Deadline: 12-Jan-22
Organizations may now apply for Library and Archives Canada’s (LAC) funding through the Documentary Heritage Communities Program (DHCP). This funding helps to ensure that Canada’s continuing memory is documented, preserved and accessible.
Objectives
The DHCP provides financial assistance to the Canadian documentary heritage community for activities that:
- Increase access to, and awareness of, Canada’s local documentary heritage organizations and their holdings.
- Collection-, catalogue- and access-based management
- Commemorative projects
- Conversion and digitization for access purposes
- Development (research, design and production) of virtual and physical exhibitions, including travelling exhibits
- Increase the capacity of local documentary heritage organizations to better sustain and preserve Canada’s documentary heritage.
- Conservation and preservation treatment
- Conversion and digitization for preservation purposes, including recording interviews for oral history projects
- Increased digital preservation capacity (excluding digital infrastructure related to day-to-day activities)
- Training and workshops that improve professional competencies and build the organization’s capacity
- Development of standards, performance and other measurement activities
Funding Information
The Program will award eligible projects as follows:
- Small projects: Up to $24,999
- Duration is up to one year.
- Both incorporated and non-incorporated non-profit organizations can apply.
- Indigenous government institutions can apply.
- Large projects: Between $25,000 and $50,000 (or up to $60,000 for organizations located in remote areas)
- Duration is up to one year.
- Incorporated non-profit organizations can apply.
- Indigenous government institutions can apply.
- Multi-year projects: Organizations that have received DHCP funding in the past and that have completed their project(s) can apply. A project is considered “completed” once LAC accepts the organization’s project-end report.
- Small multi-year projects: Up to $24,999
- Duration is up to two years.
- Total funding cannot exceed $24,999.
- Large multi-year projects: Up to $50,000 per year (or up to $60,000 for organizations located in remote areas)
- Duration is up to two years.
- Incorporated non-profit organizations can apply.
- Indigenous government institutions can apply.
- Total funding cannot exceed $100,000 (or $120,000 for organizations in remote areas).
- Small multi-year projects: Up to $24,999
Eligible Projects
Examples:
- Migrating a collection or holdings to an online database
- Enhancing your finding aid with archival standard descriptions, translations and transcriptions
- Recording interviews with local veterans about their experiences during the Second World War or interviews with local Indigenous Elders about their experiences, traditions and culture
- Conserving and/or restoring portraits or photographs of historical and/or local significance
- Creating an exhibition based on a specific collection
- Developing and sharing best practices and policies for processing holdings
- Digitizing a mixed media collection or local oral history interviews
- Digitizing newspapers for which the applicant owns the copyright
- Organizing a documentary heritage conference
Eligibility Criteria
- Local documentary heritage organizations eligible to apply to the DHCP are non-profit organizations that hold collections of mainly local or regional significance:
- Archives
- Genealogical organizations/societies
- Historical societies
- Indigenous organizations/government institutions
- Libraries
- Organizations with an archival component
- Professional library or archival associations
- All applicants must be privately funded (50% or more) with the exception of Indigenous organizations/government institutions.
- Different funding conditions apply to incorporated and non-incorporated organizations, as well as to organizations that have received DHCP funding in the past.
For more information, visit https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/services/documentary-heritage-communities-program/Pages/dhcp.aspx