[Anchasl-l] 2007 NCPC Preservation Grants

[Robert James]

2007 NCPC Preservation Grants


The North Carolina Preservation Consortium (NCPC) is accepting 
applications for preservation grants to assist NC libraries, archives, 
museums, historic sites, and other heritage organizations preserve their 
collections. These collections may include books, manuscripts, documents, 
journals, photographs, film, sound recordings, maps, architectural 
drawings, art, and artifacts.  The maximum award is $2,000.00. Application 
deadline is January 15, 2007.  Details and application are available on 
the NCPC Web site: http://www.ncpreservation.org/grants.html


2006 NCPC Preservation Grant Recipients:

The Forest History Society in Durham was awarded $1,500 for re-housing and 
stabilization of records in the American Forestry Association Collection. 
Now called American Forests, the association is the nation's oldest 
nonprofit environmental conservation organization.

The North Carolina State Archives Non-Textual Materials Unit, located in 
Raleigh, was awarded  $1,300 to fund a preservation needs assessment of 
audiovisual holdings including recordings on discs, audio tape, digital 
files, motion picture film, and video tape.

The Carol Grontes Belk Library at Appalachian State University in Boone 
was awarded   $1,600.00 to  support the reformatting of reel-to-reel 
videotapes in the Howard Dorgan Papers and Helen Lewis Papers in the W.L. 
Eury Appalachian Collection.  Dorgan and Lewis are two of the founders of 
the Appalachian Studies movement. 

The Corriher Linn Black Library at Catawba College in Salisbury was 
awarded $500 to purchase archival boxes for at risk collections in the 
College Archives.  Material in the Archives includes organizational 
records of Catawba College and collections from Reformed and Evangelical 
Churches in North Carolina. 

The Historic Hope Foundation in Windsor was awarded $1,100.00 to hire a 
consultant to perform a preservation needs assessment and provide 
guidelines for developing a disaster plan for collections at Hope 
Plantation.  The consultant will also be asked to identify strategies for 
cooperative disaster response with other institutions in the region. 



Robert James
Executive Director 
North Carolina Preservation Consortium 

Phone (919) 660-1157
Email   robert.james at duke.edu
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