Need Funding for Conservation?
By Donna DiMichele | August 3, 2011
The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) is accepting applications in the following grant program:
Conservation Project Support
Deadline: October 3, 2011
Prospective applicants are invited to participate in one of two pre-application webinars to learn more about the program, ask questions, and listen to the questions and comments of other participants. The webinar schedule for the Conservation Project Support program is as follows:
Thursday, August 18, 2011, at 3:00-4:00 p.m. Eastern Time
Thursday, September 1, 2011, at 3:00-4:00 p.m. Eastern Time
More information about this funding opportunity, including program guidelines, contacts, and Webinar access information. You can use the IMLS grants search tool to view the archive of grants awarded by the Institute. Search grants by grant name, institution, or project type.
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RI Council for the Humanities Grants Cycle
By Donna DiMichele | August 2, 2011
August 2, 2011 The Rhode Island Council for the Humanities (RICH) announced upcoming Major & Mini Grant opportunities. Non-profit organizations and individual researchers are invited to apply for funding to support projects that promote a greater understanding of the humanities in the state of Rhode Island.
Through its competitive grant programs, RICH aims to stimulate new research in the humanities, spark thoughtful community exchange, build new audiences for the humanities, innovate new methods in the humanities, and advocate for the importance of the humanities in the daily lives of a free and engaged democratic peoples.
Visit RICH for the Fall 2011 Public Projects, Media, and Civics grant cycle deadlines.
To help potential grantees apply, RICH provides grant information workshops across the state. Find out what’s new with the RICH application by attend a workshop with the Grants Director. Workshops will also include tips, strategies, and general guidelines. The workshops are free and open to the public; however, attendees must register to reserve a space. Get the schedule and registration information.
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Share your ideas on the IMLS Strategic Plan
By Donna DiMichele | July 20, 2011
Help the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS)! Currently working on a five year strategic plan, IMLS wants your ideas on how it can carry out its statutory responsibility “to support museum, library, and information services to meet the information, education, research, economic, cultural, and civic needs of the people of the United States.” IMLS is examining all of its grant programs, research, and leadership initiatives to assure that it continues to meet the evolving needs of the American public.
The comment period will continue until Friday, August 12, 2011.
Learn more about IMLS’ strategic planning and use the link to vote.
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RI Library Blogs
By karen | July 15, 2011
Thanks to Kieran Ayton for plugging Rhodarian in his Library Blogs article in the latest issue of the RILA Bulletin. Kieran also pointed out OLIS’ Library Related Blogs in Rhode Island. We’d like to ask everyone’s assistance in sending your library blog to us so we can update our list. With everything going on, we haven’t updated this page for a little while and would like to make sure we include every library blog we can find. Send your entries to the OLIS Webmaster.
Thanks also to Andria Tieman & Corrie MacDonald for their great work in putting together the RILA Bulletin – we look forward to each edition!
Oh, and don’t forget to subscribe to Rhodarian by adding our feed to your Google, Yahoo or any other reader you use. Feel free to send us news of note, too, we’re always looking for content.
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Free collections webinars
By Donna DiMichele | July 13, 2011
Identifying Museum Insect Pest Damage and Cold Storage for Photographs
Two different webinars will feature National Park Service resources and experts. The webinars are part of a special partnership with Heritage Preservation and the National Park Service, designed to bring the advice of their best experts to collecting institutions nationwide. Don’t miss this free opportunity to get advice on behalf of your collections!
The webinars are the next two installments of the Connecting to Collections Online Community series of Q&A Live Events:
1. Identifying Museum Insect Pest Damage and Addressing it with Integrated Pest Management
When: Wednesday, July 20 at 3:00 pm EDT
Led by Barbara Cumberland, Conservator, Museum Conservation Services at the Harpers Ferry Center, National Park Service, and Carol DiSalvo, Integrated Pest Management Coordinator at the National Park Service. Click here to view the featured resources that will be discussed on this webinar.
2. Cold Storage for Photographic Materials
When: Tuesday, August 2 at 2:00 pm EDT
Theresa Anne Voellinger, Paper/Photograph Conservator, Harpers’ Ferry Center, National Park Service will discuss the Connecting to Collections Online Community’s Featured Resource for August – the online video series Cold Storage: A Long-Term Preservation Strategy for Film-Based Photographic Materials.
Join these events, then click “Access Meeting Room” when you are in the site. (OLIS recommends joining the event about 10 minutes before the event is scheduled to begin.)
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Survey supports research on the differently-able
By Donna DiMichele | July 12, 2011
Clayton Copeland is a doctoral candidate in the School of Library & Information Science at the University of South Carolina. Dr. Samantha Hastings is the chair of her dissertation committee.
Ms. Clayton’s research, Equity of Access to Information: A Comparative Exploration of Library Accessibility and Information Access from Differently-Able Patrons’ Perspectives, focuses on the perceptions of differently-able public library users compared to typically-able library users on matters of equity of information access.
Ms. Clayton has developed a survey based on the work of Hernon and others. The survey is open. If you have any questions, you can email them or call 803-351-8095.
Contact information:
Ms. Clayton A. Copeland
School of Library and Information Science
University of South Carolina
1501 Greene Street (Davis College)
Columbia, SC 29208
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RICH to Host RI Center for the Book
By admin | July 5, 2011
The Rhode Island Council for the Humanities (RICH) welcomes the Rhode Island Center for the Book, one of the 50 state affiliates of the national Center for the Book. Currently hosted by the Providence Public Library, the Rhode Island Center for the Book will transition to its new home at the Humanities Council as of July 2011.
The Rhode Island Center for the Book is a statewide organization that promotes community enrichment and literacy by celebrating the art and heritage of reading, writing, making, and sharing books. The organization was established in 2003, as an affiliate of the Center for the Book at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C.
“The Rhode Island Council for the Humanities is proud to host the Rhode Island Center for the Book,” said the Humanities Council Executive Director Mary-Kim Arnold. “Through this partnership, we strengthen each other, and increase our joint ability to support public interest in reading, writing, and Rhode Island’s literary heritage. We are thrilled to welcome the Center for the Book to RICH.”
Founded in 1973, the Rhode Island Council for the Humanities is an independent, state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Its mission is to inspire and support intellectual curiosity and imagination in all Rhode Islanders. The Humanities Council has provided over $6.7 million in grants to support more than 500 organizations throughout the state of Rhode Island, as well as independent researchers, filmmakers, scholars, and oral historians.
“Rhode Island Center for the Book is delighted in their new relationship with RICH,” said RI Center for the Book President Barry Press. “Both share national parentage and a statewide audience. Given both organizations’ statewide roles and missions, we are confident that this partnership will provide a strong position to maintain the current work of the Center and to expand its impact throughout Rhode Island.”
The Rhode Island Center for the Book coordinates four signature programs, made possible by the cooperative effort of Rhode Island readers, writers, publishers, librarians, educators and book artists. The programs include Reading Across Rhode Island, a statewide reading initiative, and the affiliated youth program Kids Reading Across Rhode Island. As part of Letters About Literature, students across the state are encouraged to write letters to their favorite authors. This year, the annual Art of the Book event will feature local poet Forrest Gander, recipient of the of 2011 Library of Congress Witter Bynner Fellowship. The event will take place on September 30th at 7:30pm in the Grand Hall of the RISD Library.
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Some Interesting Facts about Wikipedia
By alicia | July 5, 2011
At the ALA Conference President’s Program on Sunday, June 26th, Sue Gardner, Executive Director of the Wikimedia Foundation presented some interesting facts about Wikipedia.
Did you know that…
• The Wikipedia offices are located in San Francisco, CA and presently employ 75 people.
• Wikipedia has real-time monitoring and relies on over 100,000 people from around the world who add and edit content on a regular basis.
• Most Wikipedians are men and librarians are a welcome group.
• It is most popular in Canada where education levels are high and contributors are affluent.
• There are presently 410 million readers every month.
• Anyone can edit or add content.
• If inappropriate content is added or plagiarism is detected, a warning message pops up when adding content.
• Inappropriate or inaccurate content is removed as soon as it is discovered.
Does any of this make you feel differently about Wikipedia?
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Grant Opportunities from NEH
By Donna DiMichele | July 1, 2011
The Division of Public Programs at the U.S. National Endowment for the Humanities funds humanities projects that are intended for broad public audiences at museums, libraries, historic sites and other historical and cultural organizations. Grants support interpretive exhibitions, reading or film discussion series, historic site interpretation, lecture series and symposia, and digital projects. NEH especially encourages projects that offer multiple formats and make creative use of new technology to deliver humanities content.
New application guidelines are now posted on the NEH web site for our America’s Historical and Cultural Organizations grant competition. The next two deadlines are August 17, 2011, and January 11, 2012.
Program officers in the Division of Public Programs are available to assist you, whether it is to discuss project ideas or to read a draft of a proposal. Please call the NEH Division of Public Programs (202-606-8269) or contact a program officer directly.
(This post was originally prepared by the American Library Association Public Programs office.)
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BookCheck with Mobile Devices
By chaichin | June 28, 2011
It wasn’t too long ago when cell phone usage was considered a disruptive nuisance in libraries. Not any more! With the implementation of QR codes and services such as “Text a Librarian”, cell phone has elevated from a novelty to being a norm in many libraries.
A relative new mobile application in the library world is a product called BookCheck by Boopsie. BookCheck allows library patrons to check out books and other third party resources using their mobile phones. More than 100 libraries and universities offer Boopsie BookCheck at this point. Most recently, Boopsie also works with the American Library Association on mobile apps for conference goers to create personal schedules and to receive feeds from social networking sites anytime during the conference.
Boopsie claimed to be the first and the only mobile solution provider for libraries but we know other companies will follow suit. Is your library considering to open up checkout to mobile devices?
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