Purdue Libraries News

Deadline: September 15, 2010

Funding: $5000-$15,000/year for 1-3 year projects

CFP: http://www.elsevierfoundation.org/ILDC%20guidelines.html

The Elsevier Foundation supports the efforts of libraries to enhance the quality of life in developing countries by advancing knowledge in science, technology and medicine.  The Foundation provides one, two and three year grants to libraries in the developing countries and supporting organizations in the following areas:

§ Programs to enhance library infrastructure, technology or information services in ways that significantly enhance their ability to make STM (scientific/social sciences, technical and medical) information available to those who need it — researchers, clinicians, students, policymakers and the wider public.

§ Programs that enhance or expand library information resources in the developing world through digitization or preservation of information that advances science, health, the environment, and indigenous knowledge.

§ Training and education programs, for library staff, students or researchers, contributing to sustainable improvements in the library’s capacity to provide STM information in the developing world.

§ Partnerships between libraries in the developing countries and institutions in the developed countries to provide technical assistance or training.  Developed country partner organizations include libraries, learned societies, universities, intergovernmental organizations and other non-profit organizations.

Proposals are welcome for single-year grants in amounts between US$5,000 to US$50,000  and will be accepted for multi-year programs (up to three years) for grant amounts of US$5,000 to US$50,000 per year. The Elsevier Foundation will also reserve a percentage of the 2010 grant funding for projects under $15,000. Proposals should be focused and well-defined, and must address each of the following elements in the online application on www.elsevierfoundation.org . The online application form will be available in August 2010.

Deadline: July 16, 2010

Award: Funding for one doctoral student for an academic year (4 awards total)

The Cyber Center and Computing Research Institute (CRI) are pleased to solicit proposals for the Cyber Center Special Incentive Research Grant (Cyber Center-SIRG) program. This is a one year award (August 2010 to July 2011) for a doctoral student, with a total of (4) being awarded. Please see the attached document for the terms of the Cyber Center-SIRG award.
The proposal should be limited to 5 pages and must address the following points:

1. A description of the proposed work.
2. The strengths of the student to be funded.
3. The proposals should be multidisciplinary and collaborative in nature. The Cyber Center is especially interested in supporting high quality research projects that have the potential to enhance Purdue’s visibility in Data Intensive Science and Engineering and/or High Performance Computing (further described below).
4. The proposal should state how the work done under this award will lead to a proposal for external funding that would be submitted through the Cyber Center.
5. Preference will be given to proposals submitted by two faculty members from two departments. Also, preference will be given to those who have not received a Cyber Center-SIRG fellowship support for a student in the past two years.

Students supported by a Cyber Center SIRG award will be required to

A. Make a poster presentation at a Cyber Center poster session.
B. Create a web page describing the project that will be linked to from the Cyber Center web page.
The webpage should acknowledge Cyber Center-SIRG.
C. Make a presentation in the Cyber Center/CS&E seminar series 2010-2011 and submit copies of
publications resulting from this award. Publications resulting from this award will be listed in
Cyber Center’s HPC@Purdue publication list.
D. Discuss the project in our exit interview at the end of the project period.

Within our most recent history, there has been an exponential growth in the volume of data captured by instruments and sensors, generated by HPC computational models, etc. The Cyber Center wants to encourage continued investment within HPC areas of research, but also to expand research opportunities to include Data Intensive Science and Engineering. DISE is approaching the growing volume of data through three basic activities: capture, curation, and analysis. Novel approaches in scalable computational processing, visualization, validation, multidisciplinary collaboration, provenance, accessibility and sustainability are required to open the door for new and unanticipated applications. We expect continued federal funding for HPC research, and a new thrust in federal funding for DISE. The Cyber Center is very interested in proposals responding to this call that will position Purdue to compete for such external funding. With this in mind, preference will be given to proposals that address these needs and are of relevance to the research community.

Please submit your proposals in the standard format with a cover page. Do provide the name of the
doctoral student to be supported by this Cyber Center-SIRG on the cover page. Proposals are due in the Cyber Center office (Campus Mail: Young 928) by Friday, July 16, 2010, with an electronic copy sent to ckmoore@purdue.edu. A Cyber Center panel will review proposals and choose the recipients. Proposers will be notified on Friday, July 30 whether or not their proposal is selected.

CFP: http://tinyurl.com/2g52gm5

Deadline: LOI by 2/15/2011, 5-page preproposal by 4/12/2011, 7/1/2011 final proposals

Funding:$9.8M for two cycles (this is the second cycle)

Note: Planning grants were awarded in the first year; these deadlines are for project grants only.

The MacArthur Foundation provides support for efforts to strengthen higher education in Russia and Nigeria, two of the Foundation’s focus countries, as well as Madagascar. The Foundation believes that strong universities and intellectual freedom are indispensable preconditions for healthy democratic societies.

The MacArthur Foundation’s higher education initiative in Africa involves Nigeria and Madagascar, where the Foundation works with leading universities to strengthen them and advance their contributions to development in the continent. The initiative partners with four universities in Nigeria — the University of Ibadan, Ahmadu Bello University, Bayero University, and the University of Port Harcourt — and the University of Antananarivo in Madagascar, the country’s leading higher education institution.

Building upon work with the universities to improve institutional capacities in areas such as information technology, libraries, staff development, and university advancement, the Foundation’s current grantmaking focus is developing flagship departments within these institutions. The goal is to strengthen these departments through integrating the universities into relevant disciplinary networks with other universities and institutions in Africa and beyond, thus promoting the exchange of best practices in research, training, teaching, and curriculum. Grantmaking emphasizes disciplines that are strategic to the universities’ institutional development and that have direct relevance to development in Nigeria, Madagascar, and the sub-Saharan African region.

The Foundation is committed to sustaining and advancing new generations of scholars and researchers whose efforts will contribute to resolving the social, environmental, economic, human rights, and security problems facing Russia.

Through grants to universities and to helping build other scholarly capacity, the Foundation supports:

* Centers of excellence in the sciences and social sciences at state universities;
* Independent graduate schools in the social sciences and other institutions of higher education;
* Independent public policy institutes; and
* Journals and networking.

Through the Program on Basic Research and Higher Education in Russia, the Foundation supports 20 research and education centers in the natural and physical sciences at state universities in Russia, with a particular emphasis on universities outside Moscow and St. Petersburg. Through a complementary program, the Centers for Advanced Study and Education, MacArthur supports nine additional centers of excellence in the social sciences and humanities at regional Russian state universities. MacArthur funds three model non-state institutions of higher education that are emerging as centers of world-quality research and graduate training in the social sciences: the European University at St. Petersburg, the Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences, and the Moscow-based New Economic School.

In addition, the Foundation supports a complementary set of research and educational institutions and activities in Russia, including independent public policy institutes, scholarly journals, and academic networks. MacArthur also provides grants to independent public policy institutes, academic journals and networking programs.

CFP: http://neh.gov/grants/guidelines/pet.html

Deadline: July 1, 2010

Funding: $125,000 per award

Preservation and Access Education and Training grants support activities such as workshops that address preservation and access topics of national significance and broad impact, such as

collections care training for staff members who are responsible for the day-to-day care and management of humanities collections;

preventive conservation and sustainable preservation strategies;

disaster preparedness, response, and recovery;

the preservation of and provision of access to recorded sound and moving image collections;

digital preservation; and

best practices for enhancing and integrating access to collections in libraries, archives, and museums.

CFP: http://neh.gov/grants/guidelines/HCRR.html

Deadline: July 15, 2010

Funding: $350,000 for up to 3 years

CFP: http://imls.gov/applicants/grants/SparksIgnition.shtm

Deadline: November 15, 2010

Funding: up to $25,000 per project, 1-year projects, no cost share or indirect allowed

The Sparks! Ignition Grants for Libraries and Museums initiative is a new funding opportunity developed by IMLS to expand and test the boundaries of library, archive, and museum services and practices. It provides small, targeted investments in high-risk, innovative responses to the challenges and opportunities facing cultural heritage institutions in a rapidly changing information environment. Innovation is the key to using time, money, and staff more productively, and to helping cultural heritage institutions improve their services, processes, programs, and products. These grants will support the testing of specific innovations and foster broad sharing of information about what works and what does not. Because innovations can emerge in a variety of settings, the Sparks! Ignition Grants initiative is structured to encourage participation by organizations of all types and sizes. Partnerships are permitted, but not required.

Applicants may propose activities or approaches that involve risk, as long as the risk is balanced by significant potential for improvement in the ways institutions serve their communities.

Examples of projects that might be funded by this program include, but are not limited to:

• exploring the potential of highly original, experimental collaborations,
• testing inventive new workflows or processes that may result in substantial cost savings,
• rapid prototyping and testing of new types of software tools, or creating useful new
• ways to link separate software applications used in libraries, archives, or museums,
• research that involves the deployment, testing, and evaluation of a specific innovation, and
• offering innovative new types of services or new service options to library, archive, or museum visitors.

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.

Number: RFA-LM-10-001

CFP: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-LM-10-001.html

Letter of Intent: June 14, 2010

Deadline: July 14, 2010

Funding: 5-7 awards from $700,000 total, 1-3 year projects

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) solicits resource grant applications for projects that will bring useful, usable health information to health disparity populations and the health care providers who care for these populations. Access to useful, usable, understandable health information is an important factor during health decisions. Proposed projects should exploit the capabilities of computer and information technology and health sciences libraries to bring health-related information to consumers and their health care providers. Preference will be given to applications that show strong involvement of health science libraries.

CFP: http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Grants

Deadline: June 30, 2010

Funding: $1000-10,000 per project

Creative Commons is investing up to $100,000 to empower individuals and communities deeply rooted in the principles of openness and sharing. With the Catalyst Grants program, Creative Commons will seed activities around the globe that support our mission. Our goal is to scale our community’s efforts and support them in becoming self-sustainable. Through a rigorous public review and transparent evaluation process, the best proposals, submitted by CC Jurisdiction Teams and the broader community, will be selected to receive $1,000–$10,000 to make their ideas a reality.

CFP: http://www.nps.gov/history/hps/treasures/

Award: up to $700,000 from $14M total in funding

Deadline: May 21, 2010 (grants.gov)

Save America’s Treasures grants are available for preservation and/or conservation work on nationally significant intellectual and cultural artifacts and nationally significant historic structures and sites. Projects must meet the program Selection Criteria.

Grants are awarded through a competitive process to eligible applicants. A dollar-for-dollar, non-Federal match is required. The minimum grant request for collections projects is $25,000 Federal share; the minimum grant request for historic property projects is $125,000 Federal share. The maximum grant request for all projects is $700,000 Federal share. In 2006, the average Federal grant award to collections was $132,000, and the average award to historic properties was $223,000.