The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded a $1.25 million Project Grant to the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Foundation under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access federal grant program (CFDA 45.149). The funding will support the Foundation's implementation of a digital preservation and enhanced access strategy for its Interviews: An Oral History of Television collection from June 2022 through May 2025. The collection comprises over 3,000 hours...
The Maine State Library received a two-year, $447,150 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the agency's Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149). The grant will support the Maine Digital Newspaper Program to digitize historical newspapers from Maine with a focus on titles related to Franco Americans and the labor movement. Over the grant period from September 2022 through August 2024, the Maine State Library as prime...
This Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) provides $155,090 to Appalshop, Inc. to preserve and improve access to its archival collections relating to Appalachian history and culture. Through digitization efforts of photographic negatives from 1935 to 1955 and 16mm archival films, as well as purchasing scanning equipment, the award supports enhancing public access to these...
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $350,000 Project Grant under the Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) to the Northeast Document Conservation Center (NEDCC), a nonprofit preservation organization. Through this 2-year award, NEDCC will provide a range of preservation services and training resources to support the long-term care and stewardship of paper-based, photographic, audiovisual, and digital collections at cultural institutions across the...
The Maine State Library has been awarded a $261,184 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) National Digital Newspaper Program to digitize 100,000 pages of historical newspapers from Maine over a two-year period from September 2024 to August 2026. This project, titled "Maine Digital Newspaper Program Proposal: 2023-2026 NDNP Cycle," aims to expand public access to stories and perspectives of Maine's diverse communities by digitizing news content, including...
The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded a $645,792 Project Grant to the Maine Humanities Council Corp through the Promotion of the Humanities Federal/State Partnership program (CFDA 45.129). This funding will support the Council's delivery of local, statewide, and regional public humanities programming from June 2021 through April 2023. As the state's nonprofit organization for the humanities, the Maine Humanities Council will utilize the federal funding to promote humanities-based...
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $449,733 five-year Project Grant (CFDA 45.129 - Promotion of the Humanities Federal/State Partnership) to the Maine Humanities Council Corp. The grant, effective November 1, 2024 through October 31, 2029, supports the Council's delivery of humanities-based subawards and public programming tailored to the needs, resources, and interests of communities across Maine. The Council's grant-funded initiatives aim to use the humanities as a...
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $345,896 Humanities Collections and Reference Resources implementation grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) to the Internet Archive, a non-profit digital library organization. The two-year grant, effective July 1, 2024 through June 30, 2026, will fund the digitization of and permanent online access to nine local history collections from seven public libraries across the...
The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded New York University $348,580 under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) from September 1, 2023 through August 31, 2025. As part of their Master's degree in Moving Image Archiving and Preservation, NYU students will gain practical experience through course projects and three internships over the course of their studies. The internships will improve the condition and accessibility of unique media...
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $324,997 Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access Project Grant to the Trustees of Dartmouth College for the New Hampshire Digital Newspaper Project. This 2-year project, commencing on September 1, 2024, will digitize and make available 100,000 pages of historical newspapers from New Hampshire through the National Digital Newspaper Program. The project will be led by the Dartmouth Libraries in partnership with the...