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Columbus-Lowndes Public Library System Receives NEH Grant

Thursday, August 29, 2019 4:05 PM | Anonymous

The Columbus-Lowndes Public Library System received a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to go towards its Local History Department. The project, titled "Focusing the Camera’s Lens: Assessing and Preserving Lowndes County, Mississippi’s Photographic History", allows for a professional conservator to create a preservation assessment of the archives photographic collections, along with the purchase of some preservation supplies to rehouse them. The Endowment received 102 eligible applications; the budget allowed for 45 awards. 


Submitted by

Mona Vance-Ali

Archivist

Columbus-Lowndes Public Library System


        

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