Clarion University 2013: LS 575 Digital Libraries
Group Grant Writing Project (Leigh-Anne Yacovelli & Natalie Shilstut)
Natalie and I were the only group of two; all other groups were composed of three people. Not bad for a first try! |
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Project objectives
Demonstration of:
~ strong selection skills for a digital collection
~ ability to work in a group to succeed on a grant-writing undertaking
~ strong content and writing style for grant
For this assignment, you are to work in groups. Your task is first to develop a work scenario where you would be employed (of course, hypothetically). The following are among the most common choices for this type of course: public library with a good historical collection, academic library, school library, museum or archive library, historical society.
Then envision a type of digital project that would be good for that setting. You do not have to own the items you are thinking of writing a grant for, but you should have some real examples in mind. So, if you wanted to do historic photographs, you might go look at several collections nearby one of the group members, so you would have good items to describe. You will want to look at many examples of projects on the web to get ideas. You are not allowed to simply describe a digital collection that already exists. You may, however, describe a real physical collection that is not yet converted into a digital library. You also may want to take parts of various collections you have knowledge of and use them to provide you an inspiration for a single collection description in your grant proposal. You will need to be able to give a physical description of the collection (you can essentially create the extent, number of items, etc., but the number you choose to digitize should make sense in terms of cost and time). Though your idea can be unique, it should be based on the fundamentals of good digital collection selection.
Once you decide on a setting and collection, you can start to shape your grant. One note of caution, if you use a real library for your setting, please change the name so if you show your grant proposal for job interviews or other purposes, it does not look provide what appears to be false information about that institution.
You will be working together to flesh out a good concept and to write the designated parts of a 2013 PA LSTA digitization grant (grant guidelines posted under assignments in D2L course content). Your ideas must make sense in the context of this grant (or, if your group feels strongly there is a better grant opportunity out there, please come to me early on and I can approve it). Part of your grade depends on how well you follow the guidelines of the grant. The group that has the best grant proposal will be “awarded” the grant and given five extra points per person as a result. (Though I reserve to right to adjust any individual grade if someone in the group is not pulling his/her weight).
Demonstration of:
~ strong selection skills for a digital collection
~ ability to work in a group to succeed on a grant-writing undertaking
~ strong content and writing style for grant
For this assignment, you are to work in groups. Your task is first to develop a work scenario where you would be employed (of course, hypothetically). The following are among the most common choices for this type of course: public library with a good historical collection, academic library, school library, museum or archive library, historical society.
Then envision a type of digital project that would be good for that setting. You do not have to own the items you are thinking of writing a grant for, but you should have some real examples in mind. So, if you wanted to do historic photographs, you might go look at several collections nearby one of the group members, so you would have good items to describe. You will want to look at many examples of projects on the web to get ideas. You are not allowed to simply describe a digital collection that already exists. You may, however, describe a real physical collection that is not yet converted into a digital library. You also may want to take parts of various collections you have knowledge of and use them to provide you an inspiration for a single collection description in your grant proposal. You will need to be able to give a physical description of the collection (you can essentially create the extent, number of items, etc., but the number you choose to digitize should make sense in terms of cost and time). Though your idea can be unique, it should be based on the fundamentals of good digital collection selection.
Once you decide on a setting and collection, you can start to shape your grant. One note of caution, if you use a real library for your setting, please change the name so if you show your grant proposal for job interviews or other purposes, it does not look provide what appears to be false information about that institution.
You will be working together to flesh out a good concept and to write the designated parts of a 2013 PA LSTA digitization grant (grant guidelines posted under assignments in D2L course content). Your ideas must make sense in the context of this grant (or, if your group feels strongly there is a better grant opportunity out there, please come to me early on and I can approve it). Part of your grade depends on how well you follow the guidelines of the grant. The group that has the best grant proposal will be “awarded” the grant and given five extra points per person as a result. (Though I reserve to right to adjust any individual grade if someone in the group is not pulling his/her weight).