Project Grant PG28782122

The Rosenbach Museum and Library received a $149,600 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program. The grant will support the organization's efforts to steward and provide digital access to its rare books and manuscripts collection. Key activities to be undertaken include cataloging the majority of the rare book and manuscript collection, migrating records to a cloud-based collection...

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded Newberry Library a $347,130 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access (CFDA 45.149) program on January 1, 2026, to improve flat file storage infrastructure for its rare and historical maps collection. The project, scheduled for completion by March 31, 2028, encompasses the rehousing and preservation of approximately 12,000 rare and historical maps currently stored in failing flat file furniture....

The Northeast Document Conservation Center, Inc. (NEDCC) received a two-year, $350,000 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program. Through this funding, NEDCC will provide free preservation training, resources and assessments to ensure the long-term care of humanities collections. Specific deliverables include eight hands-on disaster preparedness workshops, eight general preservation...

The Rosenbach Museum & Library received a $330,977 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access (CFDA 45.149) program. The two-year grant funded a comprehensive lighting upgrade project to protect and preserve the museum's 400,000-item collection of rare books, manuscripts, and fine art. The project expanded on previous planning efforts and aimed to upgrade, modernize, and automate the artificial...

The New York Public Library (NYPL) received a $167,683 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) to create a Research Libraries Collection Spaces Construction Design Standard (RLDS). The RLDS will establish design standards to guide the construction and renovation of over 560,000 square feet of collections storage, reading rooms, and workspaces across NYPL's three research centers and...

The Library Company of Philadelphia was awarded a $700,000 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149). Over a three-year period from January 2023 to December 2025, the grant will fund the Library Company Papers Project to comprehensively review, process, and digitize the Library Company's institutional records from 1731 to 1880. This will preserve early American history contained...

The Library of Virginia Foundation received $349,888 from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) on January 1, 2026, to upgrade storage infrastructure for its fourth-floor stacks. This Phase 1 project, scheduled for completion by December 31, 2027, will replace existing storage furniture housing the Library's state and local government records, private papers, and special collections holdings. The...

The University of Utah will enhance catalog records for visual books held in libraries through the National Endowment for the Humanities' Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access federal grant program (CFDA 45.149). Funded at $285,706 for the period of June 1, 2023 to May 31, 2026, this Project Grant will support hiring a full-time project assistant to add metadata to OCLC catalog records. The Preservation and Access program aims to ensure long-term intellectual access...

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $212,979 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) to the Midwest Art Conservation Center, Inc. (MACC), a non-profit organization. This 2-year grant, awarded on March 1, 2024, will support the development of tools for remote risk assessment and emergency planning to improve the sustainability and resilience of public art collections nationwide. Specifically, the grant...

Federal Grant Award Summary Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) received a $286,330 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149), effective September 1, 2025, through August 31, 2027. The two-year implementation grant supports the arrangement, description, and digitization of key collections housed in RIT's Deaf Studies, Culture, and History Archives (DSA). RIT will hire a...