Tuesday, October 01, 2002

Grant Deadline Day: "Grant Fever In Illinois. Today is scramble day for Illinois librarians. Applications for LSTA grants are due to the Illinois State Library by 4:30 p.m. The timing of the Illinois Library Association conference at the end of September made an already short time frame even tighter, so librarians across the State are busy Fed Ex-ing the requisite 25 paper copies of their grants or, in some cases where Fed Ex doesn't guarantee same-day delivery, they're driving the paperwork down to Springfield themselves. ..." [The Shifted Librarian] Jenny does a great job on describing the frenzy on grant deadline day and some of the projects that might happen, if they get funded.  For those who didn't submit a grant this year, start putting your ideas into the creativity hopper for next year.   It takes time to brew a good grant idea. 2:53:20 PM

No School Librarians in Springfield? "Schools adjust to no librarians" [LISNews.com] has picked up an article from Springfield, IL on how the school district there cut school librarians as a way to deal with budget cuts.  This is most definitley affecting their public library as well, since the schools now have a very limited library service. 12:25:15 PM

EDUCAUSE: "EDUCAUSE The EDUCAUSE Conference is netcasting som .... EDUCAUSE The EDUCAUSE Conference is netcasting some of the presentations on Wed. and Thurs. Among the presentations are: What's Become of the Digital Library? - Clifford A. Lynch Innovations in Online Learning: Moving Beyond No Significant Difference - Carol A. Twigg The Development and Future of the IT World: Higher Education's Role - Douglas Van Houweling The New Computing--Revisited - Kenneth C. Green" [Catalogablog] This week, Kathryn Deiss of CLS is speaking at EDUCAUSE with Susan Jurow on organizational culture. 12:08:27 PM

PDAs play in Peoria thanks to LSTA grant: Carol Galganski, Tom Peters, and Lori Bell report on the OSF St. Francis Medical Center's PDA project in the October 2002 issue of Computers in Libraries.   OSF St. Francis partnered with the University of Illinois at Chicago's Peoria campus on an LSTA grant that made this a reality.  (Congrats to Lori, Carol, and Tom!) The Museum and Library Services Act, which provides funds for LSTA grants, is currently up for reauthorization.  It's great to have successful projects, like OSF ST. Francis', to use as examples when talking with legislators about the difference that LSTA grants can make in the work that libraries can do for their patrons. 11:50:55 AM

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