[Nhcoll-l] funding digitization of federal collections?

[David Cannatella]

Catherine,
I was at NSF as a program officer for two years, and worked with Reed
Beaman, the permanent program officer who manages the collections grants
program. Good idea to check directly with him. When I was there, I
often found that community-based information was incorrect.

Best,
Dave

On Fri, Apr 28, 2023 at 12:12 PM Catherine Early (she/her) <cearly at smm.org>
wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> This is a question for folks who deal with US collections. I have a vague
> understanding that NSF will not award funds to curate "federal
> collections," including collections of specimens from federal lands that
> are held in non-federal institutions (whether on permanent loan, as a
> repository, or fully accessioned) because this is considered
> "double-dipping." Is this accurate? Does it apply to specimens from ANY
> federal lands or only on certain federal lands, e.g. does it apply to those
> managed by the National Park Service but not those managed by the US
> Department of Agriculture? And how strict is it? For example, if I receive
> funding to digitize a collection of 20,000 specimens and as we start
> digitizing, we realize that 200 of them were collected from federal lands,
> can we not digitize those 200 even though they're in the collection for
> which we received funding to digitize? I've reached out to an NSF program
> officer for clarification but figured it was worth crowd-sourcing the
> answer, too. Thanks!
>
> Best,
> Catherine
>
>
> Catherine M. Early, PhD
>
> *she/her/hers*
>
> Barbara Brown Chair of Ornithology
>
> cearly at smm.org
>
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