Thursday, October 21, 2010

INFORMATION TO HELP AMERICA'S RURAL LIBRARIES

From: Don Wood [mailto:dwood@ala.org]
Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2010 3:56 PM
To: alacro-l@ala.org
Subject: [alacro-l] INFORMATION TO HELP AMERICA'S RURAL LIBRARIES

The ALA Washington Office will host a webinar to assist rural libraries with pursuing funding opportunities from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) at 2 p.m., EST, October 29.

Cheryl Cook, the Rural Development Deputy Under Secretary of Agriculture, Carla Anderson, the Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of e-Copernicus, a Washington consulting firm expert in broadband, and Kevin Cherry, Senior Program Officer for the Institute of Museum and Library Service’s Office of Library Service will participate.

The presenters will discuss the three USDA programs with funds available for rural libraries – the Distance Learning and Telemedicine program, the Communities Facility program and the Community Connect program.

Click here register for the webinar.