Dear Colleague,

Call for Applications: 2013-14 Multi-Volume Set Grants for Japanese Library Collections http://guides.nccjapan.org/mvs

• MVS Prescreening Deadline: October 15, 2013
• MVS Final ApplicationDeadline: December 20,
2013
• MVS Grant Notification: March 1, 2014


MVS supports the purchase of expensive sets for teaching and research, with a special grant category for smaller collections, paying up to 80% of the purchase cost of sets costing over ¥100,000.

1) Qualified smaller institutions
(http://guides.nccjapan.org/content.php?pid=358716&sid=
2933706#10296234 ) are those with a Japanese materials acquisitions budget of less than $10,000 per year. Such institutions may receive up to 80% of the purchase price for sets needed for research and undergraduate education on Japan. All the shipping and handling costs for small institutions are also fully covered by MVS.

2) Traditional MVS Applicants
(http://guides.nccjapan.org/content.php?pid=358716&sid=
2933706#10296307 ) are institutions with annual Japanese language acquisitions budgets of more than $10,000. Those institutions may receive 75% of the purchase cost of sets for which no others circulate in the US, or 50% for those which have only one circulating copy in the US. All shipping and handling costs must be covered by the institution in this category.

Online Application Assistance: NCC has created a YouTube
tutorial(http://guides.nccjapan.org/content.php?pid=358
716&sid=2933708#10694597 ) to help applicants understand the steps for conducting a full bibliographic search, required by MVS. To further assist potential applicants in locating eligible title’s NCC has compile a list of high-price multi-volume set
titles(http://guides.nccjapan.org/content.php?pid=35871
6&sid=2933705#15413717 ). The eligibility of second-hand copies has also made it possible for applicants to construct a set through a combination of used and new titles.

Prescreening
Process(http://guides.nccjapan.org/content.php?pid=3587
16&sid=2933708#10296236 ): After completing the required full bibliographic search, applicants may submit titles for prescreening by the MVS Committee.
MVS will then conduct an extensive search of sets not yet cataloged, to double-check the uniqueness of submitted titles. While prescreening is not required for MVS applications, it helps prevent submission of multiple applications for the same title, and institutions that complete the prescreening process have priority over other institutions that may apply for the same title without prescreening.

Please use NCC’s downloadable online template to submit titles for prescreening, emailing their titles to MVS co-chair Tomoko Bialock (tbialock[at]usc.edu) by October 15, 2013. Please note that an application for prescreening is NOT an MVS grant application. A final application, with supporting letters, is required to receive an MVS grant.


Final Application
Process(http://guides.nccjapan.org/content.php?pid=3587
16&sid=2933709#10296237 ): A complete checklist of application criteria and supporting documents for a full application can be found on the MVS homepage at:
http://guides.nccjapan.org/mvs. Please use the final application template provided on the MVS homepage to submit a complete grant application packet by email attachment to: mvs2013-14application[at]nccjapan.net no later than midnight December 20, 2013.

Announcement of MVS Awards will be made by March 1,
2014

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Since 1992 MVS has funded more than 43,000 items now held by 37 institutions in the US. To locate and use MVS titles please use NCC’s fully searchable MVS Database linked to the OPAC records of the holding institutions at: http://www.nccjapan.net/mvs.asp. All MVS funded titles freely circulate nationally via interlibrary loan. The Japan-US Friendship Commission generously funds MVS with supplemental support from Japan Publications Trading Company, Ltd.
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Best,

Tomoko Bialock
MVS Committee Librarian Co-Chair
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Tomoko Bialock, Japanese Studies Librarian East Asian Library University of Southern California
3550 Trousdale Pkwy, Los Angeles, CA 90089-1825 (213)740-8025| tbialock[at]usc.edu
|http://libguides.usc.edu/japanese_studies/

Victoria Lyon Bestor
Executive Director
North American Coordinating Council on Japanese Library Resources
149 Upland Road
Cambridge, MA 02140
Tel: 617-833-0755
Fax: 617-812-5854
Website: http://www.nccjapan.org/
Email: vbestor[at]fas.harvard.edu