Application Deadline: June 22

Project Description

The Network Women's Program (NWP) and the Network Library Program of the Open Society Institute/Soros Foundations are pleased to announce a network-wide competition for library core collections in gender/women's studies and women's issues.

During the gender/women's studies workshops at the NWP's first Forum in Budapest in September 1997, participants from national foundations, gender/women's studies programs and women's NGOs articulated a need for substantial collections of basic and advanced international literature on women. Wanting both to learn from previous developments/experiences and to adapt them appropriately to local contexts, representatives of women's groups and programs identified book collections as one of the essential ingredients for starting/expanding their endeavors.

These needs fit well with the mandates of both the Network Women's and Library Programs. The Network Library Program's "Targeted Collections" area is designed to further develop a library's existing collection in a specific field. The long-term goals of the NWP's "Women and Education" area are:

• to provide resources for integrating gender-sensitive perspectives at all levels of education, including public education;
• to promote library development: enhance existing collections, integrate women's studies literature into mainstream collections, and provide new collections for alternative sites, such as women's NGOs.

• gender/women's studies classics (20 sets)
• advanced international gender/women's studies literature (10 sets)
• women's issues books for women's NGOs that have public outreach or educational activities (20 sets)

Eligibility

• Institutions, not individuals, may apply.
• Applicant institutions must be located in the countries of the OSI Network, as well as Belarus and Turkmenistan.
• Applicant institutions must have facilities where collections will be open to the public.
• All applicants must demonstrate prior commitment to gender/women's issues.
• Gender/women's studies programs, projects, or centers--whether university-affiliated or independent--may apply for gender/women's studies classic or advanced sets.
• Women's NGOs working on a broad range of issues (including but not limited to women's information centers) may apply if they have conducted prior public outreach or educational activities.

Applicant institutions should apply to the Network Library Program.

Applicants should send one copy (electronic preferred) of the completed application form IN ENGLISH to the Network Library Program [email protected].

Send applications via fax to: Kristina Murai, Library Program, at 361-327-3101.

Send applications by mail to:

Kristina Murai, Library Program, Open Society Institute-Budapest,
Oktober 6. ut.12, H-1051
Budapest, Hungary.

Kristina Murai may be reached by phone at 361-327-3835.

IT IS THE APPLICANTS' RESPONSIBILITY TO MAKE SURE THAT THE APPLICATION ARRIVES BY JUNE 22.

The APPLICATION DEADLINE is June 22, 1998.

A selection committee of NWP and NLP staff and advisory board members will review applications and select 50 institutional recipients in July. The NWP will notify recipients in July and arrange ordering and shipping of books in August. Recipients must confirm receipt of books no later than AUGUST 30, 1998.

Reporting

By December 15, 1998, institutions that receive collections must submit a two-page report to the NWP and the NLP containing the following:

• a detailed description of how the collection was used
• numbers and descriptions of types of users of the collection
• days and hours the collection was open
• educational activities in which the books were used z future needs for library development
• assessment of the usefulness of the books in the collection

PROCEDURE & CONTACT INFORMATION

     CONTACT NAME:                            ORGANIZATION NAME: 
     ORGANIZATION ADDRESS: 
     COUNTRY: 
     PHONE: 
     FAX: 
     E-MAIL:

     Book collections will be shipped in August.  AS A CONDITION OF THE 
     AWARD, APPLICANTS MUST CONFIRM RECEIPT OF THE BOOKS TO THE NWP/NEW 
     YORK OFFICE NO LATER THAN AUGUST 30.


     SHIPPING ADDRESS (if different from above in August 1998): 



     COUNTRY: 

     

     In an application of NO MORE THAN 3 PAGES, please answer the following 
     questions:

     1. Which core collection are you applying for? ____ Gender/women's 
     studies classics
     ____ Advanced international gender studies literature ____ Women's 
     issues books for NGOs

     2. Describe briefly the history of your program or organization, its 
     current work and its primary audiences.

     3. Describe the scope of your organization's current collection of 
     gender/women's studies books.  Approximately how many books and 
     journals do you have?  What subjects are they about? 

     4. How will you use the book collection? Who is the audience for this 
     collection?  

     5. How will you make the books accessible to the public?  What days 
     and hours will the collection be open?  

     6. Have you ever received books from any other source?  If so, which 
     organization and when?  

     7.  How will you publicize the availability of the collection?  Do you 
     have a reading area?

Kristina Murai
Program Assistant
Network Library Program
Open Society Institute
Oktober 6. ut.12,
H-1051 Budapest, Hungary
Phone: (361) 327-3835
Fax: (361) 327-3101
E-mail: [email protected]

Timetable

May 22
NWP & NLP send WPCs/Library program coordinators the applications for Library Core Collections project, to be advertised among NGOs and gender/women's studies centers.

June 22
Library Core Collections applications deadline.

July 15
Announcement of NGOs and gender/women's studies centers who are to receive library core collections.

August
Shipping of collections. Send confirmation of receipt to NWP.

August 30
Awardees must confirm receipt of collections no later than August 30.

December 15
Send two-page report on how books were used and by whom from September to December 1998.

Last updated: May 22, 1998

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