1. Wisconsin receives Gates Foundation grant for Spanish language outreach
2. NEA Foundation announces Books Across America library book grants
3. Libraries Love Romance contest launched
4. Website of the Week - Links to the Past
5. Calendar
1. WISCONSIN RECEIVES GATES FOUNDATION GRANT FOR SPANISH LANGUAGE OUTREACH
The Division for Libraries, Technology, and Community Learning (DLTCL) has been notified that Wisconsin will receive $23,400 from the Melinda and Bill Gates Foundation for a Spanish Language Outreach project. The funding will be used to conduct twelve regional workshops throughout the state to help public libraries better serve their Hispanic communities. All of the workshops will be completed before May 2008.
These workshops will be organized and led by four library system consultants who will be trained to conduct these workshops in each region of the state. The trainers are Nancy Fletcher, Waukesha County Federated Library System; Leah Langby, Indianhead Federated Library System; Jamie Matczak, Nicolet Federated Library System, and Marcia Sarnowski, Winding Rivers Library System. The project coordinator will be Barb Huntington, DLTCL's Special Services consultant. The trainers will be contacting systems to arrange for co-hosted workshops in their assigned areas. The schedule and locations for the workshops are expected to be announced in October 2007.
The workshops will use a format similar to that used in 2007 for the Greener Pastures workshops, which were also funded through a Gates Foundation grant. Participants will discuss ways to best connect with the Hispanic community, and to respond to local needs. The workshops will include information on best practices in marketing, programs, outreach activities, and using WebJunction as an on-line resource. The workshops will help librarians explore collaborative relationships with other organizations that already serve the Hispanic community to help raise awareness of public library services.
2. NEA FOUNDATION ANNOUNCES BOOKS ACROSS AMERICA LIBRARY BOOK GRANTS
The National Education Association (NEA) Foundation is making grants of $1,000 to public schools serving economically disadvantaged students to purchase books for school libraries. The applicant must be a practicing preK-12 school librarian, teacher, or education-support professional in a U.S. public school. At least 70% of the students in the school must be eligible for the free or reduced-price lunch program. Deadline for applications is November 12, 2007. Guidelines and application forms are available at http://www.neafoundation.org/programs/BAA_2007.htm.
3. LIBRARIES LOVE ROMANCE CONTEST LAUNCHED
Romance Writers of America has launched a "Libraries Love Romance" contest to reward libraries that have made a significant effort to develop programming or displays highlighting romance fiction in the past year and a half. The winning library in each division will win $500. The contest is open until August 31, 2007.
The contest is open to libraries that hosted events or programs that featured romance fiction, hosted authors, or created new displays for romance titles between January 2007 and June 1, 2007. For contest details go to http://161.58.67.252/Libraries/librariesloveromance.htm.
4. WEBSITE OF THE WEEK
Links to the Past - http://www.cr.nps.gov/ - This site by the National Park Service provides links containing information about people from the past and establishes important connections to the present, and allows visitors to the site to explore America's cultural resources - its buildings, landscapes, archeological sites, ethnographic resources, objects and documents, structures and districts.
5. CALENDAR
September 7, 2007 - Public Library System Annual Meeting, Madison
September 14, 2007 - Council on Library and Network Development meeting, Hayward
September 25, 2007 - Instructional Media and Technology regional meeting, Rice Lake
October 2, 2007 - Instructional Media and Technology regional meeting, Appleton
October 5, 2007 - System Youth Services Liaisons annual meeting, Monona
October 9, 2007 - Instructional Media and Technology regional meeting, Waukesha
October 12, 2007 - Instructional Media and Technology regional meeting, Wisconsin Dells
October 12, 2007 - Library Information Technology Advisory Committee meeting, Madison
October 16-19, 2007 - Wisconsin Library Association Annual Conference, Green Bay
November 9, 2007 - Council on Library and Network Development meeting, location to be announced
For more details about these and other meetings, see the WISDOM calendar at http://dpi.wi.gov/pld/wisdom.html and the BadgerLink and WISCAT training site at http://dpi.wi.gov/rll/wiscat/training.html.
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