Week 12: Money matters

Topics:

• Managing your budget - case study to fund a special project

• Working with little or no money

• Writing proposals and justifications

Reading:

• Giesecke – Practical Strategies for Library management chapter 10

• “Keepers, Users, and Funders: Building an Awareness of Archival Value” John J. Grabowski (originally published in American Archivist 55 (Summer 1992) 464-72) American Archival Studies: Readings in Theory and Practice edited by Randall C. Jimerson p619-629.

• “Funding” by Wesley Boomgaarden in Managing Preservation: A Guidebook

• The Foundation Center’s Short Proposal Writing Course.  Look at the information at:  fdncenter.org/learn/shortcourse/prop1.html

Optional reading: Gaining Independence: A Manual for Planning the Launch of a Nonprofit Electronic Publishing Venture. Washington, DC: Scholarly Publishing & Academic Resources Coalition, 2002  www.arl.org/sparc/GI/index.html

• Go to the NEH website http://www.neh.gov/. Read the website information about grants for Preservation and Access and Preservation Assistance.  Read the information about the grants and select one to apply for. 
• Download the form and the budget and try to fill it out for a ‘real project’ at a University or public library of your choice.  (You may select a Public Programs Consultation Grant if you feel daring.) 
• Bring the form and the budget with you to class, so we can discuss the grants.