CWAM is closing in on its IMLS grant application! At the last meeting in Sheridan we decided that we would ask for funds to do the following with the initial planning grant ($40,000).
1. Identify and work with community leaders in each 23 counties that have the ability to rally and dialogue with all the museums, archives, historical societies, Federal entities, and libraries in their area.
2. Ask this leader to host an inclusive meeting (using funds from the grant) with all interested parties in their county to discuss the four points of the Heritage Health index and prepare any collection holding cultural institution for the upcoming survey.
3. CWAM will develop a Wyoming specific survey using the key questions from IMLS’s Heritage Health index to gather data about the following:
a. Conditions of collections
b. Emergency plans; disaster/risk management
c. Assigned responsibility for collections care
d. Public and private support for, and public awareness about, collections care
4. A survey company out of the University of Wyoming will distribute the questions among any institution with collections, approx. 200 museums, 23 libraries, and ?.
5. A part time employee (hired with grant funds, administered through CWAM) will work with the survey agency to gather and interpret the data.
The data from the survey will be used to write the second part of the IMLS grant, implementation and action. 1/2 a million is on the line! Museums and libraries with similar needs, as identified through the survey, will be grouped together for training and action steps.
If you are interested in being a leader in your county, please contact me at: tbeyer@state.wy.us.
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I was thinking about this on the way home, and could a planning grant include extended community education (volunteers, boards, interested community members etc.)? Maybe education/training outside the staffs of the institutions on what the HHI results were and more importantly what collections can/should look like would be beneficial. I know it would be in our area.
This might increase community buy in toward the big projects and $, as well as helping all of our collections for long term. Just a thought, and a need in our community. Just a thought.
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