Thursday, October 13, 2011

Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program

1:03 PM
By Iola Bonggay


The Institute of Museum and Library Services(IMLS) is an independent agency of the US federal government. The IMLS is especially in charge of providing federal support to around 100,000 museums and about 17,000 libraries based in the US.

The effort of IMLS is primarily centered on the creation of strong libraries and museums which could hopefully bridge connections between people, ideas and information.

In line with its goals and mission, the IMLS recently established a funding opportunity to support the Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program.

The Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program revolves around improving then country's information infrastructure via the utilization of funding projects that are designed to address the education and training needs of certain professionals who improve, maintain and give the public instantaneous access to many of the world's vast and wide-ranging information systems and resources.

The main objective of Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program is to hone and develop the potential of faculty and library leaders, to encourage and recruit future librarians and archivists, to make it possible for professionals to conduct research studies, to be able to build institutional capacity in graduate schools of library and information science education, and finally, so as to offer assistance in the professional growth and development of librarians and archivists.

The IMLS is set out to administer grant amounts that range between $50,000 to $500,000 to a few selected applicants who are permitted to participate in this program.

To understand more about the Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program, you can visit the Grant.gov website or go to Topgovernmentgrants.com.

In order to be deemed eligible to make an application for the Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program, you need to:

a) belong to either a unit of State or local government or a private nonprofit organization that has tax-exempt status under the Internal Revenue Code;

b) be based in one of the 50 States of the United States of America, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, the Virgin Islands, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, or the Republic of Palau;

c) become qualified as among the following organizations: a library or a parent organization, an academic or administrative unit, a digital library, a library agency that is the official agency of a state or other unit of government, a library consortium that is a local, statewide, regional, interstate, or international cooperative association of library entities, and finally, a library association that exists on a permanent basis.

The Institute of Museum and Library Services, the principal agency funding the Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program, is the nation's primary source of federal support to libraries and museums. Furthermore, it is also the nation's leader in providing services that are aimed at enhancing learning, sustaining cultural heritage and increasing civic participation.




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