ISSN 1039-3498 | no. 60 | December 2002
2002 Community Heritage Grants Awarded to 37 Community Groups
The 2002 Community Heritage Grants were announced by the Hon. Rod Kemp, Minister for the Arts and Sport, at a function held at the National Library of Australia (NLA) on 13 November. Mr Kemp said ‘These grants help ensure valuable heritage material continues to be collected and preserved, giving more Australians the opportunity to learn about ourselves and our place in history.’
This year the NLA in partnership with the Department of Communication, Information Technology and the Arts and National Archives of Australia, presented awards and distributed over $850 000 to 245 organisations.
Thirty-seven community groups from around Australia were awarded grants from a record number of 246 applicants. The funding this year will be used for projects such as conservation treatment on a collection of Walter Burley Griffin building plans held at the Willoughby City Library, the digitisation of part of the music collection at the Australian Music Centre, and the preservation of important maps in the Geraldton Regional Library.
A representative of each organisation was invited to attend two days of preservation workshops held at the National Library where grant recipients had access to the expertise of staff from the NLA’s Preservation Services and Digitisation Project and the National Archives of Australia.
Application forms for the 2003 Community Heritage Grants program will be available in February. Contact Alex Philp, Coordinator Community Heritage Grants on (02) 62621147 to be placed on the mailing list.
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2002
Community Heritage Grant recipients
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2002 Community Heritage Grants
| ORGANISATION NAME |
STATE |
PROJECT |
AMOUNT |
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Cooloola
Shire Library Service |
QLD |
Archival Storage Materials, Rehousing and Copying |
$8000 |
| Queensland Women’s Historical Society | QLD | Preservation Assessment | $3764 |
| Bega
Valley Historical Society |
NSW |
Storage and Rehousing of Glass Plate Negative Collection | $4000 |
| Stanthorpe Historical Society | QLD | Significance Assessment | $2200 |
| Catholic Diocese of Darwin | NT | Significance Assessment | $2200 |
| Ngunnawal Community Care | NSW | Preservation Assessment | $2750 |
| Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association |
NT |
Storage Materials and CDs for Digitisation Project | $5500 |
| Western Australian Police Historical Society | WA |
Archival
Storage Materials |
$5000 |
| Adelaide Gaol Preservation Society | SA | Preservation Assessment | $3300 |
| Wing Hing Long Museum | NSW | Storage Materials and Rehousing Project | $6000 |
| Minlaton
Branch of the National Trust of South Australia |
SA |
Storage
Materials and Rehousing Project |
$1265 |
| AIDS Action Council of the ACT | ACT | Significance Assessment | $2200 |
| Royal Agriculture Society of Tasmania | TAS | Conservation Treatment and Reformatting of Photographic Collection | $7900 |
| Willunga
Branch of the National Trust of South Australia |
SA |
Preservation
Assessment |
$3473 |
| Euston—Robinvale Historical Society | NSW | Preservation Assessment | $3300 |
| Australian Railway Historical Society (WA) | WA |
Preservation
Assessment |
$3800 |
| Archives
of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Perth |
WA |
Storage Materials and Rehousing of the Archival Collection | $4480 |
| New Norfolk Historical Information Centre | TAS | Significance Assessment | $2700 |
| SDN Childrens Services | NSW | Preservation Assessment | $2750 |
| Greek
Orthodox Community of South Australia |
SA |
Preservation
Assessment |
$3300 |
| Mount Buller Museum | VIC | Preservation Assessment | $3500 |
| Hahndorf Academy | SA | Preservation Assessment | $3300 |
| Wagga Wagga City Library | NSW | Reformatting and Storage Materials | $3900 |
| Sokol Sydney Gymnastic Association | NSW | Significance Assessment | $2200 |
| Willoughby
City Library |
NSW | Conservation Treatment of the Water Burley Griffin Map and Plan Collection | $7925 |
| Australian Music Centre | NSW | Digitisation Project and Storage Materials | $7750 |
| Koorie Heritage Trust | VIC | Oral History Recording Reformatting | $8000 |
| Buda Historic Home and Garden | VIC | Conservation of Artwork from the Leviny Collection | $6000 |
| Monash Public Library Service | VIC | Preservation Assessment of the Local Historic Collection | $2750 |
| Community Radio Federation | VIC | Digitisation of the Recorded Sound Collection at 3CR | $4000 |
| Geraldton Regional Library | WA | Conservation Treatment of Historic Map Collection | $5650 |
| SKA
TV |
VIC |
Digitisation of Community Television Collection | $6000 |
| Melbourne
Fringe |
VIC |
Significance Assessment of the Archival Collection | $2200 |
| Australian
Vietnamese Women’s Welfare Association |
VIC |
Preservation
Assessment |
$2750 |
| Jewish Holocaust Centre | VIC | Reformatting of Video Recording of Holocaust Survivors | $8000 |
| Hay’s Museums/Hay Shire Council | NSW | Storage Materials and Rehousing of 4 Collections in Hay | $7800 |
| Warliyirti Art and Culture Centre | WA | Preservation Assessment | $5500 |
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