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Re: Great Job Opportunity???



The difficulty facing most organizations is obviously
recurring funding for positions and staff.   Frankly, it is
far easier to find finding to "start" an archives than to
maintain it.   Generous benefactors, granting authorities,
and organizations with budgetary "windfalls" -- all often
are willing to fund a one-year or beginning operation.

The question that any applicant or non-applicant should
be asking these agencies is what happens after the initial
period?    Grant-funding agencies often ask for a letter of
commitment that the "beginning" project will continue and
be taken over.   I've seen lots of these letters and they are
apparently not legally binding.

It is true that the professional may be supplanted by para-
professionals.   But it is generally not the factor in many of
these organizations.   Often they do have expectations that
once a generous benefactor sees what they're doing, then
funding will arise to continue the efforts.

Dean



Dean DeBolt
University Librarian
Special Collections and West Florida Archives
John C. Pace Library
University of West Florida
11000 University Parkway
Pensacola, FL  32514-5750
Tele:  850-474-2213;   Fax:  850-474-3338

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