized institutions—such as libraries, museums, historical societies, archival repositories, cultural organizations, town and county records offices, and colleges and universities—improve their ability to preserve and care for their significant humanities collections. These may include special collections of books and journals, archives and manuscripts, prints and photographs, moving images, sound recordings, architectural and cartographic records, decorative and fine art objects, textiles, archaeological and ethnographic artifacts, furniture, historical objects, and digital materials.Continue reading→

Digital Learning Center

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The www.DigitalLearning.org site will contain self-directed tutorials and a community of practice for people at libraries and community organizations who are working to bridge the digital divide.

The site launch coincides with the launch of the Connect2Compete EveryoneOn initiative, a 3-year national service marketing campaign that is working to ensure all Americans have the access and skills needed to get online and become digital citizens. More information about Connect2Compete can be found at www.connect2compete.org

Libri Foundation 2013 BOOKS FOR CHILDREN grants

The Libri Foundation is a nationwide non-profit organization which donates new, quality, hardcover children’s books to small, rural public libraries throughout the United States. Since October 1990, the Foundation has donated almost $5.5 million worth of new children’s books to more than 3,000 libraries in all 50 states.

In order to encourage and reward local support of libraries, The Libri Foundation will match any amount of money raised by your local sponsors from $50 to $350 on a 2-to-1 ratio. Thus, a library can receive up to

$1,050 worth of new children’s books. After a library receives a grant, local sponsors (such as formal or informal Friends groups, civic or social organizations, local businesses, etc.) have four months, or longer if necessary, to raise their matching funds.

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