Elsevier Foundation Update
New Grants for Library Projects
The Elsevier Foundation awarded the following new grants in October 2003.
- Book Aid International, UK and Sabre Foundation, USA - $25,000 to support the learning needs of students, academics and professionals in Ghana and Tanzania. The grant will provide 4,700 higher education and medical books to selected hospitals, universities and resource centers in Ghana and Tanzania, and 15,000 education and medical books to the Ghana Book Trust.
- Dominican University of California, USA - $18,000 to support its program of Diversity, Women in Science, and Scholarly Communication. The grant will provide access to ScienceDirect to support scholarship and research among students and faculty in this program.
- Resource Center for Pain Medicine and Palliative Care, Beth Israel Medical Center, New York, USA - $25,000 to expand the highly utilized StopPain.org service. This grant will fund a part-time librarian position to expand information resources and make available a wealth of books, articles, charts and CD-ROMs to the global community.
- General Sciences Library, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, (formerly the National Library of South Vietnam) - $25,000 to upgrade the Open Access Computer Center. The library is a central resource providing education and training to library school students and organizations seeking to develop libraries, and more broadly, supporting education and economic development in Vietnam.
- Brooklyn Public Library, NY, USA - $11,500 to expand its volunteer-led Hospital Storytelling Program. Funding will support volunteer storytellers reading aloud to 2,000-4,000 sick children in hospital clinics, wards and waiting rooms across the city’s most populous borough.
- Medical Library Association, USA - $25,000 for the Lindbergh Fellowship Endowment, providing funding for research aimed at expanding the research knowledge base of health science librarians. The Endowment will fund research initiatives that link librarian information services to improved health care and advances in biomedical research.
For further information about program areas and funding applications, visit www.elsevierfoundation.org
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