The first grant was awarded to Elizabeth L. Marcoux, assistant professor, University of Washington. Marcoux's research proposal, submitted under Research Topic 1- Diversity and Library Service to Children, is designed to establish a template for use in discovering aspects of tribal children's literature that may contribute to its accessibility and proliferation as a communication mechanism for cultural dissemination of tribal interests.
The second grant was awarded to Jane Karp, project director, Library Elderly Outreach (LEO), St. John's County Public Library. Selected under Topic 2- Equity of Access and Diverse Populations, Karp's LEO project, based out of the St. Johns County Public Library System in St. Augustine, Fla., will develop a comprehensive bedside laptop computer course to serve institutionalized older adults who are confined to bed, immobile or with great orthopedic impairments. The project's target group has tremendous difficulty in accessing and utilizing library computer resources because of the degenerating health that affects mobility, hearing, sight, sitting and walking abilities.
The third grant was awarded to Kyung-Sun Kim, assistant professor, School of Library and Information Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Selected for its research properties under Research Topic 3 - Recruitment and Retention of Library and Information Studies (LIS) Students and Faculty, Kim's project, "Recruiting and retaining minorities for LIS schools: perspectives from the minorities," will assess what LIS schools and other library/information professional associations have been doing for the recruitment and retention of minority students, from the minorities' point of view. The project's objectives are to identify successful and unsuccessful strategies that LIS schools and other related associations have used for recruiting and retaining minority students. The project will provide suggestions to improve the recruitment and retention of minority students; which will ultimately contribute to the ethnic/cultural diversity in librarianship. Kim will also use a Web survey method to collect data.
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