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Re: Great Job Opportunity???
We are not starting with a professional and then moving to a
paraprofessional. We are solid in the funding of this position. Didn't
mean to get a thread going here. Darrell Beauchamp, Navarro College.
Dean DeBolt wrote:
> 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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Darrell Beauchamp, Ed.D.
Dean of Learning Resources & Special Collections
The Pearce Civil War Collection
The Pearce Western Art Collection
The Robert S. Reading Indian Artifact Collection
The Samuels Hobbit Carving Collection
Internet: dbeau@nav.cc.tx.us
Navarro College Phone : 903-875-7441
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