[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, I[email protected]. 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, [email protected]. 
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 
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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, I[email protected].
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, I[email protected]. Internet, http://www.imls.fed.us/.

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