ABSTRACT
This chapter will discuss one innovative approach of using grant funds to bring instructors to a central location rather than sending staff off site. Recognizing a need for selected staff members in the Special Collections Library at the Pennsylvania State University to learn basic, intermediate, advanced, and specialized archival principles and practices, one faculty librarian investigated the viability of bringing Society of American Archivists (SAA) continuing education workshops to Penn State to circumvent the high cost of sending professional and paraprofessional staff to workshops at regional or national conferences. She wrote a series of grants funded by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission (PHMC) that subsidized most of the costs of holding the workshops, taught by subject experts, at the library. The grants covered participation by librarians and archivists in academic libraries throughout Pennsylvania as well as staff in local historical societies-all at the “scholarship rate” of $20 per day; SAA populated the balance of the workshop slots with attendees from across the country.
