NCPC Preservation Grants

2006 Preservation Grants, North Carolina Preservation Consortium

Forest History Society $1,500.00

The Forest History Society in Durham, North Carolina, was awarded funding to re-house and stabilize one of its cornerstone collections, the records of the American Forestry Association (now called American Forests) the nation's oldest nonprofit conservation organization."

North Carolina State Archives, Non-Textual Materials Unit $1,300.00

The North Carolina State Archives Non-Textual Materials Unit, located in Raleigh, was awarded this grant to fund a preservation needs assessment of AV holdings including disc recordings, audio tape recordings, digital sound recordings, motion picture film, and video tape.

Carol Grotnes Belk Library, Appalachian State University $1,600.00

The Carol Grotnes Belk Library at Appalachian State University, in Boone, North Carolina, was awarded this grant to support the reformatting of obsolete reel-to-reel videotapes in the W.L. Eury Appalachian Collection, primarily videotapes of the Howard Dorgan and Helen Lewis papers. Dorgan and Lewis are two of the founders of the Appalachian Studies movement. The Dorgan videotapes document interviews with Old Regular and Primitive Baptists and the Lewis videotapes are interviews with Welsh coal miners.

Corriher Linn Black Library, Catawba College $500

The Corriher Black Library at Catawba College, in Salisbury, North Carolina, was awarded a $500 grant to purchase archival boxes for at risk collections in the College Archives. Material in the Archives includes organizational records of Catawba College as well as documents from the Reformed and Evangelical Churches and the Poetry Council of North Carolina. This NCPC grant will enable project staff to act on recommendations from a 2004 preservation assessment funded by the National Historical Publications and Record Commission.

Historic Hope Foundation $1,100.00

The Historic Hope Foundation in Windsor, North Carolina, was awarded a grant to hire a consultant to perform a preservation needs assessment and provide guidelines for developing a disaster plan for collections at Hope Plantation. The consultant will also be asked to identify strategies for cooperative disaster response with other institutions in the region.