RFPs and Grant Opportunities
December 13, 2011 | News
Selected opportunities announced by funders during December 2011.
Selected opportunities announced by funders during December 2011.
Open Access Week 2011 at CUNY includes events discussing Open Access Publishing in the Sciences, Using Open Education Materials in Your Courses, Understanding and Protecting Your Rights as an Author and Open Access Scholarly Publishing at various CUNY campuses such as City Tech, Hunter College, Brooklyn College and The Graduate Center.
The legality of making orphan works available to the public was recently challenged by three authors’ groups and eight individual authors in a lawsuit filed against the orphan works partnership and digital works repository HathiTrust and five of its research library partners. Read the ARL resource packet providing information about the core issues in that suit, including the scope and applicability of fair use to orphan works.
The second annual CUNY Librarians L.E.A.D. (Learn to Envision Alternative Directions) workshop took place on May 12, 2011. Intended for CUNY library staff who are or will be in managerial positions, the workshop included topics such as adaptive leadership, effective interpersonal communication, and effective negotiation. A complementary seminar for chief librarians is expected to take place in November, 2011.
The New York State Board of Regents Advisory Council on Libraries has invited input from the library and education communities to inform development of a new statewide plan for library services, asking the question “What’s Your Vision for New York’s Libraries in 2020?”. The following is the text of the response submitted by Curtis Kendrick, University Dean for Libraries and Information Resources.
Strong information literacy skills are ever more crucial to academic success, the effective use of information technology in the workplace, and the development of lifelong problem solving and critical thinking skills. The Office of Library Services is pleased to announce a CUNY Critical Thinking Skills Initiative with support from the Verizon Foundation. The initiative will commence in Fall 2011, with two online information literacy courses for community college students.
Twelve CUNY library faculty members received 2011 PSC-CUNY Grant Awards. The Professional Staff Congress-City University of New York (PSC-CUNY) Research Award Program seeks to further the professional growth and development of its faculty, and to provide support for both the established and the younger scholar.
CUNY was ranked 23rd nationally with respect to the number of papers of research and professional practice published in the leading journals for subject specialist librarians during 2000-2010.
CUNY was one of five institutions across the U.S. selected by the Association of College and Research Libraries to host the program “Scholarly Communication 101: Starting with the Basics.”
Curtis Kendrick, University Dean for Libraries and Information Resources, discusses the impact of the information technology revolution, the effects of the economic downturn and related cost-cutting measures, and why libraries matter more than ever.