We have recently added a new resource to your PPO toolbelt: Knowledge Base articles! Articles are available for brand new users who aren’t sure how to get started as well as long-time users who are looking for some tips. You can check out all PPO Knowledge Base articles at https://pastperfect.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/categories/360001853713. Let us know what you think!

Here's a quick refresher on the other free resources at your disposal:

Are you using your PastPerfect Online site to its full potential? Brush up on your PPO knowledge by joining Allison and Demi for our free Lunchtime Lectures. Watch, listen, and learn as we review some PastPerfect Online basics and demonstrate ways to improve your site. Each lecture will end with a Q&A session. We hope to see you there!

Our first series starts this fall and will provide a deep dive into the PastPerfect side of your online collections, including the various methods to select records, an in-depth overview of each step in the Web Publishing Wizard, and an explanation of what happens after you upload new files.

Registration links will be sent to all PPO Newsletter recipients in August. We will send recordings of these webinars to everyone who registers, so we invite you to sign up even if you are unable to attend the live session.

In our first lecture, we will review selecting records to be shared online individually, using a query, and using a Catalog List. We will discuss how to remove both records and individual image attachments. We will also share a few tips on how Catalog Lists can be used to further manage your online collections for future uploads.

Our second lecture will cover the first three steps of the Web Publishing Wizard and will review how to select which fields are shared and why field order matters, customizing the display names for your fields, and setting up Advanced Search categories and field mapping.

Our series concludes with the final three steps of the Web Publishing Wizard: reviewing your selected records, creating web copies of your selected data and images, and uploading your files.

The Callander Bay Heritage Museum in Ontario recently had their online collections featured in an article by BayToday. Read the article at https://www.baytoday.ca/local-news/callanders-museum-is-digitizing-the-past-for-the-future-6866422.

Applications for the Humanities Collections and Reference Resources (HCRR) grant, offered by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), are now open. The application is due by July 18, 2023. 

HCRR advances scholarship, education, and public programming in the humanities by helping libraries, archives, museums, and historical organizations across the country steward important collections of books and manuscripts, photographs, sound recordings and moving images, archaeological and ethnographic artifacts, art and material culture, and digital objects.

Guidelines for this grant are available at https://www.neh.gov/grants/preservation/humanities-collections-and-reference-resources.

Applications for the Publishing Historical Records in Collaborative Digital Editions grant, offered by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC), are open. A draft is due by August 15, 2023 and the final deadline is November 2, 2023.

The NHPRC seeks proposals to publish online editions of historical records. All types of historical records are eligible, including documents, photographs, born-digital records, and analog audio. The goal of this program is to provide access to, and editorial context for, the historical documents and records that tell the American story.

Guidelines for this grant are available at https://www.archives.gov/nhprc/announcement/editions.html.