Dear colleagues We would be grateful if you could forward the following information to your contacts as appropriate:
The Endangered Archives Programme at the British Library is now accepting grant applications for the next round of funding. Detailed information on the timetable, criteria, eligibility and application procedures is available on the Programme’s website. The deadline for receipt of preliminary grant applications is midnight GMT, 17th November 2017. Since it was established in 2004, the Programme has so far funded some 325 projects in 88 countries worldwide, with grants totalling over £8 million. The Programme is funded by Arcadia, in pursuit of one of its charitable aims to preserve endangered cultural heritage. The aim of the Programme is to contribute to the preservation of archival material worldwide that is in danger of destruction, neglect or physical deterioration. The endangered archival material will normally be located in countries where resources and opportunities to preserve such material are lacking or limited. The Programme’s objectives are achieved principally by awarding grants to applicants to locate relevant endangered archival collections, where possible to arrange their transfer to a suitable local archival home, and to deposit digital copies with local institutions and the British Library. The digital collections received by the British Library are made available on the Programme’s website for all to access, with over 6 million images and more than 25,000 sound recordings available online. Pilot projects are particularly welcomed, to investigate the survival of archival collections on a particular subject, in a discrete region, or in a specific format, and the feasibility of their recovery. To be considered for funding under the Programme, the archival material should relate to a ‘pre-modern' period of a society's history. There is no prescriptive definition of this, but it may typically mean, for instance, any period before industrialisation. The relevant time period will therefore vary according to the society. For the purposes of the Programme, the term ‘archival material’ is interpreted widely to include rare printed books, newspapers and periodicals, audio and audio-visual materials, photographs and manuscripts. The Programme is keen to enhance local capabilities to manage and preserve archival collections in the future and it is essential that all projects include local archival partners in the country where the project is based. Professional training for local staff is one of the criteria for grant application assessment, whether it is in the area of archival collection management or technical training in digitisation. At the end of the project, equipment funded through the Programme remains with the local archival partner for future use. The Programme is administered by the British Library and applications are considered in an annual competition by an international panel of historians and archivists. For further details of application procedures and documentation as well as EAP projects and collections, please visit the Programme’s website: http://eap.bl.uk/ Web: http://eap.bl.uk/ Email: endangeredarchi...@bl.uk<mailto:endangeredarchi...@bl.uk> With thanks Ruth Hansford For the EAP Endangered Archives Programme British Library 96 Euston Road<https://maps.google.com/?q=96+Euston+Road%0D+London+NW1+2DB&entry=gmail&source=g> London NW1 2DB<https://maps.google.com/?q=96+Euston+Road%0D+London+NW1+2DB&entry=gmail&source=g> Tel: +44 (0)20 7412 7623<tel:+44%2020%207412%207623> endangeredarchi...@bl.uk<mailto:endangeredarchi...@bl.uk> http://eap.bl.uk<http://eap.bl.uk/> Thank you Laila Hussein Moustafa Assistant Professor | Middle Eastern and North African Studies Librarian http://www.library.illinois.edu/ias/Databases/MiddleEastern.html<https://webmail.illinois.edu/owa/14.3.319.2/scripts/premium/redir.aspx?C=uKaAo_zXgoV-AgAh7ffv00PpayDqete4wzcmGMDoMAJhU3_kzFXUCA..&URL=http%3a%2f%2fwww.library.illinois.edu%2fias%2fDatabases%2fMiddleEastern.html> University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign- International and Area Studies Library International Advisory Panel in Endangered Archives Programme- British Library http://eap.bl.uk/pages/grants.html
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