CFP: http://imls.gov/applicants/grants/21centuryLibrarian.shtm
Deadline: December 15, 2010
Funding: $50,000-$1,000,00
This program supports projects to develop faculty and library leaders, to recruit and educate the next generation of librarians, to conduct research on the library profession, and to support early career research on any area of library and information science by tenure-track, untenured faculty in graduate schools of library and information science. It also supports projects to encourage careers in librarianship, to build institutional capacity in graduate schools of library and information science, and to assist in the professional development of librarians and library staff. All members of the library community are invited to play an active role in ensuring that the profession is prepared to meet the challenges of the 21st century by recruiting a new generation of faculty and librarians, preparing library leaders, and strengthening graduate schools of library and information science.
Categories of funding include Doctoral Programs; Master’s Programs; Research (including both research on and about the library profession and workforce, and Early Career Development); Preprofessional Programs, Programs to Build Institutional Capacity; Continuing Education; and Planning Grants.
