Partners

• Andrew W. Mellon Foundation makes grants in higher education, museums and art conservation, performing arts, conservation and the environment, and public affairs.
  
  

• The Art Conservation Department at the University of Delaware The Art Conservation Department at the University of Delaware administers both undergraduate and graduate programs. The department's faculty includes leading scientists and conservators in the treatment and preservation of paintings, works of art on paper, photographic materials, furniture, textiles, decorative, archeological and ethnographic objects, and architectural surfaces.
  
  

• Association of Southeastern Research Libraries (ASERL) is the largest regional research library consortium from research and state libraries in the United States.
   
  

• The Conservation Center for Art and Historic Artifacts (CCAHA) is a one-stop shop for every conservation and preservation need. Our conservators repair and stabilize books, photographs, and documents. Our preservation services staff works in the field, providing education programs and helping institutions plan for the future of their collections. We also offer digitization services, fundraising assistance, framing, and more.
  
  

• Cornell University Library Cornell Library is sharing its expertise in digital imaging, preservation, and management with librarians and archivists from the Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) Library Alliance in an initiative that is laying the foundation for an HBCU digital library. Important materials from the founding collections of ten HBCU institutions will soon be available online in a digital collection entitled "Celebrating the Founding of the Historically Black College and University." Some of its highlights include student yearbooks, early campus architectural drawings, and a rich assortment of photographs featuring choral groups, student sports teams, famous alumni, and churches (which often served as the first classrooms at several of these institutions).
  
  

• Council on Library Resources (CLIR) is an independent, nonprofit organization that works to maintain and improve access to information.
   
  

• Digital Library Federation (DLF) is a community of practitioners who advance research, learning, social justice, and the public good through the creative design and wise application of digital library technologies.

  
  DLF member institutions make the work of the DLF possible, supporting community efforts in a variety of research and prototyping, information sharing, staff development, networking, and catalytic initiatives. However, individuals are invited to participate in DLF working groups and events regardless of institutional status. DLF serves all who are invested in the success of libraries, museums, and archives in the digital age.
   
  

• Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) The mission of the Institute of Museum of Library Services is to advance, support, and empower America’s museums, libraries, and related organizations through grant making, research, and policy development.
  
  

• Kress Foundation The mission of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation (est. 1929) is to sustain and carry out the original vision of our founder, Samuel H. Kress (1863-1955). The Kress Foundation supports the work of individuals and institutions engaged with the appreciation, interpretation, preservation, study and teaching of the history of European art and architecture from antiquity to the dawn of the early 19th century.
  
  

• LYRASIS is a membership organization in service to libraries and the communities they serve.
  
  

• National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) is an independent federal agency created in 1965. It is one of the largest funders of humanities programs in the United States. Because democracy demands wisdom, NEH serves and strengthens our republic by promoting excellence in the humanities and conveying the lessons of history to all Americans. The Endowment accomplishes this mission by awarding grants for top-rated proposals examined by panels of independent, external reviewers.