The Power of Success: Foundation Mulls Further Library Power Support

Staff -- School Library Journal, 11/1/1997

The DeWitt Wallace-Reader's Digest Fund, which funded the $40 million National Library Power Program, said it's exploring ways to continue supporting the school library project. After 10 years in operation, Library Power stopped making new grants in the 1996-97 school year. At a conference in late September with former grantees, DeWitt Wallace President M. Christine DeVita said the organization would not fund Library Power as in the past, when it gave roughly $1.2 million to each new community in the project. But DeVita said her group wants to find ways to continue supporting the program, so as not to lose the momentum created by Library Power's apparent success in revamping school libraries in 19 communities nationwide. The foundation's future efforts could include some type of new grants, said a spokesman. DeWitt Wallace hopes to make a decision within the next nine months.