The series contains records regarding the Education Subcommittee's work on the National Endowment for the Arts and Humanities and the Institute for Museum and Library Services. The National Endowment for the Arts and Humanities are federal independent agencies established under the National Foundation on the Arts and Humanities Act authored by Senator Pell and signed into law by President Johnson on September 29, 1965. The agencies provide grants and support for the arts, preservation of cultural heritage, and the education of all Americans.

The Institute for Museum and Library Service Act was created to improve museum, library, and information services by consolidating federal programs for museums which are administered by the Institute for Museum Services and programs supporting libraries, which are administered by the Department of Education. The legislation was signed into law by President Clinton on September 30, 1996.

Subjects include art education, censorship bills, Christian Action Network, museum funding, individual grants, gay and lesbian art, support for minority projects, and budgetary issues. The series also includes records concerning the President's Committee for the advancement of public understanding of the arts and humanities and the establishment of partnerships with the private sector and federal agencies to address critical issues facing cultural life in the United States.


For more information about Senator Claiborne Pell and his work as a United States Senator, please visit the University of Rhode Island Archives and Special Collections website: http://web.uri.edu/specialcollections/political_papers_list2/senator_pell_papers2/

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Browse the Education: National Endowment for the Arts and Humanities, Subject Files I (1973-1996) Collections:

African-American Museum (1993-1994)

Appropriations (1978-1986)

Appropriations (1994-1995)

Appropriations (1996)

Arts and Humanities: Background (1975-1995)

Arts, Humanities, and Museums Amendments: House Report (1993)

Arts, Humanities, and Museums Amendments: Reports with Minority Views (1990)

Arts: Policy and Talking Points (1994)

Berman, Ronald: Humanities Chairman Nomination Hearing (1975-1976)

Berman, Ronald: Memoranda (1975-1984)

Berman, Ronald: News Articles (1976)

Biddle, Livingston: National Medal of Arts (1994)

Biddle Proposal: Arts Organizations (1995)

Briefing Book: National Endowment for the Arts (1994)

Community Arts Partnership Act (1994)

Community Arts Partnership Act: Correspondence (1994)

Congressional Arts Caucus (February 1994)

Conservation: Hearings, Reports, Correspondence (1971-1973)

Consolidated and Reformed Workforce Development and Literacy Act (1976)

Curran, Edward: Confirmation Hearing (1985)

Curran, Edward: Humanities Chairman Nomination Hearing (1985)

Design Arts (1994-1995)

Design Arts: National Academy of Design (1994)

Division of Education Programs and Research Grants (1974-1975)

Duffey, Joseph: Humanities Chairman Nomination Hearing (September 9, 1977)

Endowments: Reauthorization Bill (that was never given floor time) (1995)

Fellowships, Stipends, and Seminars (1973-1974)

Folger Shakespeare Library: Renaissance Forum Awards (1995)

Hackney, Sheldon: Humanities Chairman Nomination Hearing (1993)

Hearing on Museums (July 19, 1973)

Holocaust Museum (1994)

Humanities: State Agencies (September 15, 1975)

Iannone, Carol: Letters Opposing Nomination of (1991)

Iannone, Carol: National Council on the Humanities Nomination (1991)

Iannone, Carol: National Council on the Humanities Nomination (1991)

Iannone, Carol: News Articles (1991)

Institute of Museum and Library Services Act: Press Releases (1996)

Institute of Museum and Library Services Act (1996)

Institute of Museum and Library Services Act  (1996)

Interior Appropriations Bill: Pell Statements (1990)

Legislative History of the Reauthorization of the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) (1990)

Letters (1979)

Letters (1980)

Letters (1981)

Letters (1982)

Letters (1983)

Letters (1984)

Letters: Outgoing (1990-1994)

Library Services and Construction Act (1988-1991)

Library Services and Construction Act: Joint Hearing (April 11, 1989)

Library Services and Construction Act: Reauthorization (1989-1994)

Library Services and Construction Act: Reauthorization Technicals (1984-1985)

Library Services and Construction Act: Testimonies (1994)

Library Services and Technology Act (1996)

Library Services Improvement Act (1988-1989)

Library Services Improvement Act (1989)

List of Awards by State (1989)

Museum and Library Services Act (1996)

Museum Services Board (1991)

National Commission on Libraries (1991)

National Commission on Libraries and Information Science (1989-1990)

National Commission on Libraries and Information Science (1990-1991)

National Endowment for the Humanities Reauthorization (1975)

National Foundation on the Arts and Humanities Act and Museum Services Act: Extensions (1979)

National Foundation on the Arts and Humanities: S. 1386 (1979)

National Foundation on the Arts and Humanities: S. 1386 (1979)

National Library and Information Services Act (1979-1980)

National Museum Act Program (1973-1974)

National Museum Act Program (1973-1974)

President's Committee (1994)

Reagan Administration: Funding Cuts News Articles (1981-1982)

Reauthorization: Hearings and Reports (1990)

Reauthorization: Hearings and Reports (1990)

Reauthorization: Institute for Museum Services (IMS) (1990)

Reauthorization: S. 2724 (1990)

Reauthorization: S. 2724 (1990)

Reauthorization: S. 2724 (1990)

Reauthorization: State Grant Formula (1990)

Reauthorization: Williams/Coleman Compromise (October 27, 1990)

Rhode Island State Council on the Arts (1979-1992)

Rhode Island State Council on the Arts (1979-1992)

Senate Speeches on the Arts and Humanities (1994-1996)

Spending Amendments (1994)

Statements and Speeches (1975-1979)

Summer Seminars for College Teachers (1975)

White House Conference on Library and Information Services (1987-1988)

White House Conference on Library and Information Services: Early Stages (1979-1985)

White House Conference on Library and Information Services: Final passage (1988)

White House Conference on Library and Information Services: Hearing S.J. Res. 26 (April 3, 1987)

White House Conference on Library and Information Services: Joint Hearing (1991)

White House Conference on Library and Information Services: Staff Memoranda (February 10, 1988)

Workforce Development Act (1996)