§ 17.125. Categories of support for Local History Project Grants.
An institution or organization applying for funding shall apply in one of the following grant categories. The examples provided for each category are only examples and do not include all eligible projects. Eligible costs include, but are not limited to, purchase of supplies, duplication expenses, preparation of materials, travel costs and speaker and consultant fees.
(1) Public education programs. Funding may be requested for the research, development and execution of public programs that present some aspect of Pennsylvania life, history or culture.
(i) Seminars, forums, lectures, videotapes and conferences.
(ii) Preparation and installation of exhibits.
(iii) Implementation of curriculum project and teachers’ guides.
(2) Research and writing. Funding may be requested for original research and writing on some aspect of Pennsylvania life, history and culture leading to books, booklets, publications, presentations, articles or papers. Examples are as follows:
(i) Oral history projects.
(ii) Archaeological reports and research.
(iii) Original research in the development of public programs listed in paragraph (1).
(iv) Development of guides for walking tours.
(v) Research on documentary and photographic collections.
(vi) Development of curriculum projects and teachers’ guides.
(vii) Preparation of nominations to the National Register of Historic Places including multiple resource and historic district nominations.
(3) Archives and records management. Funding may be requested for surveying, inventorying, preserving, arranging and describing, and making available historical records relevant to this Commonwealth.
(i) Types of projects which may be funded:
(A) Projects to ensure the preservation and use of valuable archives/historical manuscripts including special format materials, such as cartographic, pictorial, audiovisual and machine-readable records through accessioning new collections.
(B) Purchase of preservation supplies such as acid-free folders, microfilm and boxes.
(C) Microfilming of deteriorating records to ensure the preservation and wider availability of the information.
(D) Inventory and survey projects designed to promote the transfer of records to responsible repositories or to provide planning reports in support of the establishment of records programs/facilities or institutional conservation programs.
(E) Projects that support the arrangement and description of archival records or historical manuscripts.
(F) Preparation of guides to the holdings of a historical repository or to the content of a particularly significant collection.
(G) Programs for the education and training of archivists, records managers and manuscript curators.
(ii) Archives and Records Management Projects not eligible for funding:
(A) Projects involving records which are now closed to researchers or which will be held by institutions not open to the general public on a regular basis with a publically announced and adhered to schedule of at least 100 days per year.
(B) Projects involving newspapers and library books, including rare books.
(C) Records or office management projects which do not relate to normal archival functions or goals, such as projects for the creation of a new filing and shortage system for active office files.
(D) Projects requiring the item cataloging of each document. This type of project normally is given low priority unless specialized handling is essential and can be justified.
(E) Project funds supporting the purchase of office furnishings, shelving, cabinets, computers, software or microfilm cameras.
(F) Travel or individual training for project staff.
(G) Projects requesting funds for item conservation work or the production of copy negatives or reference prints.
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