British Library Endangered Archives Programme Grant

Program Description: The Endangered Archives Programme (EAP) facilitates the digitization of archives that are in danger of physical deterioration. EAP offers grants to thirty select projects each year to preserve culturally important and vulnerable archives through digitisation.

Geographic Scope: International

Focus Areas:

• Digitization and preservation of endangered cultural archives
• Projects that capture forgotten and suppressed histories
• Culturally important and vulnerable materials at risk of deterioration

Project Example: Asian Legacy Library was awarded a competitive Major Project Grant for "Digitization and Preservation of a Historic Collection of Mongolian Authors at the National Library of Mongolia." The project aims to select and preserve 500 volumes of unique and fragile material written by Mongolian authors in Tibetan language between 1700 and 1900.

Eligibility:

• Organizations working on preservation and digitization projects
• Projects involving culturally significant materials at risk

Funder Background: According to Lisbet Rausing, Co-Founder of the EAP: "The Endangered Archives Programme captures forgotten and still not written histories, often suppressed or marginalized. It gives voice to the voiceless: it opens a dialogue with global humanity's multiple pasts. It is a library of history still waiting to be written."