Monthly Archives: February 2012

On February 8, 2012, the NE State Records Board voted to open the grant program for Fiscal year 2012-2013.

The deadline for receipt of grant applications for consideration by the NE State Records Board will be Monday, April 9, 2012, 4:00 p.m. CST.

The Board has determined that the grants may be used for the creation or enhancement of electronic access and delivery of government services and information, but not to fund ongoing operations.  One of the Board’s highest priorities is to encourage collaboration and projects which can ultimately be used in multiple jurisdictions with minimal modification.

For more information go to:  http://www.staterecordsboard.ne.gov/grants.html

Liu & DB Enterprises, Inc. has been added to the Library Commission’s Discounts on Books & Supplies page.

Liu & DB Enterprises, Inc. is a wholesale distributor of CD/DVD Media and Packaging. The company is a Nebraska family-owned company in La Vista, Nebraska near Omaha. We are one of the largest suppliers of media packaging in the US as regards to the varieties of products. LDB carries over 1,000 media and packaging products at our 32,000 sq. ft. La Vista facility and serves both domestic and international customers.

Pricing for Nebraska libraries will be wholesale pricing for items such as brand new, high quality 1 to 14 capacity DVD cases.

For more information, including ordering instructions, see the company’s entry on the Discounts on Books & Supplies page.

The Library of Congress has announced its Long-Range RDA Training Plan, which outlines the process that will be used to train LC catalogers to work with Resource Description and Access (RDA), the cataloging rules designed to replace AACR2. The plan also includes a target RDA implementation date of March 31, 2013. An announcement about the plan, as well as the full text of the plan itself, is available on the Library of Congress web site.

The ALA Public Programs Office, the Tribeca Film Institute (TFI) and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) are pleased to announce America’s Music: A Film History of Our Popular Music from Blues to Bluegrass to Broadway, a six-week series of public programs featuring documentary film screenings and scholar-led discussions of twentieth-century American popular music. Libraries and non-profit organizations related to music and music history may apply by March 14 to receive a $2,500 grant to support the program series. Online applications can be submitted at www.grants.gov.

The program for libraries and other non-profit organizations is offered though collaboration with TFI and NEH, in consultation with the Society for American Music (SAM). America’s Music will introduce genres of twentieth-century American popular music that are deeply connected to the history, culture and geography of the United States. Older and younger Americans alike will have the chance to recognize how the cultural landscape that they take for granted today has been influenced by the development of the popular musical forms discussed in this series. The six sessions focus on these uniquely American musical genres: blues and gospel, Broadway, jazz, bluegrass and country, rock ’n’ roll, mambo and hip hop.

Applicants for America’s Music: A Film History of Our Popular Music from Blues to Bluegrass to Broadway must register their institution at www.grants.gov. Prospective applicants are advised to register with www.grants.gov as soon as possible, since the process can take up to two weeks to complete. More information to help begin the application process for America’s Music: A Film History of Our Popular Music from Blues to Bluegrass to Broadway may be found at www.ala.org/programming/americasmusic. Online applications must be completed by March 14.

Fifty libraries and non-profit organizations will be selected to participate in the national initiative and receive a programming grant of $2,500, a full set of the DVDs for the series, including public performance rights and programming and promotional support materials and resources from ALA and TFI for the duration of the project. The selected sites will be required to designate an appropriate project scholar who will act as a moderator for the project. All programs must be open to the public. Applications that incorporate local partnerships and supplemental programming are strongly encouraged. For more information, visit www.ala.org/programming/americasmusic.

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ALA Public Programs Office
www.ala.org/publicprograms
publicprograms@ala.org

CHICAGO – As libraries throughout the country continue to expand their collections for diverse communities, thousands will celebrate El día de los niños/El día de los libros (Children’s Day/Book Day), also known as Día, on April 30, 2012. Libraries from coast-to-coast will host celebrations with family programs, including bilingual story hours, book giveaways and other literacy events.

School and public libraries can promote Día with free publicity tools offered by the Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC).  The Día Publicity Tool kit includes a number of templates libraries can use to publicize Día activities including a Press Release Template,  PSA Templates, Letter to the Editor Template, Proclamation Template, Flyer Template, Talking Points,  Logos  and downloadable Audio PSAs featuring Día founder Pat Mora.  All are available at http://www.ala.org/news/mediapresscenter/presskits/eldiapresskit/diapubtools.

Participating libraries can also register their events and receive complimentary stickers and buttons to use for their Día events.

A Resource Guide is also available on the Día website to help librarians interested in creating Día programs and celebrations. The Guide contains program models and resources for many librarians who are new to Día, or have been celebrating Día for several years.

Día is sponsored by the Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC), a division of the American Library Association, and is an enhancement of Children’s Day, which began in 1925.   Children’s Day was designated as a day to bring attention to the importance and well-being of children.  In 1996, nationally acclaimed children’s book author Pat Mora proposed linking the celebration of childhood and children with literacy thus the inception of El día de los niños/El día de los libros.

Through Everyone Reads @ your library grants from the Dollar General Literacy Foundation, the Association for Library Service for Children (ALSC) continues to increase public awareness of the event in libraries throughout the country. ALSC is collaborating on this effort with the Founding Partner of Día, the National Association to Promote Library and Information Services to Latinos and the Spanish Speaking (REFORMA).

For book lists and additional information on Día please visit http://dia.ala.org .

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Macey Morales
Manager Media Relations, ALA
312-280-4393
mmorales@ala.org