Grants

This program is designed to assist Native American tribes in improving core library services for their communities. Reflecting IMLS’s agency-level goals of championing lifelong learning, strengthening community engagement, and advancing collections stewardship and access, the goals for this program are to:

• Improve digital services to support needs for education, workforce development, economic and business development, health information, critical thinking skills, and digital literacy skills.
• Improve educational programs related to specific topics and content areas of interest to library patrons and community-based users.
• Enhance the preservation and revitalization of Native American cultures and languages.

Recordings at Risk is a national regranting program administered by CLIR to support the preservation of rare and unique audio, audiovisual, and other time-based media of high scholarly value through digital reformatting. Awards cover costs of preservation reformatting for fragile and/or obsolete time-based media content by qualified external service providers. Eligible media may include, but are not necessarily limited to, magnetic audio and video tape, grooved discs, wax cylinders, wire recordings, and film (with or without sound).

This Institute of Museum and Library Services Grant is designed to support small museums’ projects that serve the public. Digital preservation projects would apply to the following criteria:

• Digital Learning Resources
• Collections Management, Curation, Care and Conservation
• Exhibitions
• Collections Stewardship and Access
• Institutional Capacity

This Institute of Museum and Library Services Grant is designed to build the capacity of African American Museums. Digital preservation projects would apply to the following criteria:

• Build Institutional Capacity
• Increase Access to Museum and Archival Collections at African American Museums and Historically Black Colleges and Universities

This Institute of Museum and Library Services Grant is designed to support projects of museums of all sizes that strengthen their ability to serve their public. Digital preservation projects would apply to the following criteria:

• Digital Learning Resources
• Collections Management, Curation, Care and Conservation
• Exhibitions
• Collections Stewardship and Access
• Community Engagement

This Institute of Museum and Library Services Grant is designed to support projects that address critical needs of the museum field. Digital preservation projects would apply to the following criteria:

• Collections Management, Curation, Care and Conservation
• Build Institutional Capacity
• Collections Stewardship and Access
• Community Engagement

This Institute of Museum and Library Services Grant is designed to support Native Hawaiians in sustaining heritage, culture and knowledge. Digital preservation projects would apply to the following criteria:

• Sustaining Heritage, Culture and Knowledge
• Organizational Capacity Building
• Collections Stewardship