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Humanities Grant Proposal Review Opportunity, Fall 2011
UF Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere

Grant Proposal Review Opportunity

Faculty members in the humanities are invited to submit complete draft proposals (minus reference letters) by December 16^th for single-blind review by three UF referees with experience serving on grant review panels at the national level. Feedback will be returned by February 5^th, to enable revision and submission of proposals for spring 2012 deadlines. This opportunity is limited to 15 faculty members; in the case of over-subscription, preference will be given to those who did not participate in the Spring/Summer 2011 opportunity.

To participate, please RSVP by Dec. 9^th to Sophia Acord (skacord@ufl.edu)

Humanities Grant Support and Databases

The Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere grants resource pages have been reorganized and revamped, with new information on UF grant-writing resources, digital humanities, public humanities, and many more listings for internal and external funding opportunities for graduate students and faculty.

These activities are made possible with support from the CLAS Dean’s Office and the UF Office of Research.

This is being re-posted from NEH’s Office of Digital Humanities (ODH) website. New ODH programs are always worth re-posting!

Announcing a New Grant Program: Digital Humanities Implementation Grants

Jun 22
Written by: Brett Bobley
6/22/2011 12:57 AM

On Wednesday, June 22, at the Digital Humanities 2011 conference at Stanford University, the ODH officially announced our new grant program, Digital Humanities Implementation Grants (or DHIG, for short).

This program is designed to be a follow-on to our popular Digital Humanities Start-Up Grant program (SUG). As you know, the SUG program awards small grants and is designed to fund early, cutting-edge, experimental work that shows great potential. SUGs can also be used for small planning meetings, studies, or workshops.

But now that we’ve funded nearly 200 SUGs, we’ve heard a lot of feedback from the field that the timing is right to offer a larger implementation program aimed at helping projects move beyond the start-up phase and into full implementation. Enter: DHIG!

The DHIGs offer a much larger maximum grant (from $100K to $325K). Projects applying for a DHIG grant should be able to demonstrate that they’ve already successfully completed an earlier start-up phase and are now ready to build on it with a larger grant.

In the past, we had two SUG deadlines per year. We are now moving to one SUG deadline (this year September 27, 2011) and one DHIG deadline (this year January 24, 2012).

Sustainability and Data Management Plans

Also new of note: the DHIG program requires that every applicant include both a sustainability plan and a data management plan. You’ll note that we have aligned our data management requirements with those of the National Science Foundation to enable you to take advantage of data management resources that your institution may have already developed for applying to the NSF. Please check out the guidelines for more information on this. Over the course of the next year, we will be adding similar requirements to the other ODH grant programs.

If you are interested in applying, please check out the full guidelines [PDF]. As always, please get in touch if you have any questions. DHIG?

CLIR press release on the CLIR website and below:

Washington, DC, April 11, 2011—The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation has awarded the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) $117,567 for research on how to build capacity for data curation within disciplines. The project will be managed by CLIR’s Digital Library Federation (DLF).

Most graduate programs in the sciences, social sciences, and humanities are not well prepared to cultivate the data management skills of their students, or sometimes even to teach them why such skills are important to the survival of their fields of study. In every discipline, at least some professionals must come to grasp the complex demands related to the creation, access, reuse, and preservation of digital research data, which have been the purview of the library and information technology professions, and of schools of library, information, and computer science.

“Developing and maintaining skills in data curation must become central to the professional identities of specialists in each discipline if our educational institutions are to build robust, efficient, and appropriately integrated online environments for future research, teaching, and learning,” said CLIR President Chuck Henry. “We are grateful to the Sloan Foundation for the opportunity to deepen our understanding of the landscape that is developing around digital curation practice and education.”

The project will consist of three interrelated activities. The first will be an environmental scan of professional development needs, and of education and training opportunities for digital curation in the academy. The second will be an anthropological study of five sites where digital curation activities are under way. The third will be a report that analyzes the results of the two research efforts and includes a proposal, informed by the findings, for amending the curriculum for CLIR’s Postdoctoral Fellowship in Academic Libraries program.

Chuck Henry, along with DLF Program Director Rachel Frick and Bryn Mawr College Chief Information Officer and Director of Libraries Elliott Shore, will serve as the project’s principal investigators. Shore is also lead instructor for the Postdoctoral Fellowship program and CLIR presidential fellow.

CLIR (www.clir.org) is an independent, nonprofit organization whose mission is to expand access to information, however recorded and preserved, as a public good. In partnership with other institutions, CLIR helps create services that expand the concept of “library” and supports the providers and preservers of information. The Digital Library Federation (www.diglib.org) is a consortium of libraries and related agencies that are pioneering the use of electronic-information technologies to extend their collections and services.

News Release

The University of Florida Center for Latin American Studies will sponsor Library Travel Research Grants for summer 2010. Their purpose is to enable faculty researchers from other U.S. colleges and universities to use the extensive resources of the Latin American Collection in the University of Florida Libraries, thereby enhancing its value as a national resource.  The grants are funded by a Title VI National Resource Center grant from the U.S. Department of Education.

Six or more travel grants of up to $1250 each will be made to cover travel and lodging expenses. Grantees are expected to remain in Gainesville for at least one week and, following their stay, submit a brief (2-3 pp.) report on how their work at UF Libraries enriched their research project and offer suggestions for possible improvements of the Latin American Collection. Researchers’ work at the Latin American Collection may be undertaken at any time during the summer, starting May 15, 2010.  All travel must be completed by August 14, 2010. At least one grant will be made to a scholar from a Florida college or university.  Applicants must be US citizens or permanent residents.

The UF Libraries Latin American Collection

The UF Libraries’ Latin American Collection contains one of the finest collections of Latin American materials in the U.S. It consists of over 500,000 volumes, some 50,000 reels of microfilm (many unique and very scarce), renowned newspaper and government-document holdings, and a growing access to computer-based electronic information resources.

Areas of collection focus include all disciplines, although literature, the humanities and the social sciences are best represented. All regions of Latin America are also well represented, with the Caribbean, Circum-Caribbean and Brazil having the deepest holdings, while the Andean and Southern Cone regions are developing strengths. Particularly noteworthy are the Collection’s holdings on religion in the Americas, including Santeria, Rastafarianism and the Ralph Della Cava Collection on Padre Cícero and Brazilian popular religion. Other units of the UF Libraries also contain important resources and researchers are encouraged to utilize them as well. The UF Map Library houses approximately 500,000 maps and atlases, some 50,000 of which deal with Latin American topics. The Science Library has important book and journal holdings on agriculture, tropical conservation, and development. The Special Collections Department has manuscript holdings such as the Rochambeau, Jeremie and the Braga Brothers Sugar Company papers, and the newly acquired Ramón Figueroa Collection of Mexican and Cuban film posters.

Information on the UF Latin American Collection is available here. You can also e-mail Richard Phillips, Director of the Latin American Collection, for further information.

Application Procedure

All applications must be filed electronically. To apply for a Library Travel Grant, send a letter of intent, brief library research proposal, travel budget, and CV to:

Hannah Covert, Executive Director
Center for Latin American Studies
319 Grinter Hall
telephone: 352-392-0375, Ext. 825
e-mail: hcovert@latam.ufl.edu

Application Deadline: March 2, 2010