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The United States Institute of Museum and Librarty Services Laura Bush 21st Century Librariamn Program willaward $989,4965 that will be used to train 50 new schoolp library specialists for Wisconsin’e rural and high-need urban public schools. This was the only grantr awardedin Wisconsin. The consortium, which has its administrative officezat , includes library sciencer programs at University of Wisconsin campuses in Whitewater, Madison, Eau Claire, Superiot and Oshkosh. The grang will continue and expand a program that startef about 12 years ago to help teachersa from rural communities learn the latest technologies and qualif for licensesas librarians.
Stafv members of those schools oftehn find it difficult to spend blocks of time on university campuses so the consortium provides education opportunities on weekends and in the summe r throughoutthe state, said Anne who coordinates the five-campus program with fello faculty member Eileen Schroeder. “Each campus takes a couple of courses and we all agre on acommon curriculum,” Zarinnia said in a “What we want to do is to help the schoolk librarians be information specialists in a world wherse the whole field of information is changing.
” The Institutre of Museum and Library Servicese is the primary source of federal support for the nation’s 123,000 libraries and 17,500 museums.