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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
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> Special Collections and West Florida Archives
> John C. Pace Library
> University of West Florida
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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

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