There are three levels of capacity building in each category. All three can be done in the same residency. A residency could focus on one or more of these. Organizations can have all three levels on separate days or in one day. All three days can be three to eight hours and will only count as one program. If the three levels are done in one day, the time cannot exceed eight hours.

1.  Consultation
2.  Planning
3.  Training

Oral History
By Mary Kay Quinlan
These programs will teach participants how to plan and conduct oral history projects. Skills taught are oral history planning, interviewing, post-interview processing, and using the oral history data.

Book Discussion
By Molly Fisher
This program teaches participants how to organize and facilitate book discussion groups. Participants might be candidates for the list of HRC book discussion leaders. Libraries can also use the program to train their own book discussion leaders. Contact Molly Fisher at 402-488-1240.

Local History
By John Schleicher, Deb Carpenter and Lyn Messersmith
This program teaches organizations how to conduct local history. It helps organizations learn how to do proper research with networking in their areas to enhance the project. Local history projects may include local history books, pictorial history books, exhibits, brochures, films and presentations. Programs can be tailored to needs.

Exhibit Design
By John Schleicher
This program teaches organizations how to plan, research, design, and building humanities based exhibits for museums, parks, visitor centers, and community buildings. In addition, organizations will learn about proper care for artifacts in exhibits, and environmentally safe materials to use in exhibit construction. This program can be tailored for indoor or outdoor exhibits, or both.

Exhibit Programming
By John Schleicher
This program teaches organizations how to plan and implement humanities programming around exhibits. Programming can include presentations, companion exhibits, oral history projects and more.

Developing a Humanities Project
By Nebraska Humanities Council Staff
This program helps organizations design, develop and implement a humanities project. Contact NHC staff at 402-474-2131 or e-mail mary@nebraskahumanities.org or erika@nebraskahumanities.org.