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From: Wurl, Joel <JWurl(a)neh.gov>
Date: Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 12:41 PM
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) provides support to the
nation’s libraries, archives, museums, and other cultural heritage
institutions to help enable long-term public access to significant
collections of books, manuscripts, photographs, art and artifacts, sound
recordings, moving images, and more through its program Humanities
Collections and Reference Resources (HCRR). This program, whose
antecedents date back to the 1960s, also supports the production of
reference tools, such as encyclopedias, historical dictionaries, and
atlases.****
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Beginning in 2011, NEH’s Division of Preservation and Access conducted a
formal evaluation of HCRR, focusing on grants made in the years 2000
through 2010. Staff surveyed 177 past awardees, providing them with
questions intended to elicit both quantitative and qualitative evidence of
project outcomes, often extending beyond the term of the grant itself. The
resulting study provides information that may be of broad value to the
cultural heritage community, including the impact of such grant projects on
the use of collections and resources, on programmatic infrastructure, and
on permanent job creation.****
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An article summarizing these
findings<http://www.neh.gov/divisions/preservation/featured-project/the-…
containing a link to the full report, has been posted on the NEH
website. We wish to express our gratitude to all who participated in this
survey and to the American public for its support. Please feel free to
share this announcement with anyone you believe might be interested. Thank
you.****
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Joel Wurl
Sr. Program Officer
Division of Preservation & Access
National Endowment for the Humanities
1100 Pennsylvania Ave. NW
Washington, DC 20506
phone: 202-606-8252 fax: 202-606-8639
email: jwurl(a)neh.gov ****
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