Skills Upgraded through Continuing
Education and Training Grants
Nebraska Library Commission awarded $95,697
in Continuing Education and Training Grants from July 1, 2002
through June 30, 2004 to Nebraska libraries and library
organizations. These grants were awarded to projects providing
training and education for Nebraska library personnel, helping
to ensure that Nebraska libraries have skilled and
knowledgeable information specialists to serve citizen
information needs. Grant projects included:
• Atkinson Public Library
• Bassett, Rock County Public Library
• Battle Creek Public Library
• College of DuPage Videoconferences
• Creighton University
• David City, Hruska Memorial Public
Library
• Digitization Training through Denver
University
• Eastern Library System
• Elgin Public Library
• Fremont, Keene Memorial Library
• Grand Island Public Library
• Imperial Public Library
• LaVista Public Library
• Library Administration and
Management Association Institute
• Nebraska Educational Media
Association
• Nebraska Library Association
• Nebraska Library Association
Paraprofessional Section
• Nebraska Library Leadership
Institute
• Nebraska Regional Library Systems
• Norfolk Public Library
• Omaha Public Library
• Pat Wagner Communications Training
through Regional Library Systems
• Pierce, Lied Pierce Public Library
• Public Library Association
Conference Scholarships
• Read Aloud Nebraska
• Roy Keneagy at Southeast Library
System
• Something Funny at Eastern Library
System
• Tilden, Raymond A. Whitwer Tilden
Public Library
• Wayne State College
• What’s New in Young Adult
Literature Workshop in Iowa
• York, Kilgore Memorial Library
Nebraska Library Commission funded the
Nebraska Library Leadership Institute, offered in conjunction
with Nebraska’s Regional Library Systems.
The Nebraska Library Commission awarded
grant funding to help small public and school libraries
purchase the SOLINET/NEBASE
netLibrary eBook Collection. The
collection includes popularly used titles in subjects ranging
from business and computer science to education, literature,
history, reference, and much more. These resources include
content in subjects suited for academic, public, and secondary
school library customers, as well as the general public. Grant
recipients included:
• Ainsworth Public Library
• Alma, Hoesch Memorial Public Library
• Bassett, Rock County Public Library
• Elkhorn, Mount Michael Benedictine
High School
• Fairbury Public Library
• Gering High School
• Hay Springs Public Schools
• Hemingford Public Schools
• Lindsay, Holy Family School
• Mitchell Public Schools
• Morrill Public Library
• Norfolk, Lutheran High School
• Ogallala High School
• Orchard Public Library
• Ord Township Library
• Pierce, Lied Pierce Public Library
• Paxton Consolidated Schools
• Ponca Public Library
• Scribner-Snyder Community School
• Seward Memorial Library
• Shelton Township Library
• Spalding Public Schools
• Sutton Public Schools
For more information about the netLibrary
collection of eBooks see
<nlc.nebraska.gov/netserv/netlibrary2004.html>.
netLibrary eBook Collections Supported by
Library Commission
Nebraska Libraries for the Centuries
The Nebraska Library Commission Web site
now includes a section devoted to Nebraska library
history, Nebraska Libraries for the
Centuries,
<nlc.nebraska.gov/docs/nlcarchives/nelibrariescenturies.html>.
Nebraska has a long tradition of library service, beginning
with military post libraries and continuing with literary
society libraries founded during Territorial times,
women’s club libraries, Carnegie libraries, college and
school libraries, to the modern libraries of today. The
Nebraska Library Commission Archives, located at the Library
Commission, contain materials about the history and operation
of the Commission and the libraries it has served since the
Commission’s creation in 1901. The collection includes
Commission reports, newsletters, documents, photographs, and
artifacts. Some of these materials have been digitized. Others
are available for research use onsite. For more information
contact Beth Goble, Nebraska Library Commission Government
Information Services Coordinator, 402-471-4017, 800-307-2665,
e-mail: Beth Goble
.
