For Public, Academic, and Special Libraries

The American Library Association in partnership with Spark Media, a Washington, D.C.-based production and outreach company, has announced an innovative library outreach program to enhance and increase the nationwide impact of Spark Media's documentary film, "Soul of a People: Voices from the Writers' Project." Major funding for the program has been provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities.

The film and library outreach program is designed to acquaint public, academic, and special library audiences with the story of the Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration.

Thirty libraries will be selected to receive a $2,500 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to present five different public outreach programs during the period of the national broadcast of "Soul of a People" in the Spring of 2009.

Libraries must register their institution at Grants.gov in order to apply. The deadline is July 11, 2008.

The application and guidelines are at: http://www.ala.org/ala/ppo/programs/currentprograms/soulofpeople/soulofpeople.cfm

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For Museums and Libraries

National Endowment for the Humanities America's Historical and Cultural Organizations grants support traveling or long-term museum exhibitions, library-based projects, interpretation of historic places or areas, interpretive Web sites, and other project formats that creatively engage audiences in exploring humanities ideas and questions.

Applicants should have already conducted preliminary consultation with scholars to help shape the humanities content of the project and with other programming advisers appropriate to the project's format. The next deadline is August 27, 2008. http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/AHCO_PlanningGuidelines.html