    [United States Government Manual]
    [June 02, 1998]
    [Pages 606-613]
    [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

    NATIONAL FOUNDATION ON THE ARTS AND THE HUMANITIES

    NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS

    1100 Pennsylvania Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20506-0001

    Phone, 202-682-5400
    Chairman                                          Kathryn (Kitty)
                                                              Higgins,
                                                              Acting
        Chief of Staff                                Alexander Crary
    Senior Deputy Chairman                            Scott Shanklin-
                                                              Peterson
    Congressional Liaison                             Dick Woodruff
    General Counsel                                   Karen Christensen

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    Inspector General                                 Ed Johns
    Deputy Chairman for Grants and Partnership        Karen Christensen,
                                                              Acting
    Deputy Chairman for Management and Budget         (vacancy)
    Director, Enterprise Development                  (vacancy)
    Director, Office of Communications                Cherie Simon
    Director, Policy, Research, and Technology        Olive Mosier
    Director, Guidelines and Panel Operations         A.B. Spellman
    Director of Administration                        Larry Baden
    Budget Officer                                    Ron Fincman
    Finance Officer                                   Marvin Marks
    Contracts and Grants Officer                      Donna DiRicco
    Administrative Services Officer                   Murray Welsh
    Director, Office of Human Resources               Maxine Jefferson
    Coordinator, Creation and Presentation Division   Jennifer Dowley
    Coordinator, Education and Access Division        Patrice Powell
    Coordinator, Heritage and Preservation Division   Daniel Sheehy
    Coordinator, Partnership, Planning, and           Ed Dickey
            Stabilization Division
    Director, Civil Rights                            Angelia Richardson
    Director, Information Management                  Andrea Fowler
    Council Coordinator                               Yvonne Sabine

    NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES

    1100 Pennsylvania Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20506

    Phone, 202-606-8400. Internet, http://www.neh.gov/.
    Chairman                                          William R. Ferris
    Deputy Chairman                                   Juan Mestas
        General Counsel                               Nancy Weiss, Acting
        Director of Enterprise and                    Ann S. Young Orr
                Congressional Liaison
        Director, Office of Planning and              Stephen F. Cherrington
                Budget
        Director, Office of Communications            Gary Krull
                Policy
        Director, Federal/State Partnership           Edith Manza
        Director, Division of Research and            James Herbert
                Education
        Director, Division of Public                  Nancy Rogers
                Programs
        Director, Division of Preservation            George Farr
                and Access
        Director, Office of Challenge Grants          Stephen M. Ross
        Accounting Officer                            Tony Banko
        Administrative Services Officer               Barry Maynes
        IRM Systems Officer                           Brett Bobley
        Equal Employment Opportunity Officer          Willie McGhee
        Grants Officer                                David Wallace
        Director, Office of Human Resources           Timothy G. Connelly
        Inspector General                             Sheldon Bernstein

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    INSTITUTE OF MUSEUM AND LIBRARY SERVICES

    Room 510, 1100 Pennsylvania Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20506

    Phone, 202-606-8536. E-mail, Imlsinfo@imls.fed.us. Internet, http://
    www.imls.fed.us/.
    Director                                          Diane B. Frankel
    Deputy Director of IMLS for the Office of         Elizabeth Sywetz
            Library Services
    Deputy Director of IMLS for the Office of Museum  Beverly Sheppard
            Services
        Director, Policy, Planning, and               Linda Bell
                Budget
        Director, Legislative and Public              Mamie Bittner
                Affairs
        Museum Program Director                       Mary Estelle Kennelly
        Library Program Director                      Robert Klassen
        Director, Research and Technology             Rebecca Danvers

    [For the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities statement of
            organization, see the Code of Federal Regulations, Title 45,
            Part 1100]

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    The National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities encourages and
    supports national progress in the humanities and the arts.

    The National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities was created as an
    independent agency by the National Foundation on the Arts and the
    Humanities Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 951). The Foundation consists of the
    National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the
    Humanities, the Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities, and the
    Institute of Museum and Library Services. Each Endowment has its own
    Council, composed of the Endowment Chairman and 26 other members
    appointed by the President, which advises the Chairman with respect to
    policies, programs, and procedures, in addition to reviewing and making
    recommendations on applications for financial support.
        The Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities consists of 20
    members, including the two Endowment Chairmen and the Director of the
    Institute of Museum and Library Services, and is designed to coordinate
    the activities of the two Endowments and related programs of other
    Federal agencies. Four members are excluded from the Federal Council
    when it is considering matters under the Arts and Artifacts Indemnity
    Act (20 U.S.C. 971).

    National Endowment for the Arts

    The National Endowment for the Arts supports the visual, literary, and
    performing arts to benefit all Americans by fostering artistic
    excellence, preserving and transmitting our diverse cultural heritage,
    making the arts more accessible to all Americans, and making the arts
    intrinsic to education.
    The Arts Endowment serves as a catalyst to increase opportunities for
    artists and resources for arts organizations. It promotes involvement in
    the arts by citizens, public and private nonprofit organizations, and
    States and local communities. The Endowment awards grants to nonprofit
    arts organizations in support of outstanding projects; provides
    fellowships to exceptionally talented American artists in selected
    fields; works to expand the Nation's artistic resources and promote
    preservation of the country's cultural heritage; and funds projects
    whose goal is to educate, formally or informally, both children and
    adults in the arts. The Endowment also disburses funds to State arts
    agencies and

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    local and regional organizations in order to promote broad dissemination
    of the arts across America. Its grantmaking is conducted through the
    following divisions: Creation and Presentation, Education and Access,
    Heritage and Preservation, Planning and Stabilization, and partnerships
    with State and regional arts agencies.

    Sources of Information

    Grants  Persons interested in applying for a grant in the arts should
    contact the appropriate program at the National Endowment for the Arts
    by calling 202-682-5400 for further information.
    Publications  A report of the National Endowment for the Arts is issued
    annually and may be obtained from the Superintendent of Documents,
    Government Printing Office, Washington, DC 20402.
        Information for prospective applicants may be obtained by requesting
    the publication entitled National Endowment for the Arts: A New Look.
    Contact the National Endowment for the Arts, Washington, DC 20506-0001.

    For further information, contact the Public Information Office, National
    Endowment for the Arts, 1100 Pennsylvania Avenue NW., Washington, DC
    20506-0001. Phone, 202-682-5400.

    National Endowment for the Humanities

    The National Endowment for the Humanities is an independent, grantmaking
    agency established by Congress in 1965 to support research, education,
    and public programs in the humanities.

    According to the agency's authorizing legislation, the term
    ``humanities'' includes, but is not limited to, the study of the
    following: language, both modern and classical; linguistics; literature;
    history; jurisprudence; philosophy; archaeology; comparative religion;
    ethics; the history, criticism, and theory of the arts; and those
    aspects of the social sciences that employ historical or philosophical
    approaches.
        The Endowment makes grants to individuals, groups, or institutions--
    schools, colleges, universities, museums, public television stations,
    libraries, public agencies, and nonprofit private groups--to increase
    understanding and appreciation of the humanities. Its grant-making is
    conducted through three operating divisions--Research and Education,
    Public Programs, and Preservation and Access, and through the Federal/
    State Partnership and the Office of Challenge Grants.
    Research and Education  Through grants to educational institutions,
    fellowships to scholars and teachers, and through the support of
    significant research, this division is designed to strengthen sustained,
    thoughtful study of the humanities at all levels of education and
    promote original research in the humanities.

    For further information, call 202-606-8200.

    Public Programs  This division strives to fulfill the Endowment's
    mandate ``to increase public understanding of the humanities'' by
    supporting those institutions and organizations that develop and present
    humanities programming for general audiences.

    For further information, call 202-606-8269.

    Preservation and Access  This division supports projects that will
    create, preserve, and increase the availability of resources important
    for research, education, and public programming in the humanities.

    For further information, call 202-606-8570.

    Federal/State Partnership  Humanities committees in each of the 50
    States, the Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, the District of Columbia, the
    Northern Mariana Islands, American Samoa, and Guam receive grants from
    the Endowment,

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    which they then re-grant to support humanities programs at the local
    level.

    For further information, call 202-606-8254.

    Challenge Grants  Nonprofit institutions interested in developing new
    sources of long-term support for educational, scholarly, preservation,
    and public programs in the humanities may be assisted in these efforts
    by a challenge grant.

    For further information, call 202-606-8309.

    Sources of Information

    Employment  For employment information, contact the NEH Job Line. Phone,
    202-606-8281.
    Grants  Those interested in applying for a grant in the humanities
    should request information, guidelines, and application forms from the
    Endowment's Public Information Office, Room 401, 1100 Pennsylvania
    Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20506. Phone, 202-606-8400.
    Publications  The annual report of the National Endowment for the
    Humanities may be obtained from the Endowment's Public Information
    Office, Room 401, 1100 Pennsylvania Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20506.
    Phone, 202-606-8400.
        Overview of Endowment Programs, which contains information for
    prospective applicants, may be obtained by writing to the Public
    Information Office, at the address given above.
        Humanities, a bimonthly review of issues in the humanities published
    by the Endowment, is available by subscription ($16 domestic, $20
    foreign) through the Superintendent of Documents, P.O. Box 371954,
    Pittsburgh, PA 15250-7954.

    For further information, contact the Public Information Office, National
    Endowment for the Humanities, Room 401, 1100 Pennsylvania Avenue NW.,
    Washington, DC 20506. Phone, 202-606-8400. E-mail, info@neh.gov.
    Internet, http://www.neh.gov/.

    Institute of Museum and Library Services

    The Institute of Museum and Library Services is an independent, grant-
    making agency which serves the public by strengthening museums and
    libraries.

    The Institute of Museum and Library Services was established within the
    National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities by the Museum and
    Library Services Act of September 30, 1996 (110 Stat. 3009-293), which
    amended the Museum Services Act (20 U.S.C. 961 et seq.). The Institute
    combines administration of Federal museum programs formerly carried out
    by the Institute of Museum Services and Federal library programs
    formerly carried out by the Department of Education. The Institute's
    Director is appointed by the President with the advice and consent of
    the Senate and is authorized to make grants to museums and libraries.
    The Director receives policy advice on museum programs from the National
    Museum Services Board, which is comprised of 14 Presidentially appointed
    members and the Director. The Director receives policy advice on library
    programs from the National Commission on Libraries and Information
    Sciences, a 16-member independent commission which advises the President
    and the Congress on library sciences. The Director is an ex officio
    member of the National Commission on Libraries and Information Sciences.
        In addition to providing distinct programs of support for museums
    and libraries, IMLS encourages collaboration between these community
    resources. The Institute's library programs help libraries use new
    technologies to identify, preserve, and share library and information
    resources across institutional, local, and State boundaries and to reach
    those for whom library use requires extra effort or special materials.
    Museum programs strengthen museum operations, improve care of
    collections,

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    increase professional development opportunities, and enhance the
    community service role of museums.
        IMLS awards grants to all types of museums and libraries. Eligible
    museums include art, history, general, children's, natural history,
    science and technology, as well as historic houses, zoos and aquariums,
    botanical gardens and arboretums, nature centers, and planetariums.
    Eligible libraries include public, school, academic, research, and
    special libraries. The Institute makes grants in 11 program categories.
    Library Grants to States  These grants improve electronic sharing of
    information and expand public access to an increasing wealth of
    information and services. Each State provides a 5-year plan to establish
    goals and identify priorities that address the purposes of the Library
    Services and Technology Act subtitle of the Museum and Library Services
    Act. Grants to States may be expended directly or through subgrants or
    cooperative agreements.
    Native American Library Services  This program provides small grants for
    core library operations of tribes and Alaska Native villages, technical
    assistance for these libraries, and enhancement grants to promote
    innovative practices in libraries serving Native Americans and Alaskan
    Native villages.
    Native Hawaiian Library Services  This program provides a single grant
    to an organization that primarily serves and represents Native
    Hawaiians.
    National Leadership Grants  This program awards grants, contracts, and
    cooperative agreements to enhance the quality of library services
    nationwide and to provide coordination between museums and libraries.
    Activities that may be funded include: education and training in library
    and information services; research and demonstration projects to improve
    library services; preservation or digitization of library materials and
    resources; and model programs of cooperation between libraries and
    museums.
    General Operating Support Program  This program awards unrestricted
    grants to museums for ongoing institutional activities. General
    operating support, often cited as the most difficult type of money to
    raise, helps museums enhance their educational services, strengthen
    collections care, and raise funds from other sources.
    Conservation Project Support Program  This program awards matching
    grants to help museums identify conservation needs and priorities and
    perform activities to ensure the safekeeping of their collections.
    Museum Leadership Initiatives Program  In 1998, this program offers
    cooperative agreements to institutions for projects to cultivate
    interaction between museums and community-based organizations. The
    program's focus may change annually.
    Museum Assessment Program  This program offers museums grants of
    technical assistance in three areas: institutional assessment,
    collections management assessment, and a public dimension assessment.
    Conservation Assessment Program  This program provides eligible museums
    with an alternative source of a general conservation survey, as an
    adjunct to the IMLS Conservation Project Support Program.
    Professional Services Program  This program offers cooperative
    agreements to professional-museum organizations to help their members to
    better serve the public.
    National Award for Museum Service  This program recognizes outstanding
    museums that provide meaningful public service for their communities.

    Sources of Information

    Electronic Access  Information about IMLS programs, application
    guidelines, and lists of grantees are available electronically through
    the Internet, at http://www.imls.fed.us/. E-mail, Imlsinfo@imls.fed.us.
    Grants, Contracts, and Cooperative Agreements  For information about
    applying for IMLS funding, contact the appropriate program office.
    Museums should contact the Office of Museum Services, Institute of
    Museum and Library Services, Room 609, 1100 Pennsylvania Avenue NW.,
    Washington, DC 20506

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    (phone, 202-606-8539). Libraries should contact the Office of Library
    Services, Institute of Museum and Library Services, Room 802, 1100
    Pennsylvania Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20506 (phone, 202-606-5227).

    For further information, contact the Office of Legislative and Public
    Affairs, Institute of Museum and Library Services, Room 510, 1100
    Pennsylvania Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20506. Phone, 202-606-8536. E-
    mail, Imlsinfo@imls.fed.us. Internet, http://www.imls.fed.us/.

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