Digital Payback Grant Recipient:

Digital Preservation is proud to announce the recipient of our first Payback Grant is the St. Louis Jewish Community Archives, St. Louis, Missouri. The submission, The Book of Memories: History of St. Louis Jewish Institutions, covers Jewish organizations and cultural activities, 1776-1932, and contains 107 double page spreads. I will be contacting, Diane Everman, archivist, to arrange the details for digitization. Congratulations!

I wish to thank all those who have participated in our first Payback Grant. I have been honored, the last ten years, to have had the opportunity to work with many of you. Please know, this is my way to thank those who have dedicated your lives to preserve our history and heritage!

Our next Payback Grant deadline will be June 4, for submissions, and the recipient will be announced July 2, 2010. Those institutions, which have made submissions for our first grant, must to notify me by June 4th, if they wish these projects to be considered for our second Payback Grant. If I do not receive notification, I will assume you have made other arrangements for your current digitization projects.

Thank you for your participation!

Digital Preservation has over the years donated time and digital services to various organizations. Our contributions have been in honor of those individuals who have dedicated their lives to preserving our history.
To date, digital projects, receiving our assistance, has been a company choice and limited to a small number of locally know projects. To make this process fair and equitable, open to the entire archival community, Digital Preservation agrees to donate time and digitization services to any eligible organization wishing to participate in a digital project review.

We are offering, semi-annually, to digitize special collections material and artifacts, provide one hundred digital image captures, off-site, postproduction, Tiffs, Jpegs and the appropriate storage media, at no cost, for the selected institution.

Eligible organizations include Universities, Libraries, Archives, Museums, Historical Societies, Foundations, Religious and other related non-profits.
To participate interested organizations should submit a brief description of the digitization project they wish to undertake, why they consider it to be of historic relevance and contact information. A digital photo of a representative example of the source material is requested.

Organizations may submit more then one project for consideration. Submissions may be pilot projects for attachment to future grant applications. Organizations must reapply semi-annually.          

Name Email Phone Email a digital photo of the source material to bob@digpreservation.com or mail to: Bob Lyner Digital Preservation 2001 Mulberry Hill Lane Chesterfield, Missouri 63005

Organization Type Eligible Organization Types: University Library Archives Museums Historical Society Foundation Religious Other Non-Profit Organization Name Project Details Historical Relavance

 

Selection:
The project submissions will be reviewed by a three member selection committee and the organization selected will be entitled to one hundred digital image captures, postproduction, Tiffs, Jpegs and the appropriate storage media, at Digital Preservation’s location, St. Louis, Missouri. The selection will be posted on digpreservation.com
Friday, January 29, 2010.

Selection Criteria:
Historic Relevance 50%
Age & Condition of the original material 30%
Usage & Demand 20%