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From: Barbara Paulson <bpaulson(a)toast.net>
Date: Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 11:43 AM
The Division of Preservation and Access at the National Endowment for the
Humanities announces a new preventive conservation grant program, Sustaining
Cultural Heritage Collections, with a deadline of December 8, 2009. The
program offers U.S. nonprofit museums, libraries, and archives, as well as
state and local governmental agencies and tribal governments with humanities
collections two kinds of awards:
*Planning and evaluation grants, with awards up to $40,000
These grants can help institutions assess risks to collections and identify
realistic approaches for mitigating them; examine passive and low-energy
alternatives to conventional energy-intensive systems for managing
environmental conditions; analyze existing climate control systems and the
performance characteristics of buildings and building envelopes to develop a
plan for improved operation, effectiveness, and energy efficiency; and,
evaluate the effectiveness of preventive conservation strategies previously
implemented, including performance upgrades to systems and building
envelopes. Planning and evaluation projects should involve an
interdisciplinary team appropriate to the goals of the project. The team may
consist of consultants and members of the institution’s staff and might
include architects, building engineers, conservation scientists,
conservators, curators, and facilities managers, among others.
*Implementation grants, with awards up to $400,000
These grants can support managing interior relative humidity and temperature
by passive methods such as creating buffered spaces and housing, controlling
moisture at its sources, or improving the thermal and moisture performance
of a building envelope; installing or re-commissioning heating, ventilating,
and air conditioning systems; installing storage systems and rehousing
collections; improving security and the protection of collections from fire,
flood, and other disasters; and upgrading lighting systems and controls to
achieve levels suitable for collections that are energy efficient.
Guidelines will be posted on the NEH Web site in early September. Please
contact the division for more information by emailing
preservation(a)neh.govor calling 202-606-8570.
Laura J. Word
Senior Program Officer
Division of Preservation and Access
National Endowment for the Humanities
1100 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W. Room 411
Washington, D.C. 20506
202/606-8570
lword(a)neh.gov
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