Structure
As with other National Endowment for the Humanities programs, the Brittle Books Program is a partnership program, meaning that qualifying institutions must apply for grants in order to participate. Should the institution be accepted, they are required to share at least 33% of the program's costs. Unlike other National Endowment for the Humanities preservation funding initiatives, the Brittle Books program does require that an institution in each state must be awarded a grant. The projects are largely run at the state level with the National Endowment for the Humanities providing methodologies, assuring a standard level of quality, and connecting the efforts of the various institutions. To be awarded a grant as part of the Brittle Books Program, institutions were required to abide by five basic conditions:
- 1. That they abide by the national standard
- 2. That they create three copies of all material: a master negative, a print negative, and a service copy
- 3. That a record adhering to national standards be entered into a national bibliographic database
- 4. That interlibrary loan copies be readily available
- 5. That storage conditions meet that of the national standard
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