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IMLS - National Leadership Grants

Deadline: February 1, 2009

National Leadership Grants (NLG) support projects that have the potential to elevate museum and library practice.

Successful proposals will have national impact and generate results—new tools, research, models, services, practices, or alliances—that can be widely adapted or replicated to extend the benefit of federal investment. The Institute seeks to fund projects that have the following characteristics:

Strategic Impact—Proposals should address key needs and challenges that face libraries and museums. They should expand the boundaries within which libraries and museums operate, show the potential for far-reaching impact, and influence practice throughout the museum and/or library communities.

Innovation—Proposals should demonstrate a thorough understanding of current practice and knowledge about the project area, and show how the project will advance the state of the art of museum and library service.

Collaboration—While partners are not required in all NLG categories, the Institute has found that involving carefully chosen partners with complementary competencies and resources can create powerful synergies that extend project impact. Proposals should show understanding of the challenges of collaboration and propose means for addressing them.

Applications may be submitted in the following categories: Advancing Digital Resources, Research, Demonstration, and Library and Museum Collaboration Grants.

Collaborative Planning Grants are also available in any of the four categories to enable project teams from more than one institution to work together to plan a project for a National Leadership Grant

President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities

Deadline: January 30, 2009 The Coming Up Taller Awards recognize and support outstanding community arts and humanities programs that celebrate the creativity of America's young people, provide them learning opportunities and chances to contribute to their communities. These awards focus national attention on exemplary programs currently fostering the creative and intellectual development of America's children and youth through education and practical experience in the arts and the humanities. Accompanied by a cash award, the Coming Up Taller Awards not only reward these projects with recognition, but also contribute significant support to their continued work.

IMLS Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program

Deadline: December 15

This program supports projects to develop faculty and library leaders, to recruit and educate the next generation of librarians, to conduct research on the library profession, and to support early career research on any area of library and information science by tenure-track, untenured faculty in graduate schools of library and information science. It also supports projects to attract high school and college students to consider careers in libraries, to build institutional capacity in graduate schools of library and information science, and to assist in the professional development of librarians and library staff.

Millennial Net Value(s): Disconnects Between Libraries and the Information Age Mindset(application/pdf Object)

A much better than average report on the relationships between librarianship and the values of libraries and the values held by the media savvy, technology-centered students of today. Describes the two sets of values, and describes how libraries can adabt to the new expectation in meaningful ways.

pg 99 "It is clear that Millennials and others comfortable with a wide range of media and technologies will redefine the traditional manifestations of research and creative activity with these new mashed, cut and pasted creations. For them, the line between consumer and creator is blurred in a way that previously was not possible."

pg 100 "Clear rifts have emerged in the virtual terrain that is occupied by library policies, services and collections and is explored by online users. These rifts or disconnects can be grouped into three classifications for redress. These include technology (infrastructure and integration), policy (copyright, IT policy, liability), and unexploited opportunities."

Customer service excellence : a concise guide for librarians / Darlene E. Weingand.

Weingand, Darlene E. . Customer service excellence : a concise guide for librarians / Darlene E. Weingand. [0838906893 (alk. paper) ] Chicago : American Library Association, 1997.
Call#: Van Pelt Library Z711 .W434 1997

Defusing the angry patron : a how-to-do-it manual for librarians and paraprofessionals / Rhea Joyce Rubin.

Rubin, Rhea Joyce. . Defusing the angry patron : a how-to-do-it manual for librarians and paraprofessionals / Rhea Joyce Rubin. [1555703720 ] New York : Neal-Schuman Publishers, Inc., c2000.
Call#: Van Pelt Library Reference Stacks Z711 .R79 2000

People come first : user-centered academic library service / edited by Dale S. Montanelli & Patricia F. Stenstrom.

People come first : user-centered academic library service / edited by Dale S. Montanelli & Patricia F. Stenstrom. [0838979998 (alk. paper) ] Chicago : Association of College and Research Libraries, 1999.
Call#: Van Pelt Library Z674 .A75 no.53

Putting service into library staff training : a patron-centered guide / Joanne M. Bessler.

Bessler, Joanne M. . Putting service into library staff training : a patron-centered guide / Joanne M. Bessler. [0838934374 ] Chicago : American Library Association, 1994.
Call#: Van Pelt Library Z668.5 .B48 1994

Visible librarian : asserting your value with marketing and advocacy / Judith A. Siess.

Siess, Judith A. . Visible librarian : asserting your value with marketing and advocacy / Judith A. Siess. [0838908489 ] Chicago : American Library Association, 2003.
Call#: Van Pelt Library Z716.3 .S54 2003

About HigheredBlogCon

This brand-new, all-online event aims to bring together in a single Web space many of the leading players who are transforming academe with their use of the new tools of the Social Web.

All presentations will be made available on the event website at no charge to participants (with the exception of the live, web/audio CASE Online Speaker Series events).

Web 2.0: Current Realities and a Look to the Future

Hmmm. Conference on web 2.0 and libraries with some presentations by the big vendors...

ALA | College and Research Libraries journal

open access to C&RL journal (six month delay)

Film Librarian

online database of films featuring librarians...and "Top Ten Films featuring Libraries, Librarians and the Book Arts"

Image of librarians in cinema, 1917-1999 / Ray Tevis and Brenda Tevis.

"This work analyzes the stereotypical image of librarians, in motion pictures from the silent era to the 21st century. The work briefly describes each film, and then examines its librarian, considering every aspect of the total character from socio-economic conditions and motivations for leaving or not leaving the library, to personal attributes, to props, plot situations and lines"

PubSub Community Lists: The Librarian List

a community list of library related blogs with link ranking and stats