Current Projects
Itinerant Archivist Grant Project
2008-2010
In December of 2007, the Pennsylvania Heritage Society, working in cooperation with the Pennsylvania State Historical Records Advisory Board and the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, was awarded $120,356 in NHPRC funds to leverage $60,688 in cash and $80,043 in-kind matching funds for a two-and-a-half year regrant project. The project seeks to demonstrate the effectiveness of an itinerant archivist in meeting the immediate, and planning for the long-term, archival and records management needs of county governments within the state of Pennsylvania.
In July 2010 the Pennsylvania Heritage Society (PHS), working in cooperation with the Pennsylvania State Historical Records Advisory Board (SHRAB) and the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission (PHMC), was awarded $68,550 in NHPRC funds to leverage $39,292 in cash and $47,791 in-kind matching funds for an 18-month project that will cover several collaborative initiatives, which include the Itinerant Archivist project.
The specific goals of the project are to:
- Provide the services of an on-site professional archivist to help determine the archival and records management needs unique to each individual county and formulate strategies to address those needs.
- Concentrate this on-site expertise in a number of areas including training and education; consultation; surveying and identifying records for destruction; compilation of disaster preparedness plans; grant-writing; and assessing current records storage areas.
- Demonstrate how the services of an on-site professional archivist can benefit local governments and make the State’s grant program, and overall archival and records management program, more effective.
To learn more about the progress of this project, click on the following reports:
State and National Archival Partnership (SNAP) Grant Project
2010-2011
In July 2010 the Pennsylvania Heritage Society (PHS), working in cooperation with the Pennsylvania State Historical Records Advisory Board (SHRAB) and the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission (PHMC), was awarded $68,550 in NHPRC funds to leverage $39,292 in cash and $47,791 in-kind matching funds for an 18-month project that covered several collaborative initiatives, including a continuation of the Itinerant Archivist program, financing CoSA institutional membership dues, Archives Month outreach activities, and subsidizing speaker fees for Fall MARAC 2010.
To learn more about the progress of this project, click on the following reports:
