The Laura Bush Foundation for America's Libraries
www.laurabushfoundation.org/web2/index.htm provides grants for books to the school libraries and students that most need them. Grants of up to $5,000 are made to individual schools. Preference is given to elementary, middle, or high schools in which 90% or more of the school population receives free or reduced lunch.
Online applications are due December 30.
Anxious to attend ALA Annual 2006, but short on travel funds? New (or lightly-traveled) librarians are encouraged to apply for the Shirley Olofson Memorial Award. Grants of $1,000 will be awarded at the ALA Annual Conference in June. The deadline to apply is January 3, 2006. For more information, visit: www.ala.org/ala/nmrt/applyforfunds/OlofsonFlyer.pdf
The Rovelstad Scholarship in International Librarianship sends a student of library and information science to the World Library and Information Congress of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA).
The scholarship is intended to encourage students who have an interest in international library work and enable them to participate in IFLA early in their careers. The 2006 IFLA annual meeting takes place in Seoul, Korea, in August.
Applications must be postmarked by January 13, 2006. For more information see: www.clir.org/fellowships/rovelstad/rovelstad.html
Happy 40th Birthday NEH!!
www.humanities.gov/nehat40/founding/index.html
The theme for the next round of We the People Bookshelf www.wethepeople.gov/bookshelf/becomingamerican-guidelines.html is "Becoming American." As part of its We the People initiative, the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) is collaborating with the American Library Association (ALA) to present the We the People Bookshelf, a program that encourages young people to read classic books and explore themes in American history, culture, and ideas. Across the nation, 2,000 libraries will receive the Bookshelf titles.
Online applications must be submitted by January 17, 2006; print applications to ALA must follow within 10 days of your online submission.
Past NMRLS member Bookshelf winners are Littleton High School and Swampscott Public Library.
The President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities, in partnership with IMLS, the National Endowment for the Arts, and NEH, invites nominations of outstanding arts and humanities youth programs for a 2006 Coming Up Taller award. Each year Coming Up Taller awards recognize and reward excellence in after-school and out-of-school arts and humanities programs for underserved children and youth. Award recipients receive $10,000 each, an individualized plaque, and an invitation to attend the annual Coming Up Taller Leadership Enhancement Conference.
Programs initiated by libraries, museums, community service organizations, schools, universities, colleges, businesses, arts centers, performing arts organizations, and eligible government entities are invited to participate.
The postmark deadline for nominations is January 30, 2006. For guidelines and nomination application, visit www.cominguptaller.org.
The Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS) has developed new guidelines for its National Leadership Grants for Libraries and Museums www.imls.gov/grants/l-m/pdf/2006_NLG.pdf. IMLS is particularly looking for proposals that will match its new initiative, "Museums and Libraries Engaging America's Youth," focusing primarily on young people ages 9-19. The new guidelines feature a priority for model youth development projects.
The deadline for National Leadership Grants is February 1, 2006.
The American Association of School Librarians and Highsmith announce the AASL/Highsmith Research Grant. Established in 1993, the grant of up to $5,000 is awarded to conduct innovative research aimed at measuring and evaluating the impact of school library media programs on learning and education.
The 2006 application deadline is February 1, 2006. More information is available at:
www.ala.org/aaslTemplate.cfm?Section=highsmithgrant
The Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) welcomes applications for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Access to Learning Award for 2006. Applications must be postmarked by February 28, 2006.
See: www.clir.org/fellowships/fellowships.html
Knowledge River, knowledgeriver.arizona.edu at the University of Arizona School of Information Resources and Library Science is recruiting students for its Fall 2006 Class.
Knowledge River, in its fifth year, is a master's degree program leading to a career as an information professional, focusing on the information and library needs and perspectives of Hispanics and Native Americans. Students accepted into Knowledge River will receive full tuition and a generous graduate assistantship or stipend for one academic year, in addition to other special program features. A bachelor's degree in any field is acceptable. The application deadline is April 1, 2006.
Students wishing to be considered for Knowledge River must be accepted into the SIRLS graduate program www.sir.arizona.edu. Fifteen new students will be admitted to Knowledge River for in the Fall 2006 semester.
Application deadline: April 1, 2006
