1. Wisconsin tribal library receives LSTA Native American Library Services Enhancement grant
2. Public and state library surveys to be transferred to IMLS on October 1
3. Every Child Ready to Read PR Kit now available
4. New PRIME TIME Family Reading Time grants available
5. Lois Lenski Covey Foundation Grant
6. EdVest promotes Wisconsin Higher Education Day
7. Website of the Week - College Navigator
8. Calendar
1. WISCONSIN TRIBAL LIBRARY RECEIVES LSTA NATIVE AMERICAN LIBRARY SERVICES ENHANCEMENT GRANT
Fourteen Native American tribal communities and Alaska Native villages received LSTA grant awards totaling $1,753,300 to improve library services to their communities, announced Anne-Imelda M. Radice, Ph.D., Director of the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS).
One of those grants was awarded to the Lac Courte Oreilles (LCO) Ojibwa Community College library, both an academic and a public library housed in a new 10,000-square-foot space at the college. The grant funds will be used to improve library access and services to the community and to the four satellite outreach campuses of the LCO Ojibwa Community College. The library will become a full member of the Northern Waters Library Service Merlin Consortium, which will provide access to the other 29 member libraries' collections in addition to LCO Library materials. Library services will be introduced to the four outreach sites by providing training, computer stations, core resource materials, and intercampus loans. Collection development will continue to provide for the varied needs of the entire community and to contribute to meeting the necessary criteria for public and college libraries.
2. PUBLIC AND STATE LIBRARY SURVEYS TO BE TRANSFERRED TO IMLS ON OCTOBER 1
The Public Libraries Survey (PLS) and the State Library Agencies Survey (StLA), formerly part of the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), are being transferred to another federal agency, the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), effective October 1, 2007. NCES and IMLS have worked cooperatively to implement this transfer.
Beginning October 1, 2007, information about the state and public library surveys will be available on the IMLS website: http://www.imls.gov/statistics/statistics.shtm.
For Academic and School Library information, please continue to visit the Library Statistics Program located on the NCES website: http://nces.ed.gov/surveys/libraries/.
3. EVERY CHILD READY TO READ PR KIT NOW AVAILABLE
Promotional materials are now available to help libraries publicize and promote Every Child Ready to Read @ your library materials and workshops to parents, grandparents, preschool teachers, childcare providers and others in your community who are interested in early childhood literacy.
The Public Library Association (PLA) and the Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC) jointly developed the Every Child Ready to Read @ your library program to provide public libraries with vital tools to help prepare parents for their critical role as their child's first teacher. Based on research from the PLA/ALSC Early Literacy Initiative, the three Every Child Ready to Read programs were developed to target parents and caregivers of children ages 0-2 years-old (Early talkers), 2-3 years-old (Talkers), and 4-5 years-old (Pre-readers). Since the program's training and materials were introduced in 2004, hundreds of libraries have held programs for parents and caregivers to prepare them to help their children get ready to read.
The public relations kit contains customizable templates for a poster, tabletop signs, bookmarks, flyers, newsletter articles, Web site copy, news release, a letter to send to preschool teachers and child care providers, logo and photos from the Every Child Ready to Read brochures that can be used in your publications and on your Web site.
The kit can be downloaded from http://www.ala.org/everychild, by clicking on "Workshops," then "Marketing Materials." You may then customize and use the materials to promote Every Child Ready to Read programs and services available at your library.
4. NEW PRIME TIME FAMILY READING TIME GRANTS AVAILABLE
Created by the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities (LEH) in 1991, PRIME TIME Family Reading Time is an award-winning reading, discussion, and storytelling series based on illustrated children's books. National expansion is made possible through a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and is a cooperative endeavor with the ALA Public Programs Office.
PRIME TIME is designed specifically for under-served families with children aged 6 to 10. Pre-reading activities are also available for pre-school children aged 3 to 4. The program helps low-income, low-literate families bond around the act of reading and talking about books. It models and encourages family reading and discussion of humanities topics, and aids parents and children in selecting books and becoming active public library users.
New grants for this series are now available. Statewide organizations including state libraries, state humanities councils, centers for the book, and library associations are invited to apply. For the first time, applications are also invited from library systems.
The guidelines and application in pdf format may be downloaded from http://www.ala.org/ala/ppo/currentprograms/primetime/2007NEH_PT_RFP.pdf.
The deadline for receipt of applications is November 1, 2007.
5. LOIS LENSKI COVEY FOUNDATION GRANT
The Lois Lenski Covey Foundation, Inc., annually awards grants to rural and urban public and school libraries serving at-risk children. Awards range from $500 to $5,000, and are awarded to libraries with real need and limited book budgets to purchase books for young people. The purchases can be used to expand the greater collection or to focus on specific areas.
The organization does not have its own web site, but the 2-page application, due October 15, 2007, is available for download in PDF format from the New York Library Association web site: http://www.nyla.org/content/user_3/loislenskygrant.pdf.
For more details about the grant, contact Joel D. Sharrow with Moses & Singer LLP at (212) 554-7809.
6. WISCONSIN HIGHER EDUCATION DAY OBSERVED OCTOBER 9
State Superintendent Elizabeth Burmaster, Governor Jim Doyle, Lieutenant Governor Barbara Lawton, Secretary of State Doug LaFollette, and State Treasurer Dawn Marie Sass have collaborated to proclaim October 9 as Wisconsin Higher Education Day, with many activities scheduled across the state designed to inspire students of all ages to reach for post-secondary education as a goal, and to raise awareness about the many financial aids, savings, and support available to help. More information is available through the HED website http://highereducationday.wi.gov/.
EdVest, the state-sponsored "529" college savings program administered by the State Treasurer's Office, is one of the sponsors/partners for Higher Education Day. EdVest is undertaking an outreach campaign in October to make families aware of the value and multiple tax benefits of saving in advance for higher education expenses through "529" plans. As part of this effort, a new 13-minute DVD has been created, explaining the program and answering the most commonly-asked questions people have about it.
Next week the State Treasurer's Office will be distributing a copy of the EdVest DVD to each library in the state along with a letter and EdVest brochure, requesting that it be made available for check-out. For more information, please contact Megan Perkins in the Treasurer's Office at (608) 266-3712.
7. WEBSITE OF THE WEEK
College Navigator -- http://collegenavigator.ed.gov - This new website from the U.S. Department of Education offers consumers information on colleges in an easy-to-use format. It provides information on nearly 7,000 postsecondary institutions in the United States -- programs offered, retention and graduation rates, prices, aid available, degrees awarded,
campus safety, and accreditation. Searches can be conducted by programs
offered, degrees offered, institution type, price, selectivity, distance from home, school size, institutional mission (historically black colleges and universities, single-sex), extended learning opportunities for adults (weekend and evening degree programs), and intercollegiate athletics programs offered. The website makes it possible to compare up to four institutions in one view, and maintain a list of favorite institutions from different searches.
8. CALENDAR
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 8, 2007 - System Continuing Education and Certification Consultants annual meeting, Madison
November 9, 2007 - Council on Library and Network Development meeting, Cross Plains
November 14-15, 2007 - Library Services and Technology Act Advisory Committee meeting, Madison
April 6-8, 2008 - Wisconsin Educational Media and Technology Association spring conference, Milwaukee
April 16-18, 2008 -- Wisconsin Association of Academic Librarians annual conference, Manitowoc
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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