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www.doleta.gov/grants or on http:// 

www.grants.gov. The Web sites provide 

application information, eligibility 

requirements, review and selection 

procedures and other program 

requirements governing this solicitation. 

DATES: The closing date for receipt of 

applications is July 15, 2011. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Serena Boyd, 200 Constitution Avenue, 

NW., Room N–4716, Washington, DC 

20210; telephone: 202–693–3338. 

Signed at Washington, DC, this 24th day of 

May, 2011. 

B. Jai Johnson, 

Grant Officer, Employment and Training 

Administration. 

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BILLING CODE 4510–FN–P 

NATIONAL ARCHIVES AND RECORDS 

ADMINISTRATION 

Advisory Committee on the Records of 

Congress 

AGENCY: National Archives and Records 

Administration. 

ACTION: Notice of meeting. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Federal Advisory Committee Act, the 

National Archives and Records 

Administration (NARA) announces a 

meeting of the Advisory Committee on 

the Records of Congress. The committee 

advises NARA on the full range of 

programs, policies, and plans for the 

Center for Legislative Archives in the 

Office of Records Services. 

DATES: The meeting will be held on June 

13, 2011 from 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. 

ADDRESSES: Capitol Visitor Center, 

Congressional Meeting Room North. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Agenda 

(1) Chair’s opening remarks— 

Secretary of the Senate. 

(2) Recognition of Co-chair—Clerk of 

the House. 

(3) Recognition of the Archivist of the 

United States. 

(4) Approval of the minutes of the last 

meeting. 

(5) Discussion of on-going projects 

and activities. 

(6) Annual Report of the Center for 

Legislative Archives. 

(7) Other current issues and new 

business. 

The meeting is open to the public. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Richard H. Hunt, Director; Center for 

Legislative Archives; (202) 357–5350. 

Dated: May 25, 2011. 

Mary Ann Hadyka, 

Committee Management Officer. 

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BILLING CODE 7515–01–P 

NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR THE 

ARTS AND THE HUMANITIES 

Notice of Proposed Information 

Collection Requests: Sustaining 

Digitized Special Collections and 

Archives Survey 

AGENCY: Institute of Museum and 

Library Services. 

ACTION: Notice, request for comments, 

collection of information. 

SUMMARY: The Institute of Museum and 

Library Services (IMLS), as part of its 

continuing effort to reduce paperwork 

and respondent burden, conducts a preclearance consultation program to 

provide the general public and federal 

agencies with an opportunity to 

comment on proposed and/or 

continuing collections of information in 

accordance with the Paperwork 

Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35). 

This pre-clearance consultation program 

helps to ensure that requested data can 

be provided in the desired format, 

reporting burden (time and financial 

resources) is minimized, collection 

instruments are clearly understood, and 

the impact of collection requirements on 

respondents can be properly assessed. 

By this notice, IMLS is soliciting 

comments concerning a proposed 

survey to gather information on the 

practices of creating and maintaining 

sustainable digitized special collections. 

A copy of the proposed information 

collection request can be obtained by 

contacting the individual listed below 

in the ADDRESSES section of this notice. 

DATES: Written comments must be 

submitted to the office listed in the 

addressee section below on or before 

July 25, 2011. 

IMLS is particularly interested in 

comments that help the agency to: 

• Evaluate whether the proposed 

collection of information is necessary 

for the proper performance of the 

functions of the agency, including 

whether the information will have 

practical utility; 

• Evaluate the accuracy of the 

agency’s estimate of the burden of the 

proposed collection of information 

including the validity of the 

methodology and assumptions used; 

• Enhance the quality, utility, and 

clarity of the information to be 

collected; and 

• Minimize the burden of the 

collection of information on those who 

are to respond, including through the 

use of appropriate automated electronic, 

mechanical, or other technological 

collection techniques, or other forms of 

information technology, e.g., permitting 

electronic submissions of responses. 

ADDRESSES: Send comments to: Chuck 

Thomas, Institute of Museum and 

Library Services, 1800 M Street, NW., 

9th Floor, Washington, DC 20036. 

Telephone: 202–653–4663. E-mail: 

cthomas@imls.gov or by or by teletype 

(TTY/TDD) for persons with hearing 

difficulty at 202–653–4614. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Background: 

The Institute of Museum and Library 

Services is the primary source of federal 

support for the Nation’s 123,000 

libraries and 17,500 museums. The 

Institute’s mission is to create strong 

libraries and museums that connect 

people to information and ideas. The 

Institute works at the national level and 

in coordination with state and local 

organizations to sustain heritage, 

culture, and knowledge; enhance 

learning and innovation; and support 

professional development. IMLS 

conducts policy research, analysis, and 

data collection to extend and improve 

the Nation’s museum, library, and 

information services. The policy 

research, analysis, and data collection is 

used to: identify national needs for and 

trends in museum, library, and 

information services; measure and 

report on the impact and effectiveness 

of museum, library, and information 

services throughout the United States; 

identify best practices; and develop 

plans to improve museum, library, and 

information services of the United 

States and strengthen national, State, 

local, regional, and international 

communications and cooperative 

networks. (20 U.S.C. Chapter 72, 20 

U.S.C. 9108). 

II. Current Actions 

Over the past decade, libraries, 

archives, museums, foundations and 

government agencies, and others have 

invested millions in the digitization of 

historical and rare content for research, 

education, cultural heritage. Grants have 

facilitated major digitization efforts, 

developed significant new collections, 

and paved the way for exciting new 

forms of research and teaching, possible 

only in an online environment. As 

budgets tighten and the real costs of 

ongoing support for digital projects 

become clear, however, libraries, 

archives, and museums are discovering 

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that the work associated with 

digitization projects rarely concludes 

when the last scanned file is posted to 

a public site. The maintenance of digital 

projects requires an ongoing investment 

of both financial and human resources; 

not only must servers be supported and 

user queries answered, but rapid 

advances in technology are changing 

user expectations about how they want 

to discover, interact with, and share 

digital content. These changes are 

creating complicated new challenges for 

libraries, archives, and other institutions 

that wish to digitize and make available 

their local special and archival 

collections. 

The project will consist of two parts: 

first, a survey asking representatives 

from a range of institutions to document 

existing practices and attitudes toward 

sustaining digitized special collections, 

and second, a series of case studies on 

innovative models for managing and 

sustaining digitized special collections 

(to be released in Spring 2012). This 

study will promote the spread of 

knowledge about library and museum 

experiments and initiatives to support 

digital projects, enabling both the 

leaders of current and future digital 

projects to develop more robust 

sustainability plans and also the funders 

and institutional administrators who 

support these projects to understand the 

factors and variables that help point 

towards success. This survey will 

attempt to gather data from a broad and 

representative range of cultural heritage 

organizations across the United States. 

This survey is intended for libraries, 

archives, museums, and other cultural 

heritage organizations that have 

digitized some portion of their special 

collections or have arranged to have 

their special collections digitized by a 

third party. Please do not hesitate to 

contact the authors of the survey (see 

contact information below) if you are 

unsure whether the survey applies to 

your organization. 

The survey is being distributed to 

leaders of libraries or other institutions 

that are: Recipients of IMLS funds for 

digitization projects from 1997 to the 

present, (through National Leadership 

Grants or via other routes such as LSTA 

funding) or Members of the Association 

of Research Libraries. 

Agency: Institute of Museum and 

Library Services. 

Title: Sustaining Digitized Special 

Collections and Archives Survey. 

OMB Number: To be determined. 

Agency Number: 3137. 

Frequency: One-time survey. 

Affected Public: Libraries, archives, 

museums, and other cultural heritage 

organizations. 

Number of Respondents: To be 

determined. 

Estimated Time per Respondent: To 

be determined. 

Total Annualized Capital/Startup 

Costs: To be determined. 

Total Costs: To be determined. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Chuck Thomas, Institute of Museum 

and Library Services, 1800 M Street 

NW., 9th Floor, Washington, DC 20036. 

Telephone: 202–653–4663. E-mail: 

cthomas@imls.gov or by or by teletype 

(TTY/TDD) for persons with hearing 

difficulty at 202–653–4614. 

Dated: May 25, 2011. 

Kim Miller, 

Management Analyst. 

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BILLING CODE 7036–01–P 

THE NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR 

THE ARTS AND THE HUMANITIES 

Submission for OMB Review, 

Comment Request, Proposed 

Collection: IMLS Digital Collections 

and Content: An Assessment of 

Opening History 

AGENCY: Institute of Museum and 

Library Services, The National 

Foundation for the Arts and the 

Humanities. 

ACTION: Submission for OMB review, 

comment request. 

SUMMARY: The Institute of Museum and 

Library Services announces that the 

following information collection has 

been submitted to the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) for 

review and approval in accordance with 

the Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. 

Chapter 35). This program helps to 

ensure that requested data can be 

provided in the desired format, 

reporting burden (time and financial 

resources) is minimized, collection 

instruments are clearly understood, and 

the impact of collection requirements on 

respondents can be properly assessed. 

A copy of the proposed information 

collection request, with applicable 

supporting documentation, may be 

obtained by contacting the individual 

listed below in the ADDRESSES section of 

this notice. 

DATES: Written comments must be 

submitted to the office listed in the 

ADDRESSES section below on or before 

June 27, 2011. 

OMB is particularly interested in 

comments that help the agency to: 

• Evaluate whether the proposed 

collection of information is necessary 

for the proper performance of the 

functions of the agency, including 

whether the information will have 

practical utility; 

• Evaluate the accuracy of the 

agency’s estimate of the burden of the 

proposed collection of information 

including the validity of the 

methodology and assumptions used; 

• Enhance the quality, utility, and 

clarity of the information to be 

collected; and 

• Minimize the burden of the 

collection of information on those who 

are to respond, including through the 

use of appropriate automated electronic, 

mechanical, or other technological 

collection techniques, or other forms of 

information technology, e.g., permitting 

electronic submissions of responses. 

ADDRESSES: Chuck Thomas, Senior 

Program Officer, Institute of Museum 

and Library Services, 1800 M Street, 

NW., 9th Floor, Washington, DC 20036. 

Telephone: 202–653–4663. E-mail: 

cthomas@imls.gov or by teletype (TTY/ 

TDD) for persons with hearing difficulty 

at 202–653–4614. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

Institute of Museum and Library 

Services (IMLS) is an independent 

Federal grant-making agency and is the 

primary source of federal support for the 

Nation’s 123,000 libraries and 17,500 

museums. IMLS provides a variety of 

grant programs to assist the Nation’s 

museums and libraries in improving 

their operations and enhancing their 

services to the public. IMLS conducts 

policy research, analysis, and data 

collection to extend and improve the 

Nation’s museum, library, and 

information services. The policy 

research, analysis, and data collection is 

used to: Identify national needs for and 

trends in museum, library, and 

information services; measure and 

report on the impact and effectiveness 

of museum, library, and information 

services throughout the United States; 

identify best practices; and develop 

plans to improve museum, library, and 

information services of the United 

States and strengthen national, State, 

local, regional, and international 

communications and cooperative 

networks. (20 U.S.C. Chapter 72, 20 

U.S.C. 9108). 

Abstract: This national survey of 

reference service providers in public 

and academic libraries is intended to 

help the IMLS Digital Collections and 

Content (DCC) project evaluate the 

Opening History resource. Opening 

History is a publicly available registry 

and repository of digital cultural 

heritage collections, expanded from a 

strong base of collections digitized 

through IMLS support. Approximately 

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