New Jersey: Newark Public Library Foundation Gets $1 Million Grant For Digitization and Literacy Programs
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The Newark Public Library Foundation has received a $1 million, two-year grant from the Carnegie Corp. of New York to digitize its historic collections and to pay for family literacy initiatives.
The library will use some of the funding to digitize its collections on the Latino immigration experience and the 20th century’s Great Migration…
Funding will also be used to develop family-oriented literacy programs for residents.
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Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit. Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com.