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NHPRC Archives - Detailed Processing Projects

The National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC) supports projects to conduct activities to promote the preservation and use of America's documentary heritage essential to understanding of our democracy, history, and culture. This grant category supports detailed processing and preservation of collections of national significance. Detailed Processing Projects may include reformatting records onto microfilm or other media in order to ensure their permanence in the face of high demand. Applicants may process and create detailed descriptions at the series or file level. Such descriptions will improve user access to historical records and help preserve collections. If parts of collections deserve processing to the item level, applicants must provide specific justifications for this detailed degree of work and provide estimates of the percentage of collections to be processed to the item level.

For more information visit the NHPRC website. Deadline is October 1, 2007.

NHPRC Archives - Basic Grants

The National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC) supports archives and records projects to carry out fundamental archival activities that promote the preservation and use of America's documentary heritage essential to understanding our democracy, history, and culture. The Commission seeks proposals for projects that support backlog processing and collections cataloging, phased preservation, and/or collections development. Proposed projects must employ the best and most cost-effective archival methods. Activities included under Basic Projects may be any one or combination of the following: Basic Processing, Preservation Planning, Collections Development, and Establishing Archives.

For more information visit the NHPRC website. Deadline is October 1, 2007.

Traveling Exhibit: Encountering Latin America through your Library

The Latin American and Caribbean Library at the University of Illinois would like to promote community awareness of area libraries’ collections about Latin America. They are highlighting those collections in a traveling exhibit: Encountering Latin America through your Library and are asking public and school libraries to consider hosting the exhibit for 1-3 weeks. It consists of a colorful tabletop display, a variety of artifacts from the region, and several bibliographies of reference materials, children’s books, novels, music, and films. The exhibit and all the accompanying artifacts are free of charge, but the library is asked to cover the shipping costs (estimated at $20-50) to send the exhibit to the next library. For more information or to request that your library be added to the schedule, email ngonzale@uiuc.edu.

Illinois Immersion '07 Grants

The Illinois Library Systems Directors Organization announces six matching grants for Illinois Immersion ’07. The six grants are $300 each. The grants will be awarded to Illinois community college librarians to participate in the ACRL Information Literacy Immersion Program. The Immersion program will be hosted by CARLI with support from the Illinois State library in July 2007. Applications for the program are due February 28, 2007 for Illinois residents to have preferred consideration. As space permits, applications will be accepted until March 30, 2007. Information about the program and application instructions can be found at http://www.carli.illinois.edu/immersion07.html . Contact either Elizabeth Clarage, Director of Collections Services, CARLI, or Lorna Engels, Library Systems Coordinator, CARLI, for any additional information. They also may be contacted by phone at (toll-free) 866-904-5843.

Illinois OCLC User Group

Nominations Being Accepted for Illinois OCLC Users Group Board

The Illinois OCLC Users Group (IOUG) works to promote the usefulness of OCLC products in Illinois Libraries. If this sounds like something you or a colleague would be interested in, consider submitting a nomination for an open seat on the IOUG Board. Available positions include secretary (two-year term), two member-at-large seats (two-year term), and vice-chair/chair-elect (three-year term). IOUG is currently putting together a slate of candidates. Interested? Contact a member of the nominations committee: Debbie Baaske, Lynn Hammerlund, or Donna Schaal. Deadline is Monday, March 26.