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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Digitization grant opportunity!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) [mailto:ksmith@clir.org]
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<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, January 19, 2017 11:29 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Arlene Weible <ArleneWeible@oslmail.osl.state.or.us><br>
<b>Subject:</b> CLIR Invites Applications for 2017 Digitizing Hidden Special Collections Awards<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif;color:#333333">CLIR Invites Applications for 2017 Digitizing Hidden Special Collections Awards</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#333333">Washington, DC, January 19, 2017—The Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) is now accepting applications for 2017 </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333"><a href="https://t.e2ma.net/click/6omwq/2p8ufs/qwh1fe"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#333333">Digitizing
Hidden Special Collections and Archives</span></a></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#333333"> awards. The national competition, funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, supports digitizing collections of rare and
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#333333">Grants of between $50,000 and $250,000 for a single-institution project, or between $50,000 and $500,000 for a collaborative project, may be sought for projects
beginning </span><span class="e2ma-style"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#333333">between</span></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#333333"> January 1 and June 1, 2018.</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#333333">The Digitizing Hidden Collections program coheres around six core values:</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Scholarship: The program is designed to maximize its impact on the creation and dissemination of new knowledge.</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#333333;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Comprehensiveness: The program supports digitization projects that will provide thorough coverage of an important topic or topics of high interest to scholars, in ways that help those scholars
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Connectedness: The program supports projects that make digitized sources easily discoverable and accessible alongside related materials, including materials held by other collecting institutions
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Collaboration: The program promotes strategic partnerships rather than duplication of capacity and effort.</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#333333;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Sustainability: The program promotes best practices for ensuring the long-term availability and discoverability of digital files created through digitization.</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#333333;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Openness: The program ensures that digitized content will be made available to the public as easily and completely as possible, given ethical and legal constraints.</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#333333">The application process has two phases. The initial proposal round is open, and proposals are due by 5 pm Eastern time on April 3, 2017. The final proposal round
is by invitation. Only those applicants whose initial proposals have been approved by the program's review panel will be able to submit a final proposal. Information for applicants, including a link to the online application form, is available at </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333"><a href="https://t.e2ma.net/click/6omwq/2p8ufs/6oi1fe"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#333333">http://www.clir.org/hiddencollections/applicants</span></a></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#333333">.</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#333333">CLIR will hold webinars for prospective applicants on Thursday, February 2, and Thursday, March 2, from 2:00-3:00 pm Eastern time. More information is available
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