Information Technology Pathfinder Award

This award recognizes and honors school librarians demonstrating vision and leadership through the use of information technology to build lifelong learners. Applicants must be personal members of AASL.

Monetary amount: $1,000 to the school librarian; $500 to the school library program

There are two divisions; one for the innovative use of information technology in the school library program in an elementary (K-6) setting and one for the innovative use of information technology in the school library program in a secondary (7-12) setting.

Details; due date: February 1, 2014. 

Applications are judged on the basis of:

1. the identification and utilization of technologies which address the needs of the school community;
2. the integration of technology into the school curriculum; and
3. the depth of the impact on student learning.

I Love My Librarian Award (deadline 9/6)

2012 CT recipient Rachel Hyland

I Love My Librarian Award. Deadline: September 6, 2013 - American Library Association (ALA) and the Carnegie Corporation of New York/New York Times.

ALA and the Carnegie Corporation of New York/New York Times are giving $5,000 and recognition at an awards ceremony hosted by The New York Times to outstanding librarians.

 

2012 CT recipient Rae Ann Locke 

Teachers Helping Teachers Award

The Literacy Empowerment Foundation’s Teachers Helping Teachers Award helps teachers acknowledge each other’s ‘good deeds’ with this award.

Examples of good deeds include starting a web site that shows different and exciting ways of teaching specific subjects, presenting at conferences, mentoring new teachers, or volunteering with extracurricular activities.

Individuals may nominate an educator for an award; every week, a new award winner will be chosen. 

LEF will send each winner $100 worth of books for their school, along with a certificate that acknowledges their achievement.

Deadline: Rolling.

Schools/Teachers/LMS: Thomson Gale TEAMS Award

The Thomson Gale TEAMS Award is open to all K-12 public and private school teachers in the United States who have collaborated with media specialists to promote learning and increase student achievement.

Three winners will receive $2,500 and some other stuff from Gale. 

The Award recognizes and encourages the critical collaboration between the teacher and media specialist to promote learning, increase student achievement and develop 21st century skills.

Deadline: 6/30/2013

SIGMS Technology Innovation Award

The SIGMS Technology Innovation Award from the InternationalSociety For Technology In Education  is presented to two teams of a school librarian and collaborating teacher from one primary school, or its equivalent, and one secondary school, or its equivalent each year. 

We're looking for teams who have planned a collaborative project involving technology, received support from administration, and successfully executed the project with supportive data and evidence for others to replicate the project. 

Deadline: February 28, 2013; Award: $2,000

Award winners receive:

• Recognition at ISTE's annual conference and exposition.
• Complimentary registration to ISTE's annual conference and exposition (two per team).
• Up to $1,000 travel stipend for ISTE's annual conference and exposition (one per team).
• A $1,000 cash award payable to the school media center (one per team).
• A $300 professional library from ISTE (one per team).
• A one-year ISTE membership (two per team).
• An engraved plaque recognizing the recipient's outstanding achievement (two per team).
• Recognition in ISTE publications, in press releases provided to local media, and on the iste.org/ website

Carnegie-Whitney Grant

The Carnegie-Whitney Grant provides an award that is based on a special fund first established by Andrew Carnegie in 1902, “the income of which is to be applied to the preparation and publication of such reading lists, indexes and other bibliographical and library aids as will be especially useful in the circulating libraries of this country.” The Carnegie Fund was subsequently enhanced by a merger with a fund established by James Lyman Whitney in 1910. The Publishing Committee, a standing committee of the American Library Association, administers the grant.

The Carnegie-Whitney Grant provides grants for the preparation, either in print and/or electronically, of popular or scholarly reading lists, webliographies, indexes and other guides to library resources that will be useful to users of all types of libraries in the United States.  

Deadline 11/2/12

2013 National Medal for Museum and Library Service

The National Medal for Museum and Library Service honors outstanding institutions that make exceptional contributions to their communities. Selected institutions demonstrate extraordinary and innovative approaches to public service and inclusiveness, exceeding the expected levels of community outreach, and may also include libraries and museums advancing global cultural understanding.

Nominations are due by October 15, 2012 for the 2013 award.

Winners are honored at a National Medal award ceremony held in Washington, D.C.

For more information and to access the nomination form, please go to the program web site.

MAE Trust: Promote Free Reading for Teens

The purpose of the Margaret Alexander Edwards Trust is to award grants to librarians who "promote the free reading of teenagers." There is a whole lot of nothing about the grant, the process, and etc on the site.

Complete the application (a two-page pdf) & mail it to:

Julian L. Lapides, Esquire
Margaret Alexander Edwards Trust
600 Wyndhurst Ave, Suite 246
Baltimore, MD 21210

Yale University's Peabody Museum of Natural History

Congratulations goes out to Yale University's Peabody Museum of Natural History for receiving a $145,299 grant from the Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS) in the 'Provision of Optimum Environment' category. 

Dr. Roger Colten, Collections Manager, Anthropology, will be in charge of the project which will improve care, preservation, and access for 8,000 Oceanic and Asian ethnographic objects by cleaning, conserving, and moving them to new museum cabinets and shelves in an environmentally controlled storage facility. These objects include weapons, tapa, headdresses, jewelry and other body ornaments, clothing, musical instruments, sculptures, and utilitarian objects such as bowls, spoons, and lime containers. The collections have great research potential as a source of information for anthropologists and other scholars studying the people and environment of the areas that have been since been impacted by outside cultures. Upgrading the storage conditions will help ensure the long-term preservation of these materials and dramatically improve accessibility for research, teaching, and exhibition.

IMLS provided 31 Conservation Project Support grants totaling $2,614,183. Recipients are matching these awards with $4,009,698 in non-federal funds. IMLS received 128 CPS applications this year, requesting a total of $9,954,623.

"Conservation Project Support grants provide much-needed assistance to museums in their efforts to protect the collections they hold in trust for the public," said IMLS Director Susan Hildreth. "This year’s CPS awards will help conserve a wide array of collections: paintings, textiles, mosaics, historic artifacts, furniture, manuscripts, photographs, digital recordings, outdoor sculptures, 500-year-old sundials, trees, even live sharks! Conserving and providing access to these and other collections helps to fuel innovation, inspire the development of new knowledge, and boost global understanding."

Roadmaps to Health Prize to Honor Communities

Sponsored by The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute, the Roadmaps to HealthPrize seeks to recognize and honor the efforts and accomplishments of communities working at the forefront of population health improvement. The prize is rooted in the idea that every community is on a unique journey toward better health and that communities' stories of success are as diverse as their populations. Judges will assess each community individually, looking for tangible signs of improvement relative to current health status and available resources.

Up to six awards of $25,000 will be granted to selected communities. Local entities such as businesses, coalitions, government agencies, hospitals or healthcare organizations, local foundations, public health departments, schools, or social service agencies are eligible to submit an application on behalf of applicant communities.

Deadline: May 31, 2012 (Intent to Apply)  

AT&T Initiative Aims to Reduce Dropout Rate

On the plus side, the Local High School Impact Initiative is a noble and worthy enterprise. On the minus side, as with other AT&T opportunities, it’s difficult to find relevant info quickly and succinctly. So if you’re interested in fixing the dropout problem, I encourage you to explore.

AT&T will make multiple awards of $100,000-300,000 over two years to school districts, campuses, nonprofit school district foundations, and nonprofit public charities.

The goal is to fund high school success and college and career readiness programs that are helping to reduce dropout rates in their communities. Take the Pre-Qualification Survey.

The 2012 Local Impact Request for Proposals features an increased focus on metrics, with a preference for programs showing results for those served vs. peer groups, as well as a stronger emphasis on underserved populations.

Deadline: April 18, 2012