Dear colleagues,
We have identified an opportunity for an IASL team to submit a grant
proposal to the Misk Foundation of Saudi Arabia under its Challenge to help
students identify and initiate projects to make their communities better.
Because we represent students around the world, the grant-seeking team will
position teacher-librarians as the ideal facilitators as youth identify
problems and seek information toward solutions. Project results and methods
will be shared around the world so that other schools can do similar
projects.
Our concept involves two advisory teams: The Research Team will create the
materials and electronic project records for use by interested schools and
analyze the results. The Schools Team will help identify schools,
librarians, students, and teachers to be a part of our project.
We will send the Request for Proposal (RFP) from the Misk Foundation and a
very basic draft for how we might address this project to any interested
IASL members.
If we are funded, the initial meetings will be held virtually with any
others at organized during another event so that we do not use the funds
for travel. This project will help students learn to get questions answered
and share information virtually, so we should be able to build the project
the same way.
Like IASL's GIggleIT Project and International School Library Month, this
project will be organized by IASL members and open to all interested school
librarians worldwide.
If you would like to volunteer for this project, please tell Blanche (
blanche.woolls@xxxxxxxx) whether you would like to be part of the Research
Team, Schools Team, or both.
Time is of the essence! Please send your interest by 5 April. We have a
proposal submission deadline of 2 May 2018 and want to list
our Team members in the grant.
Thank you,
Katy Manck, President, Past President, IASL
Blanche Woolls, Past President, IASL
