Subject: new round of Connecting to Collections offered Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 11:09:44 -0500 Message-ID: <B46BC0C8F6373F43B0A84089442FE921014D9A13@MEWMAD1P0129.enterprise.wistate.us> From: "Seymour, Janet I - WHS" <Janet.Seymour@wisconsinhistory.org>
List Serve members,
IMLS will be accepting another round of applications for Connecting to
Collections Bookshelf. This is a great resource for collections care and
management, and the application is fairly basic.
Please visit the link below to get more info on how to apply. Last round
included several WI recipients!
http://www.aaslh.org/Bookshelf/ <http://www.aaslh.org/Bookshelf/>
What is the Bookshelf?
The IMLS Connecting to Collections Bookshelf is part of a multi-year,
multi-faceted IMLS national initiative to raise public awareness and
inspire action to care for the collections held in public trust by
libraries and museums throughout the United States. The initiative is
grounded in the results of A Public Trust at Risk: The Heritage Health
Index Report on the State of America's Collections, which reports that a
stunning 190 million objects in U.S. collections need conservation
treatment.
The Institute of Museum and Library Services is dedicated to providing
resources and encouragement to ensure that future generations are able
to connect to the rich cultural, scientific, historic, and aesthetic
insights and knowledge embedded in the nation's collections. The
Bookshelf is also made possible by the generous contributions of the
Getty Foundation and the Henry Luce Foundation, with additional support
from the Samuel H. Kress Foundation.
What does The Bookshelf contain?
The Bookshelf is actually three sets of resources. The Core Collection
set contains eleven publications that all awardees will receive. The
Living Collections set contains six additional resources that will be
distributed to those institutions that care for living, biological
collections. The Nonliving Collections set contains five additional
publications focused on specialized collections and on library
preservation issues. Awardees will receive either the Living or the
Nonliving Collections set, not both.
The Bookshelf includes books, DVDs, and other collections resources, as
well as a Guide to Online Resources and a User's Guide to all of the
materials. It addresses such topics as the philosophy and ethics of
collecting, collections management and planning, emergency preparedness,
and culturally specific conservation issues. Such texts as The National
Trust Manual of Housekeeping (published by the British National Trust in
2005), the Field Guide to Emergency Response (published by Heritage
Preservation in 2006), and Essentials of Conservation Biology (published
by Primack in 2006) are among the recent publications included in the
Bookshelf.
<http://www.aaslh.org/Bookshelf/>
Janet Seymour
Field Services Representative - Northern Region
Wisconsin Historical Society
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