GRANTS COMMITTEE ANNOUNCES RECOMMENDATIONS FOR 1997-1998 GRANTS

submitted by Bryan Corbett

The ASA Grants Committee is pleased to announce the results of its deliberations on the three grants programs it administers. The ASA Access to Holdings Program grants have been approved. Awards of the CCA Access to Holdings and Preservation Management programs are subject to the final approval of the Canadian Council of Archives.

CCA CONTROL OF HOLDINGS PROGRAM

City of Calgary Archives
Description and Physical Processing of Land and Housing Department records
$10,363.50

University of Calgary Archives
Communications Media Fonds - Photograph Series arrangement and Description Project
$5,994.20

City of Edmonton Archives
City Clerk's Department Special Committee Reports 1907-1966
$7, 915.00

Glenbow Archives
Canadian Petroleum Association fonds
$9,672.00

Legal Archives Society of Alberta
Calgary Law Firms Arrangement and Description Project
$5,100.00

Red Deer and District Archives
Red Deer Regional Hospital fonds
$4,100.00

University of Alberta Archives
Donald Ross Fonds Project
$9,315.00

Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies
Jimmy Simpson Family Fonds Arrangement and Description project
$8,250.00

ASA PRESERVATION MANAGEMENT PROGRAM

Archives Society of Alberta (on behalf of Athabasca Archives, Lutheran Historical Institute, Banff Centre Archives, and Medicine Hat Museum and Art Gallery Archives)
ASA Group Preservation Project
$19,182.98

Glenbow Archives
Nitrate Negative Duplication Project
$6,193.32

Provincial Archives of Alberta
Policy and Procedure Training and Development and Preservation Training Implementation
$6,765.00

University of Alberta Archives
Nitrat negative Conservation Project
$6,100.00

Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies
Whyte Family Photographs Storage Upgrade Project
$6,790.00

ASA ACCESS TO HOLDINGS PROJECT

Banff Centre Archives
Control of the Photographs from the Banff School of Fine Arts
$2,990.00

Calgary Public Library Local History Collection
Alison Jackson Photograph Fonds
$4,867.00

Jasper Yellowhead Museum
Weiss Collection, Oral History Tapes
$3,150.00

Medicine Hat Museum and Art Gallery
Southeast Alberta Regional Planning Commission Records
$5,000.00

Millet & District Historical Society
Millet and District Archives
$5,000.00

Red Deer and District Archives
County of Red Deer #23 School Division Fonds
$4,400.00

University of Calgary Archives
Arrangement and Description of Professorial Papers
$4,936.40

Wyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies
Leonard Leocock Fonds Processing Project
$3,975.00