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  • Lone Star Grant Pushes Austin Library’s Reach
    By Lauren Barack - 02/08/2010
    Austin Public Library’s (APL) youth services group gets together each year to figure out a budget for its wildly popular summer reading program, and every year it gets scrapped because there's not enough money. Luckily, a recent $300,000 grant from the Lone Star Libraries will meet this summer’s need. More
  • President Obama Proposes Eliminating Federal School Library Funds
    By Debra Lau Whelan - 02/01/2010
    President Obama has delivered a slap in the face to school librarians. In his FY2011 budget proposal to Congress on Monday, he completely eliminated the Improving Literacy for School Libraries grant program, designed to boost academic achievement by providing students with access to up-to-date school library materials. More
  • Parent Volunteers to Play Larger Role in Dearborn Public School Libraries 
    By Lauren Barack - 01/25/2010
    Students in Dearborn, MI, may be seeing their parents in the school library more often than the librarian. More
  • Pasadena Proposes Eliminating School Libraries
    By Lauren Barack - 01/20/2010
    Students in the Pasadena Unified School District (PUSD) may be facing school days without a library under a proposal to balance the district’s $20 million deficit. More
  • First Round of Broadband Stimulus Funds Announced, Three Awards to Libraries
    By Norman Oder - 12/30/2009
    Story from Library Journal: The first of many broadband stimulus funds awards have been announced, and libraries are among the earliest grantees, though a relatively small percentage thereof. More
  • Money Hungry: These Web resources help you through the grant seeking process
    By Gail Junion-Metz - 11/01/2009
    ALA Grants & Fellowships bit.ly/1lNIAb The American Library Association (ALA) has created numerous grants and awards to help support programs and provide funds to individuals wanting to attend professional meetings. This handy page provides links to not only ALA grants, but also awards sponsored by the various divisions, including PLA (Public Library Association), YALSA (Young Adult Library... More
  • How Are You Doing?: A librarian fights to retain positions in her district
    11/01/2009
    I fought for the retention of our elementary librarians this past year. I did everything I knew how to do and still 100 percent of the positions were cut (10 librarians covering 18 schools). We now have volunteers that are “running” the show. When I found out cuts were in the air, I contacted [author] Ann Martin, she wrote letters to our superintendent, commissioner of education, an... More
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