Grant to attend 2012 ALA Annual - December 16 deadline

APPLICANTS SOUGHT FOR 3M/NMRT PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT GRANT
Deadline: December 16th

We are excited to announce that members of ALA's New Members Round Table (NMRT) can apply to receive a grant, sponsored by 3M Library Systems, which will cover expenses to attend the ALA Annual Conference, June 21 – 26, 2012 in Anaheim, CA.

Curious about being a 3M/NMRT award winner? Take a look at the 2006
winner's conference journal in Footnotes:
http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/rts/nmrt/news/footnotes/august2006ab/JillRatzan3Mlog.cfm

The application form and further information about the grant is available on the NMRT website at http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/rts/nmrt/initiatives/applyforfunds/3mawardinformation.cfm.
You must be a current member of NMRT in order to apply. To join NMRT, visit the ALA website at http://www.ala.org/ and follow the "Join ALA" link to add to your ALA membership.

For further information about the grant, please contact:
Laura Krier, Chair, 3M/NMRT Professional Development Grant Committee
California Digital Library
laura.krier@gmail.com
510-987-0832

Can't we all use some grant money?

Tammy Ivins, a new reference librarian with Francis Marion University, shared this opportunity for funding for the development of library resources.  Tammy said, "It strikes me as being a good opportunity for new librarians looking for activities to relate to tenure."  Public and school libraries would be eligible for this money as well, so take a good look. 

Carnegie-Whitney Awards up to $5,000

The American Library Association Publishing Committee provides a grant of up to $5,000 for the preparation of print or electronic reading lists, indexes or other guides to library resources that promote reading or the use of library resources at any type of library.

Funded projects have ranged from popular, general-reader proposals such as "ReadMOre," a reading list for Missouri's state-wide reading program, to more specialized, scholarly proposals such as "Librarianship and Information Science in the Islamic World, 1966-1999: An Annotated Bibliography."

Applications must be received by Nov. 4, 2011. Recipients will be notified by the end of February 2012.

For more information and guidelines, visit http://www.ala.org/ala/aboutala/offices/publishing/sundry/alapubawrds/carnegiewhitney.cfm or contact Mary Jo Bolduc, Grant Administrator, American Library Association, 50 E. Huron Street, Chicago, IL 60611; Fax (312) 280-5275; e-mail: mbolduc@ala.org.