From: "Cliff Lynch cliff@cni.org" Sender: To: CNI-ANNOUNCE Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2020 15:40:55 -0400 Message-ID: X-Original-Return-Path: Received: from [73.193.181.76] (account clifford@cni.org HELO [192.168.1.13]) by cni.org (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 6.2.7) with ESMTPSA id 36901243 for cni-announce@cni.org; Thu, 30 Jul 2020 14:28:27 -0400 X-Original-Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2020 14:28:26 -0400 X-Original-To: cni-announce@cni.org X-Original-Message-ID: <20200730142826707661.aabcee00@cni.org> Subject: IMLS Grant Awarded to Support National Finding Aids Network Initiative MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: GyazMail version 1.6.3 I was delighted to see that the Institute of Museum and Library Services has just awarded a National Leadership Grant to a group of collaborators lead by the California Digital Library to advance a program of work towards a National Findings Aids Network, building on a report and strategic plan that I shared with this list earlier. I was particularly pleased to see range of partners playing key roles in this effort, which promises to ensure that it will be well-integrated with other related efforts such as SNAC. I'll try to ensure that the CNI community gets regular updates on this important work. There's a press release, which includes links to the foundational report and strategic plan, at https://cdlib.org/cdlinfo/2020/07/28/building-a-national-finding-aid-network-collaborative-research-and-development-initiative-receives-imls-funding-support/ Clifford Lynch Director, CNI