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From: "Ernest Everett Blevins" <>
Subject: [SUVCW] H-Public Net Fwd: Announcements (5)
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2007 19:15:32 -0400

Announcement Number 3 might be of interest to members. Number 4 might also
be as well but its in Australia.

Ernie
List Administrator

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From: Cathy Stanton/H-Public editor <>
Date: Aug 17, 2007 7:41 AM
Subject: Announcements (5)
To:

1) Scholarships to Museum Computer Network conference available
2) Request for Proposals-Cooperative Agreements for the National
Digital Newspaper Program
3) An Invitation from American Assn. of Museums and Johns Hopkins
University
4) American Battlefield Protection Program invites applications for
grants
5) The Annual History Lecture 2007: "Historical Re-enactments. Should
we take them seriously?" Sept. 14, 2007 (Sydney, Australia)

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1) Scholarships to Museum Computer Network conference available

MCN is delighted to offer the opportunity to apply for scholarships to
attend the MCN annual conference in November. The annual conference
provides
an occasion where you can meet and learn from experts on the technology
topics challenging today's museums. It's also a great time for
networking
and establishing new relationships to strengthen your resources for the
coming year.

SCHOLARSHIP BASICS (
http://www.mcn.edu/conferences/index.asp?subkey=1694 )

WHO?
This scholarship is available to museum professionals who meet one of
the
following
criteria:

- Employed at an institution with no more than 20 permanent staff.
- First-time MCN conference attendee.
- New to the profession with less than 2 years experience in the
field.

WHAT?
Five stipends are available to attend MCN's 2007 annual conference. Each
stipend includes the full conference registration fee and an additional
$500.00 toward hotel and travel.

WHERE?
BUILDING CONTENT, BUILDING COMMUNITY:
40 Years of Museum Information and Technology November 7-10, 2007
Chicago,
Illinois http://www.mcn.edu/conferences/

WHY?
The annual MCN conference offers tremendous personal and professional
benefits and rewards. Not only do attendees gain professional knowledge
from
sessions, they also have the opportunity to network with professionals
from
around the world.

Application Deadline is August 22, 2007. Apply today at
http://www.mcn.edu/conferences/index.asp?subkey=1694

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2) Request for Proposals-Cooperative Agreements for the National
Digital Newspaper Program

Apologies for cross-posting:

Posted at the request of the National Endowment for the Humanities,
Division of Preservation and Access. Please feel free to forward as
appropriate.

Request for Proposals-Cooperative Agreements for the National Digital
Newspaper Program (A Partnership between NEH and the Library of
Congress)

URL: http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/ndnp.html

Program Overview

· Award amount: up to $400,000
· Deadline for submission: November 1, 2007
· Award announcement: June 2008
· Grant period: 2 years beginning July 2008


NEH is soliciting proposals from institutions to participate in the
National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP). Ultimately, over a period of
approximately 20 years, NDNP will create a national, digital resource of
historically significant newspapers from all the states and U.S.
territories published between 1836 and 1922. This searchable database
will be permanently maintained at the Library of Congress (LC) and be
freely accessible via the Internet. [See the beta prototype Web site,
Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers at
http://www.loc.gov/chroniclingamerica/ .] An accompanying national
newspaper directory of bibliographic and holdings information on the Web
site will direct users to newspaper titles available in all types of
formats. LC will also digitize and contribute to the NDNP database a
significant number of newspaper pages drawn from its own collections
during the course of this partnership between NEH and the Library.

The NDNP will be implemented in several phases, gradually extending its
chronological coverage. Since 2005, awards to state projects are
supporting the selection and digitization of titles published in
California, Florida, Kentucky, Minnesota, Nebraska, New York, Texas,
Utah, and Virginia between 1880 and 1910. The Endowment intends to fund
projects in all states and U.S. territories provided that sufficient
funds allocated for this purpose are available. One organization within
each U.S. state or territory will receive an award to collaborate with
relevant state partners in this effort. Previously funded projects will
be eligible for continued support to digitize pages from new decades, as
the program increases its chronological span. During this phase of NDNP,
successful applicants will select newspapers-published in their state in
English between 1880 and 1922-and convert, primarily from microfilm,
over a period of two years, approximately 100,000 pages into digital
files, according to the technical guidelines
(http://www.loc.gov/ndnp/pdf/NDNP_200810TechNotes.pdf) outlined by the
Library of Congress.

NDNP builds on the foundation established by an earlier NEH initiative:
the United States Newspaper Program (USNP). Since 1982, the Endowment
has supported a cooperative, national effort to locate, catalog, and
preserve on microfilm American newspapers published from the 18th
century to the present. NEH has funded newspaper projects in all the
fifty states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin
Islands. When completed in 2009, USNP will have provided bibliographic
control to widely scattered newspapers and have preserved on microfilm
(to consistent national standards) selected titles from this vulnerable
corpus. LC has provided technical assistance for the USNP since its
inception.

NEH expects to award two-year cooperative agreements (of up to $400,000
each), depending on the availability of funds. The Guidelines for the
Request for Proposals are located at:
http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/ndnp.html . LC*s technical
guidelines are found at:
http://www.loc.gov/ndnp/pdf/NDNP_200810TechNotes.pdf .


For information about the application process, contact the Division of
Preservation and Access at 202-606-8570 or e-mail at
. The postal address is:

National Digital Newspaper Program
Division of Preservation and Access
Room 411
National Endowment for the Humanities
1100 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20506

Hearing-impaired applicants can contact NEH via TDD at 1-866-372-2930.

All questions relating to the technical guidelines should be directed
to LC staff at .

Laura Gottesman
Digital Reference Team
The Library of Congress
< http://www.loc.gov/rr/askalib/ask-digital.html >

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3) An Invitation from American Assn. of Museums and Johns Hopkins
University

Dear Colleagues:

Since 2004, the American Association of Museums (AAM) has been a
partner in
the "Nonprofit Listening Post Project" sponsored by the Johns Hopkins
Center
for Civil Society Studies. The Listening Post is an ongoing study of
major
developments in the nonprofit sector, with nearly a thousand
participants
drawn from a variety of different fields: children and family services,
elderly housing and services, community and economic development,
theaters
and museums.

AAM would like to invite your institution to represent the museum field
as a
"Listening Post." As a participant, your museum will be asked to
respond to
periodic "soundings" (short, on-line questionnaires) on topics such as
community partnerships, governance, and financial health.
The next sounding, which is scheduled for late-August/early-September
2007,
will be devoted to advocacy and public policy. Participating museums
will
receive early briefings on the results of this and future studies.
Typically, a museum's CEO serves as the primary contact with the
Listening
Post Project. Your institution does not have to be a member of AAM to
participate in the project but does have to be in the United States.

The Listening Post Project is exploring some of the most important
challenges that nonprofits face today -- such as fiscal pressures, the
growth of for-profit competition, and new demands for accountability --
as
well as the creative ways in which nonprofits are responding to these
challenges. The goals of the project include improving the ability of
nonprofit managers to understand the changes affecting their
organizations,
disseminating timely information and best practices, and improving
public
awareness of the nonprofit sector.

More information about the project is available at
<http://www.jhu.edu/listeningpost/>;. If your museum would like to serve
as a
Listening Post, please contact Phil Katz at AAM ( or
202-218-7687) or Nicole Feldhaus at Johns Hopkins University
( or 410-516-4363) OFF-LIST.

Thanks,
Phil Katz

Philip M. Katz
Assistant Director, Research
American Association of Museums


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4) American Battlefield Protection Program invites applications for
grants

The American Battlefield Protection Program (ABPP) of the National Park
Service invites Federal agencies, tribal, state, and local governments,
educational institutions, and nonprofit historical preservation and
other private sector organizations to submit applications for grants.
The purpose of this grant program is to provide seed money for projects
that lead directly to the identification, preservation and
interpretation of battlefield land and/or historic sites associated with
battlefields. In recent years grants have averaged about $32,300 per
award. Applications must be received in the ABPP office by January 18,
2008. Visit the ABPP website at www.cr.nps.gov/abpp for details, or
contact Kristen McMasters, grants manager, at (202) 354-2037, or by
e-mail at .


Kristen L. McMasters
Archeologist Planner and Grants Manager
American Battlefield Protection Program
1849 C Street NW (2255)
Washington, DC 20240

202-354-2037
202-371-1616 fax

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5) The Annual History Lecture 2007: "Historical Re-enactments. Should
we take them seriously?" Sept. 14, 2007 (Sydney, Australia)

Professor Iain McCalman in conjunction with the History Council of NSW
will present 'Historical Re-enactments. Should we take them seriously?'

Iain McCalman's encounter with re-enactment began in a television
series purporting to retrace the Endeavour voyage of Captain James Cook
along the Barrier Reef to Indonesia. For several of onboard, being
historians and able seamen under simulated 'eighteenth-century
conditions' proved so frustrating that they determined to explore
whether re-enactment could ever be historically valuable. In this talk
McCalman will discuss the popular appeal of re-enactment, some
scholarly criticisms of it, and offer some examples of how it can
perhaps be harnessed to good effect for both teaching and research
purposes.

When: Friday 14 September 2007, 6pm for 6.30pm
Where: The Mint, Macquarie Street, Sydney
Bookings: (02) 92528715,
http://www.historycouncilnsw.org.au/whats_on_annual.html

Cost: $40 non-members/$35 History Council of NSW or Historic Houses
Trust members, admission includes drinks and light supper following the
lecture.

Proudly sponsored by the Historic Houses Trust and the Wyndham Estate.
Places are limited. Bookings essential.

Zoe Pollock
Executive Officer
History Council of NSW
(02) 9252 8715 (phone)
(02) 9252 8716 (fax)
Email:
Visit the website at
http://www.historycouncilnsw.org.au/whats_on_annual.html


--
Ernest Everett Blevins, MFA • Blevins Historical Research
110 Evergreen Way • Villa Rica, Georgia 30180
• 770-456-1876

Historic Preservation Consultant -- Historical and Architectural Research --
Genealogical (Family) Research -- Preservation Planning and Documentation --
House History

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Society, Sons of the American Revolution, Sons of Confederate Veterans, Sons
of Union Veterans, and member of numerous other lineage and heritage
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