Humanities Collections and Reference Resources Program

Humanities Collections and Reference Resources Program is sponsored by National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). This opportunity supports mission-aligned projects and measurable outcomes.

New Guidelines for Humanities Collections and Reference Resources Program Now Available | National Endowment for the Humanities New Guidelines for Humanities Collections and Reference Resources Program Now Available Portrait, Clara Bow, undated. Gift of Frederika Tuttle Hastings and Helen Tuttle Votichenko. Courtesy of the Museum of the Moving Image, New York, NY Portrait, Clara Bow, undated.

Gift of Frederika Tuttle Hastings and Helen Tuttle Votichenko. Courtesy of the Museum of the Moving Image, New York, NY NEH’s Division of Preservation and Access welcomes applications for its Humanities Collections and Reference Resources (HCRR) grant program, with a deadline of July 20, 2017.

These grants support projects to preserve and create intellectual access to such collections as books, journals, manuscript and archival materials, maps, still and moving images, sound recordings, art, and objects of material culture. Awards also support the creation of reference works, online resources, and research tools of major importance to the humanities.

LP Jackets in the Frontera Collection Courtesy the Arhoolie Foundation Images and Documents related to Japanese Internment found in the California State University Libraries and Archives Courtesy of California State University, Dominguez Hills HCRR offers two kinds of awards: Implementation Grants -- $350,000 maximum, for up to three years.

Eligible activities include: arranging and describing archival and manuscript collections; cataloging collections of printed works, photographs, recorded sound, moving images, art, and material culture; providing conservation treatment for collections, leading to enhanced access; preserving and improving access to born-digital sources, including the updating of existing digital resources; creating oral history interview collections about war and military service in conjunction with NEH’s Common Good initiative (see below); developing databases, virtual collections, other digital resources, or project-specific tools, to codify information on a subject or to provide integrated access to selected humanities materials; preparing linguistic resources, such as historical and etymological dictionaries, corpora, and reference grammars (separate funding is available for endangered language projects in partnership with the National Science Foundation); and producing resources for spatial analysis and representation of humanities data, such as atlases and geographic information systems (GIS).

Aerial view of the Giza Necropolis, looking west Courtesy of Marcello Bertinetti/Archivio White Star and the Giza Project, Harvard University. Keter Kehunah, ve-hu, Sefer Yosipon, bi-leshon Ashkenaz (Crown of Priesthood, which is the Book of Josippon, in the language of Ashkenaz), published in Amsterdam, c. 1743.

Courtesy of the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research Barbara Sellars '35 and Edda Kriener '34 working in sculpture studio at Wellesley College. Courtesy of the Wellesley College Archives Demonstrator outside the State Steamship Lines, circa May 1969, during an event organized by Troy Perry and Jim Kepner.

Courtesy of ONE Archives/USC New for 2017-18: Partnership/Mentorship Opportunity In order to enhance access to humanities collections held by smaller institutions, HCRR Foundations grants offer an additional $10,000 (beyond the $50,000 maximum) to support inter-institutional planning and pilot activities.

Applicants may be either smaller institutions proposing to work with a larger repository or larger institutions proposing to collaborate with one or more smaller partners. This opportunity is intended to help foster collaborative relationships that could prove to be continually beneficial, beyond the duration of the project.

Partnerships or mentorships might be especially well suited for community-based cultural heritage initiatives but are not limited in geographic or topical scope. 1928 map of Portland Maine and Some Places Thereabout. Courtesy of the Osher Map Library at the University of Southern Maine "Students in an Entryway" (circa 1960).

James P. Brawley Collection. Image 133.

http://digitalcommons. auctr. edu/braw/133 Image courtesy of The Atlanta University Center Robert W.

Woodruff Library. Several of the most recent awards from the HCRR program are described on NEH’s Funded Projects database. Also, sample narratives, “frequently asked questions,” budget guidance, and other resources are available on the HCRR program landing page .

Kitty & Kay performing with guitar and mandolin. Used by permission of the University of Missouri-Kansas City Libraries, Dr. Kenneth J. LaBudde Department of Special Collections.

Kitty & Kay performing with guitar and mandolin. Used by permission of the University of Missouri-Kansas City Libraries, Dr. Kenneth J. LaBudde Department of Special Collections.

Support for the projects featured (in the images above) was awarded through the Humanities Collections and Reference Resources program from NEH’s Division of Preservation and Access: PW-50163-08 to the Museum of the Moving Image, Astoria, NY; PW-234707-16 to the Arhoolie Foundation, El Cerrito, CA; PW-234690-16 to the California State University, Dominguez Hills, Carson, CA; PW-234775-16 to the Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; PW-234783-16 to the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, New York, NY; PW-234837-16 to Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, PA; PW-50526-10 to ONE Institute/International Gay and Lesbian Archives, West Hollywood, CA; PA-50163-03 to the University of Maine, Orono, ME; PW-228169-15 to the Robert W.

Woodruff Library of the Atlanta University Center, Atlanta, GA; and PW-50866-11 to the University of Missouri Libraries, Kansas City, MO. Division of Collections & Infrastructure