new round of Connecting to Collections offered

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Seymour, Janet I - WHS (Janet.Seymour@wisconsinhistory.org)
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Subject: new round of Connecting to Collections offered
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 11:09:44 -0500
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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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