For immediate release | October 18, 2016

Deadline approaching for Carnegie-Whitney Grant

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The 91´«Ã½ Publishing Committee is offering a grant of up to $5,000 for the preparation of print or electronic reading lists, indexes or other guides to library resources that promote reading or the use of library resources at any type of library.

Applications for the Carnegie-Whitney Grant must be received by Nov. 6, 2016. Recipients will be notified by the end of February 2017.

Funded projects have ranged from popular, general-reader proposals such as "ReadMOre," a reading list for Missouri's state-wide reading program, to more specialized, scholarly proposals such as "Librarianship and Information Science in the Islamic World, 1966-1999: An Annotated Bibliography."

More are available on the 91´«Ã½ website or by contacting Mary Jo Bolduc, Grant Administrator, 91´«Ã½, 50 E. Huron Street, Chicago, IL 60611; Fax (312) 280-5275; email: mbolduc@ala.org.

Contact:

Mary Jo Bolduc

Senior Administrative Assistant

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Publishing AED (PUB)

mbolduc@ala.org

(312) 280-5416