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Development Committee Grants
Grants for Continuing Education Programs
ATLA, in its commitment to support professional education
opportunities, provides continuing education grants for programs. The
Professional Development Committee invites both regional groups
associated with ATLA, and individual institutional libraries, to create
educational programming and apply for a grant.
Eligibility:
There are now two categories of grants available:
A maximum of $750 may be awarded in each category. Grant funds may be
requested for all types of expenses related to speakers. Additional
funding (up to $500) may also be requested to subsidize the costs of
members travelling to the event. Please note that grants
are not available for individuals' projects. Awarded funds should not be
used for lunch/break expenses or parking fees. Suggested honoraria are:
full day, $400-$450, half day, $200-$250, one- to two-hour workshops,
$150-$250. Exceptions should be noted in the application.
Applications:
Applicants may submit their proposal via a
web form or by
printing/copying text
and mailing/emailing the form. Send to Timothy
Lincoln.
Example of a successful application.
Grant applications should be submitted two months before the
scheduled program. Applications will be reviewed by the committee
on a rolling basis. The Professional Development Committee will consult with the
applicant as needed and may ask for revisions. A decision about each
award will be made within four weeks. The committee's budget cycle begins in
October, so there may be more funds available for applications submitted
in fall or winter, and funds may run out, even for excellent proposals.
Funded programs must take place within 12 months of receiving the
award.
Topics and Content:
The members of the
Professional Development Committee can be contacted for ideas.
The committee welcomes requests that reflect traditional library
programs (e.g., lectures, panel discussions, training) as well as other
approaches (e.g., hands-on workshops, consultations plus programming).
Below are some recently funded programs. Note that individual
libraries whose institutions are ATLA members may now apply for grants,
whether or not they belong to a regional group.
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South Florida
Theological Library Association
Integrating Library Services with Consortia |
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Workshop for theological librarians and educators with programming
on the theme of integrating library services among institutions with
consortial agreements and satellite campuses. |
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Grant: $750 |
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Chicago Area Theological Library Association
Reference Resources in Judaica |
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The Chicago Area Theological Library Association
met on Monday, October 14, 2009 for its fall conference, with an
attendance of about 50 members. The conference theme was
"Reference Resources in Judaica," and was hosted by the
Asher Library of the Spertus Institute for Jewish Studies in its
dazzling new facility overlooking Grant Park, at 610 S. Michigan
Ave., Chicago, IL. Members of the Asher Library staff gave
presentations on archival resources, Chicago Jewish history,
analyses and comparisons of major Jewish encyclopedias, and an
overview of reference work and resources in Judaica. |
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Grant: $150 |
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Minnesota Theological Library Association
Serials Management in a Changing Environment |
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The Minnesota Theological Library
Association gratefully received a grant from the ATLA Professional
Development Committee for our Fall Professional Development Workshop,
Serials Management in a Changing Environment. The workshop
was held on November 13, 2008 at Bethel Seminary. It was facilitated
by three members of the serials department at
Macalester
College
in
St. Paul
. The grant funds were used for honoraria for the presenters.
Twenty-one MTLA staff attended the workshop, with all five member
schools represented. Macalester is responding aggressively to the
cost crisis in serials, cancelling titles, obtaining content on a
pay-per-view basis, transitioning from print to electronic
subscriptions for almost all titles over the next few years, and
negotiating license agreements that permit such things as
ILL
, access by walk-in patrons, and perpetual access to content if
cancelled. They are also having their faculty retain copyright
to content they produce. In order to sustain this project,
they have analyzed their operations and eliminated unessential tasks
such as maintaining duplicate resources and accepting gift
materials. MTLA found the presentation clear, bold and
thought-provoking. We recognized the differences between their
context and ours. We also recognized the importance of periodically
(pun intended) reviewing “we’ve always done it this way”
processes and the possibility of responding creatively and
decisively when publishers set their subscription prices at
exorbitant levels. |
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New York Area Theological Library
Association
Web 2.0 and Your Library: Figuring Out What Works |
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Librarians from 13 NYATLA member
libraries heard a presentation by Emily Knox on Web 2.0 and Your
Library: Figuring Out What Works. The presentation had three
parts: method of producing software, business models and
method of using the web. Web 2.0 is more than just applications, it
is a way of harnessing the collective intelligence of the internet,
tagging and using everyone’s knowledge. The article “What is Web
2.0” by O’Reilly was a basis for the first part of the
presentation and helped the librarians to think outside of their own
work environment. The goal is to produce a richer user experience
– are your users getting what they need? Emily reviewed various
web tools such as wikis, blogs, podcasts, videosharing, Youtube,
social networking, Delicious, MYSPACE, FACEBOOK, and flikr.
Emily’s presentation was about librarians going where their users
are – in order to develop communications with these Web 2.0 tools.
Among the member librarians present, the question was where to find
the time to do all of this? |
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Tennessee Theological
Library Association
Information Literacy in Theological Education |
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Grant: $450 |
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Southern California Theological Library Association
Disaster Preparedness |
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Workshop teaching how to prepare a disaster plan for member libraries
and how to set up a consortial disaster supply center. |
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Grant: $750 |
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Report about the Event:
When grants are awarded it is expected that a brief program report
and evaluation will be submitted to the Professional Development
Committee (send to Timothy
Lincoln) within a month after the event occurs. This report is
summarized by the editor of the ATLA Newsletter and included in
the newsletter as well as posted to the ATLA web site. We ask you to
share this information as successful educational programs may be used
elsewhere or even as ideas for future Annual Conference programs.
For further information, or to submit applications, please contact Timothy
Lincoln.
We look forward to receiving your grant proposal!
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