Monday 6th March 2018
The National Library of Australia has announced the 2018 Community Heritage Grants Program which is providing grants of up to $15 000 to assist in the preservation of cultural heritage collections of national significance.
Leader of The Nationals and Member for Murray Plains Peter Walsh said the program comes with the acknowledgement that all over the country significant traces of the nation’s history are deteriorating despite the best efforts of local communities to preserve them.
“The program is very broad and is focusing on not for profit organisations holding documentary heritage collections of national significance such as historical societies regional museums public libraries and indigenous and migrant community groups” Mr Walsh said.
A wide range of activities are covered by the grants include:
- Significant assessments of collections
- Preservation needs assessments of collections
- Purchase of archival quality storage materials
- Preservation training projects
- Conservation activities including cleaning treatment or rebinding
- Purchase and installation of environmental control and monitoring equipment
- Copying of material once originals have been preserved
- Cataloguing or collection management software
Applications close on 7 May 2018 and guidelines and the application form are available at nla.gov.au/chg/guidelines.
For further information or to discuss your application: chg@nla.gov.au 02 6262 1147
