$4 Million Available for Digitization in 2015 Application Deadline is April 30th Let’s Apply Together! | Internet Archive Blogs

"Internet Archive wants to partner with you to bring your ‘Hidden Collections’ into the public domain and become part of a global digital library! The Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) with generous support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has launched Digitizing Hidden Special Collections and Archives: Enabling New Scholarship through Increasing Access to Unique Materials. This competition will award up to $4 Million to institutions, consortia and collaborative groups to digitize and provide access to collections of rare and ephemeral material with high scholarly value. CLIR endeavors that 'Digitizing Hidden Collections will enhance the emerging global digital research environment in ways that support new kinds of scholarship for the long term,ensuring that the full wealth of resources held by institutions of cultural memory becomes integrated with the open Web' (http://www.clir.org/hiddencollections/about-the-program).The focus of these grants is to bring entire collections into the public domain,while promoting strategic partnerships and best practices for ensuring preservation and accessibility that is both stable and enduring. Grants of between $50,000 and $250,000 for a single-institution project, or between $50,000 and $500,000 for a collaborative project may be sought for work beginning between January 1st and June 1st, 2016 and be completed by May 31st, 2019. (http://www.clir.org/hiddencollections/applicants) ..."