Preservation Assistance Grant

PLO:

PLO 1- Apply the field’s functional theories, principles, values, ethics and skills to everyday practice

Professional Standards/Competencies

ALA Core Competences

1D. Recognize the history, preservation, and dissemination of information in all its forms, and its impact on libraries

2A. Consider the issues related to the lifecycle of recorded knowledge and information, from creation through various stages of use, in relationship to material format and genre

2B. Apply the concepts, issues, and methods of collection management, which entails the lifecycle of materials from evaluation to long-term preservation and other curative practices

AAM Core Standards

Museum owns, exhibits, or uses collections that are appropriate to its mission
Museum legally, ethically, and effectively manages, documents, cares for, and uses the collections
Museum provides public access to its collections while ensuring their preservation
Museum has appropriate measures to ensure the safety and security of people, its collections and/or objects, and the facilities it owns or uses

AAM Code of Ethics

Collections in the museum's custody are lawfully held, protected, secure, unencumbered, cared for and preserved

Project Description

This preservation assistance grant assignment was the other major assignment of the LIS 60654: Preservation & Conservation of Heritage Materials course. After completing the preservation assessment, I used the results and recommendations from it to complete an application for a National Endowment for the Humanities Preservation Assistance Grant. The grant application included a description of the proposed project, in this case funding for improving the preservation of the Palmdale City Library’s Local History Collection, as well as a work plan, a list of supplies and equipment that would be purchased with the funding along with their costs, and a proposed budget.

The preservation assistance grant assignment provided me with invaluable hands-on experience in completing a grant application, including developing a project budget. Through this assignment, I learned how to analyze the needs of a real collection and to determine how best to meet those needs in the most cost-effective way possible.

Preservation Assistance Grant Assignment.docx

Preservation Assistance Grant

RR_Budget10_3_0-V3.0.pdf

Budget

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