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Re: Funding
I hope Catherine will accept my flippant response as the humor I intended.
I often hear how the university should be run like a business. And to
judge by upper administrative salaries and other indications, we are doing
so more every day. This was just another example.
---Terry
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Terry Abraham Special Collections, University of Idaho
<http://www.lib.uidaho.edu/special-collections/>
On Tue, 27 Jun 2000, Catherine Barber wrote:
> I work for a small corporate archives in Texas. The company has budgeted =
> for one staff position, supplies and training. I have been working with =
> this collection for almost three years now and we are in desperate need of =
> additional staff and funding. My managers want me to look into grants =
> that could help us in expanding this program.
>
> My question is for other corporate archivists that have experienced =
> problems in receiving funding. Are there grants available for archives in =
> a corporate setting? Or is our only option convincing upper management to =
> provide more funding for this program? Besides the usual arguments on the =
> importance of archives, what other ideas can we bring to management to =
> increase their interest and gain more support?
>
> Thanks,
> Catherine Barber
> corporate archives
> cbarber@lcra.org
>
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