DEADLINE EXTENDED FOR APPLICATION TO INSTITUTE FOR LIBRARY

[Emmy Dunsker <edunsker@INTERACCESS.NET>]

Emmy Dunsker- Graduate Assistant
School of Information Science
University of South Florida
edunsker@interaccess.net

ANNOUCEMENT: DEADLINE FOR INSTITUTE ON LIBRARY SERVICES TO MIGRANT AND
SEASONAL FARMWORKERS IN FLORIDA HAS BEEN EXTENDED!!

The University of South Florida, School of Library and Information Science
is sponsoring an Institute to train public librarians and media specialists
to work with itinerant farmworkers within the state of Florida.  The
original deadline for application to the Institute was set for February
2nd, 1998 and has been extended till March 2, 1998.  To apply, please
register on-line at the following web address:
http://www.cas.usf.edu/lis/migrant/application.html  To receive more
information regarding the Institute access the following URL:
http://www.cas.usf.edu/lis/migrant/MIGRANT.html (frames version) OR
http://www.cas.usf.edu/lis/migrant/Migrant_2.html (non-frames version).
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ANNOUNCEMENT: INSTITUTE ON LIBRARY SERVICES TO MIGRANT AND SEASONAL
FARMWORKERS IN FLORIDA

The University of South Florida, School of Library and Information Science
will sponsor a week-long summer institute to train librarians and media
specialists in Florida to serve migrant and seasonal farmworkers and their
families.  With approximately 200,000 or more migrant and seasonal
farmworkers, Florida has the third largest population in the nation.

The Institute will assist participants to acquire the following skills:
* Develop communication strategies associated with language and cultural
differences.
* Create collection policies and procedures that are responsive to
information needs.
* Produce collaborative guidelines for working with social and
public/private service agencies.
* Model service programs to increase participation of this population in
library related activities.
* Create a network of trained information professionals who will further
facilitate such programs in other library communities.

The Institute is funded under a Title II-B Higher Education Act grant of
$46,003 from the U.S. Department of Education.  Space for the Institute is
limited to a total of 40 participants.  Principal investigators for the
project are Marilyn Stauffer and Derrie Perez from the School of Library
and Information Science, University of South Florida.

WHERE AND WHEN?

This institute is scheduled for June 14-19, 1998 (SUNDAY AFTERNOON - FRIDAY
MORNING) at the Best Western Hotel, Tampa, Florida (NEAR BUSCH GARDENS).
All expenses including meals, hotel accommodations, notebooks, CD-ROM
materials, and transportation to a migrant housing site will be sponsored
by the grant. Participants are expected to provide their own transportation
to and from the Institute.

FURTHER INFORMATION AND APPLICATION PROCESS

Space for the Institute is limited to 40 participants including media
specialists and public librarians within the state of Florida.  A website
is designed to permit interested persons to submit applications on-line.
The address of the site is as follows:
http://www.cas.usf.edu/lis/migrant/MIGRANT.html.  Applications may be
requested by writing to the following:

Marilyn Stauffer, Derrie Perez, or Emily Dunsker
School of Library and Information Science
University of South Florida
4202 E. Fowler Avenue
Tampa, FL  33620

For further information on this Institute, please call the School of
Library and Information Sciences, University of South Florida: (813)
974-3520.  You may also send an email message to Emily Dunsker,
edunsker@interaccess.net.

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Care of the Soul (1994).
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