National Library of Australia - Gateways

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.

2002 Community Heritage Grant recipients
2002 Community Heritage Grant recipients

2002 Community Heritage Grants

ORGANISATION NAME

STATE 

PROJECT 

AMOUNT

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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