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Subject: Endangered Archives Programme Call for Applications
Date: 21 Sep 2007
From: Marion Wallace
British Library
Endangered Archives Programme
Call for applications
The Endangered Archives Programme at the British Library is now accepting
applications for the next round of funding. Detailed information on the
timetable, criteria, eligibility and procedures for applying for a grant is
available on the Programme's website. The deadline for receipt of
preliminary applications is 2 November 2007.
The Programme has funded nearly 70 projects in 37 countries, totalling £1.7
million, since its establishment three years ago. The Programme is funded
by Arcadia, in pursuit of its general aim to support fundamental research
into important issues in the humanities and social science. The focus of
the Programme is on the preservation and copying of important but
vulnerable archives throughout the world.
The aim is to safeguard archival material relating to societies before
'modernisation' or 'industrialisation' had generated institutional and
record-keeping structures for the systematic preservation of historical
records, very broadly defined. The relevant time period will therefore vary
according to the society. The Programme is completely open as to theme and
regional interest, although applications concerned with non-western
societies are particularly welcomed.
The Programme's objectives are achieved principally by making a number of
grants to individual researchers to locate relevant collections, to arrange
their transfer to suitable local archival home where possible, and to
deliver copies to the British Library and a local institution for the
benefit of researchers worldwide. 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.
For the purposes of the Programme, archives will be interpreted widely to
include not only rare printed sources (books, serials, newspapers,
ephemera) and manuscripts, but also visual materials (drawings, paintings,
prints, posters, photographs), audio or video recordings and digital
data. In all cases, the validity of archival materials for inclusion in
the Programme will be assessed by their relevance as source materials for
the pre-industrial stage of a society's history.
The Programme does not offer grants to support the normal running
activities of an archive, although the Programme may offer support for such
items as costs directly related to the acceptance of relocated material.
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 the projects funded to date as well as application
procedures, please visit the Programme's website.
Web: www.bl.uk/endangeredarchives <http://www.bl.uk/endangeredarchives>
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