[SOA] 2nd Date 3/5: NHPRC Digitizing Historical Records Grants: Conf. Call for Interested Parties

[Janet Carleton]

Date:         Wed, 13 Feb 2008 14:53:30 -0500
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From: Lucy Barber <LUCY.BARBER at NARA.GOV>
Subject: 2nd Date 3/5: Digitizing Historical Records Grants: Conf. Call for 
Interested Parties
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The National Historical Publications and Records Commission will be holding 
a conference call on March 5, 2008 to answer questions about its Digitizing 
Historical Records grants. In brief, these grants support: "The Commission 
seeks proposals that use cost-effective methods to digitize 
nationally-significant historical record collections and make the digital 
versions freely available on the Internet. Project must make use of 
existing holdings of historical repositories and be made up of entire 
collections or series. The materials should already be available to the 
public at the archives and described so that projects can re-use existing 
information to create metadata for the digitized collection."

The full announcement is available here: 
http://www.archives.gov/nhprc/announcement/digitizing.html. Applications 
are due on June 2, 2008.  NHPRC staff will review drafts if they are 
submitted by April 1, 2008.

The conference call will begin on Wednesday, March 5 at 4:00 PM Eastern 
Time and last one hour.  If you are interested in participating, please 
send an email to Nathan Sowry at Nathan.sowry at nara.gov. He will send you 
the information on how to participate.  We are limited to 25 participants 
in this call.  We hope this call will clarify issues and help people 
prepare competitive proposals.  We will send a summary of questions and 
answers to this list afterwards.

Please forward this email to other appropriate mailing lists (such as 
regional archival organizations, library communities, etc). It will also be 
posted on the EAD-listserv and the COSA listserv.


Lucy Barber
lucy.barber at nara.gov
202-357-5306
fax: 202-357-5914
Director for Technology Initiatives
National Historical Publications and Records Commission
National Archives and Records Administration
700 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Rm 106
Washington, DC 20408-0001

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   Janet M. Carleton --- carleton at ohio.edu --- 740/597-2527
Digital Initiatives Coordinator / Women's Studies Bibliographer
      Alden 235A, Ohio University Libraries, Athens, Ohio
                   http://www.library.ohiou.edu/ 
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