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Wednesday, December 5th, 2012National Leadership Grants-Libraries : Call for Applications The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) is accepting applications for National Leadership Grants-Libraries. Deadline: February 1, 2013 The guidelines for National Leadership Grants-Libraries (NLG-Libraries) have changed this year. Because the program is no longer aligned with National Leadership Grants for Museums, it no longer includes a […]
PLA Survey on Digital Learning Centers
Monday, November 26th, 2012Public Library Association Survey on Digital Learning Centers for Libraries Public libraries and community organizations are becoming the go-to place for digital literacy education. Users come searching for help to understand and use computer programs, printers and other hardware, the Internet (web browsing, e-mail, social media), digital media (cameras, e-readers, music players) and more. PLA […]
Get Published in Library Anthologies
Friday, November 23rd, 2012Two opportunities for writing for a publication have been posted: 1) Pre-School through Teen Library Outreach and 2) How to STEM: Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math Education in Libraries. Deadline for each is December 30, 2012. 1) Pre-School through Teen Library Outreach Book Publisher: McFarland & Company, Inc. Co-editor: Kerol Harrod, Denton Public Library, Denton, […]
Pawtucket Public Library to house collection
Tuesday, November 20th, 2012The collections of the Elizabeth J. Johnson Pawtucket History Research Center (PHRC), presently located in the basement of the Joseph Spaulding House, will be transferred to a dedicated and secure space at the Pawtucket Public Library as soon as the space is finished. After an extensive strategic planning process, which included seeking partnership proposals from […]
LibraryAware Community Award
Monday, November 19th, 2012The LibraryAware Community Award emphasizes the library’s engagement with the community and will recognize a library or library system that has demonstrated its ability to make its community “aware” of what the library can do for it—and has delivered on that promise. The award will be given by Library Journal and funded by LibraryAware, a […]
2013 RI Innovation Fellowship
Thursday, November 8th, 2012Do some of your library users have great ideas about ways to work on Rhode Island based solutions for Rhode Island’s unique (or not so unique) challenges? Perhaps you know someone on the faculty or in the municipal office that has such ideas. The application period the Rhode Island Foundation’s 2013 Rhode Island Innovation Fellowship […]
ACRL NEC Annual Conference Call for Proposals
Tuesday, October 23rd, 2012The Association of College and Research Libraries, New England Chapter (ACRL/NEC) invites submission of proposals its 2013 Annual Conference. This event entitled “Communities in the Cloud, the Commons, and the College” will be held Friday, May 10, 2013 at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts. Whether you call it engagement, outreach, or […]
BBRI Digital Literacy Project
Wednesday, October 10th, 2012Broadband Program Director, Stuart Freiman writes: As a follow up to all the outreach the BBRI Digital Literacy project has done over the last several months, one of the questions that has consistently been raised is that of assessment and certification. Specifically, how do we define digital literacy, assess for it and provide an award […]
Digital Literacy, Libraries, and Public Policy
Monday, September 24th, 2012The Office of Information Technology Policy (OITP) in the American Library Association seeks comments on its digital literacy draft report. The Digital Literacy Task Force is asking library professionals to help them answer the question: what does “digital literacy” look like in a library context? The Task Force, spearheaded by the OITP, is seeking comments […]
Carnegie-Whitney Awards
Tuesday, September 11th, 2012Carnegie-Whitney Awards up to $5,000 The American Library Association Publishing Committee provides a grant of up to $5,000 for the preparation of print or electronic reading lists, indexes or other guides to library resources that promote reading or the use of library resources at any type of library. Funded projects have ranged from popular, general-reader […]
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