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Library Grant Links and Awards

For Museums:

The Conservation Assessment Program (CAP) is administered through a cooperative agreement between the Institute of Museum and Library Services and Heritage Preservation. CAP provides eligible museums with a general conservation assessment of its collection, environmental conditions, and site. Conservation priorities are identified by professional conservators who spend two days on-site and three days writing a report.

The report can help your museum develop strategies for improved collections care and provide a tool for long-range planning and fund-raising.

Applications from eligible museums will be reviewed as they are received. The deadline is December 1st. See http://www.heritagepreservation.org/CAP/about.html for eligibility and application details.

For Public and Academic Libraries:

The American Library Association Public Programs Office and Nextbook, a gateway to Jewish literature, culture and ideas, are pleased to announce another round of grants for Let's Talk About It: Jewish Literature - Identity and Imagination, a theme-based reading and discussion series.

The themes are "Neighbors: The World Next Door" and "Modern Marvels: Jewish Adventures in the Graphic Novel."

Each library selected for the grant project will receive:

  • A $2,500 grant to support program costs and scholar honoraria.
  • Training for the library project director at a national training workshop where they will hear from project scholars, experts, and organizers, and receive a program planning guide, materials and ideas. (The next training workshop will take place Tuesday and Wednesday, April 1 and 2, 2008 in San Francisco.)

The application deadline is December 3.

For All Libraries:

The American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works (AIC) and Heritage Preservation joint Award for Outstanding Commitment to the Preservation and Care of Collections is presented annually to an organization in North America that has been exemplary in the importance and priority it has given to conservation concerns and in the commitment it has shown to the preservation and care of its cultural property.

Nominations are due December 15. For additional information, see: http://www.heritagepreservation.org/awards/aic.htm

For School Libraries:

The Laura Bush Foundation for America's Libraries helps school libraries by providing needed funding for book purchases. The Foundation gives selection preference to schools in which 90% or more of the students receive free or reduced lunches.

Grants of up to $6,000 are made to update, extend, and diversify the book collections of the libraries that receive them. The deadline is December 31. Details are at: http://www.laurabushfoundation.org/web2/index.htm.