[ARSCLIST] ARSC Preservation Grants Program 2008

[Bill Klinger <klinger@xxxxxxxxx>]

The following message has been posted by the Outreach Committee of the 
Association for Recorded Sound Collections (ARSC). If you have any 
questions, please click on the link or e-mail address below.

--- ARSC PRESERVATION GRANTS PROGRAM ---
Deadline for receipt of applications: December 15, 2007


The ARSC Program for the Preservation of Classical Music Historical 
Recordings was founded by Al Schlachtmeyer and the ARSC Board of Directors 
to encourage and support the preservation of historically significant sound 
recordings of Western Art Music by individuals and organizations. (This 
program is separate from the ARSC Research Grants Program, which supports 
scholarship and publication in the fields of sound recording research and 
audio preservation.)

The ARSC Program for the Preservation of Classical Music Historical 
Recordings will consider funding:

-- Projects involving preservation, in any valid and reasonable fashion, 
such as providing a collection with proper climate control, moving a 
collection to facilities with proper storage conditions, re-sleeving a 
collection of discs, setting up a volunteer project to organize and 
inventory a stored collection, rescuing recordings from danger, copying 
recordings from endangered or unstable media, etc.

-- Projects promoting public access to recordings.

-- Projects involving commercial as well as private, instantaneous 
recordings.

-- Projects involving collections anywhere in the world. (Non-U.S. 
applicants are encouraged to apply.)

The program is administered by an ARSC Grants Committee including the 
chairman, a member of the ARSC Technical Committee, a member of the ARSC 
Associated Audio Archives Committee, and an expert on classical music.

Grant amounts generally range from $2,000 to $10,000. Grant projects should 
be completed within 24 months. Written notification of decisions on projects 
will be made approximately three months after the submission deadline.

Send completed applications to: Richard Warren Jr., ARSC Grants Committee 
Chair, Historical Sound Recordings, Yale Music Library, P.O. Box 208240, New 
Haven, CT 06520-8240, USA. Grant applications must be received by December 
15, 2007.

For further details, guidelines, and application instructions, visit:
http://www.arsc-audio.org/preservationgrants.html .

Questions about the Preservation Grants Program should be directed to Mr. 
Warren at richard.warren@xxxxxxxx .