The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) provides support to the
nation's libraries, archives, museums, and other cultural heritage
institutions to help enable long-term public access to significant
collections of books, manuscripts, photographs, art and artifacts, sound
recordings, moving images, and more through its program Humanities
Collections and Reference Resources (HCRR). This program, whose
antecedents date back to the 1960s, also supports the production of
reference tools, such as encyclopedias, historical dictionaries, and
atlases.
Beginning in 2011, NEH's Division of Preservation and Access conducted a
formal evaluation of HCRR, focusing on grants made in the years 2000
through 2010. Staff surveyed 177 past awardees, providing them with
questions intended to elicit both quantitative and qualitative evidence
of project outcomes, often extending beyond the term of the grant
itself. The resulting study provides information that may be of broad
value to the cultural heritage community, including the impact of such
grant projects on the use of collections and resources, on programmatic
infrastructure, and on permanent job creation.
An article summarizing these findings
<http://www.neh.gov/divisions/preservation/featured-project/the-division
-preservation-and-access-evaluates-the-impact> and containing a link to
the full report, has been posted on the NEH website. We wish to express
our gratitude to all who participated in this survey and to the American
public for its support. Please feel free to share this announcement
with anyone you believe might be interested. Thank you.
Joel Wurl
Sr. Program Officer
Division of Preservation & Access
National Endowment for the Humanities
1100 Pennsylvania Ave. NW
Washington, DC 20506
phone: 202-606-8252 fax: 202-606-8639
email: [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
Visit the NEH Website at www.neh.gov <http://www.neh.gov/>
Follow the Division on Twitter: @NEH_PresAccess
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