#library grants

[the-random-sentence-library]

“Remember public service announcements and the new opportunities that the Web provides.”

Quote randomly selected from page 146 of Herbert B Landau's nonfiction book Winning Library Grants: A Game Plan.

Additional notes: This quote is itself a quote from the introduction to Susan Roman's 2006 book The Big Book of Library Grant Money.

Quote was selected at random from a book chosen at random from my local library.

[libraryjournal]

Denver CO (SPX) Dec 20, 2016 - The Space Science Institute was awarded a grant from the Moore Foundation that will provide 1.26 million solar viewing glasses and other resources for 1,500 public libraries across the nation. They

[whatthelibrariansaid]

Please research maggot farming and let me know how it fits with this grant request

[libraryjournal]

A new pilot study by DePaul University scholars in collaboration with the Chicago Public Library (CPL), has received one of 18 National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Digital Humanities Start-Up Grant awards. Reading Chicago Reading: Modeling Texts and Readers in a Public Library System plans to use data from One Book, One Chicago (OBOC), CPL’s robust 15-year-old community reading program—including circulation statistics, social media data, neighborhood demographics, and textual data—to analyze reading patterns for OBOC books and develop a predictive modeling tool to help drive CPL’s collection development and future OBOC choices.

[libraryjournal]

Wow! End of an era.

[librarianbyday]

Mark Your Calendar The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), the primary federal funder of the nation’s 123,000 libraries, is launching a series of meetings to hear from a broad range of stakeholders about future IMLS funding strategies, particularly for the agency’s National Leadership Grant program. The kickoff event, to be held at the New York Public Library on April 29, will examine how IMLS can best support national digital initiatives. IMLS Deputy Director for Libraries Maura Marx will lead the series of nationally webcasted meetings with library leaders and other experts. IMLS invites broad participation via the webcasts and social media. Library professionals and the public are invited to view live webcasts of the meeting and to participate via Twitter at #imlsfocus.