NEH Awards Seattle PL $500K Challenge Grant
Staff -- Library Journal, 1/17/2000
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has awarded the Seattle Public Library a $500,000 challenge grant, which will be matched with $1.5 million over three years. According to the library, interest from the grant will fund "a series of free, scholar-led humanities programs in conjunction with local cultural organizations and to acquire items for [its] humanities collection...." The library has already received more than $1 million in pledges to help match the grant. Nancy Pearl, executive director for the library's Center for the Book operation, asserted that "the programs will encourage people to do more than sit back and be entertained. They will engage the participants to think about and discuss the ideas and themes contained in the history and literature being presented."
