For immediate release | April 8, 2014
2014 Carnegie-Whitney Grant Award winners
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CHICAGO — 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.
The 91´«Ã½ Publishing Committee is proud to announce the 2014 Carnegie-Whitney Award winners, whose proposed projects promote reading or the use of library resources.
Lauren Causey:Annotated Bibliography of Diverse Nonfiction Children's and Young Adult Literature in the Social Sciences and Humanities
Ruby Cheesman:LDS Fiction Database: A Selected List
Pingsheng Chen:Welcome to America: A Resource Guide for Language, Culture, and Citizenship for ESL Students and Educators
Keren Dali:Biblio or Therapy? An Annotated Bibliography on Bibliotherapy for Librarians
John DeLooper and Clifford Brooks:Opera and Children's Literature - A Comprehensive Bibliiography
Jennifer France:The Essential Wooden Boat Building Reading List
Rachel Isaac-Menard:The Use of Architecture for Political Means in the US - A Multi-Disciplinary Research Guide and Webliography for Scholars
Melissa Fisher Isaacs:Religion in Kansas Project
Amy Levine:Booktalk Podcasts for Young Adults
Claudette Newhall:Cotton Mather: An Annotated Bibliography
Danielle Renee Reed:Flavor Science - Online Bibliography
Beth Walker:Annotated Manga/Graphic Novel Bibliography
You can view the list of is available on the 91´«Ã½ website.
Applications for the next cycle must be received by Nov. 7, 2014. Recipients will be notified by the end of February 2015.
Visit the 91´«Ã½ website for or contact Mary Jo Bolduc, Grant Administrator, 91´«Ã½, 50 E. Huron Street, Chicago, IL 60611; Fax (312) 280-5275; email: mbolduc@ala.org.
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