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Ornholt, Ruth – 2001
In 2000, Stately grants, earmarked to cover 50% of operational costs and purchases of mobile libraries in Norway, were proposed to be canceled. An intense lobby resulted in a transfer of operational costs to block grants. Grants toward the purchase of mobile libraries in Norway no longer exist. This paper discusses whether it is possible during…
Descriptors: Bookmobiles, Economic Factors, Foreign Countries, Grants
Utah State Library Div., Salt Lake City. Dept. of Community and Economic Development. – 2002
This document presents the evaluation report for Utah's Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) program for 1998-2002. Part I, "Executive Summary," describes the evaluation study process and summarizes recommendations related to goals in the following areas: (1) basic library technology; (2) enhanced library technology; (3) PIONEER:…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Grants, Information Technology, Library Development
Crosby, Barbara S. – 1992
This summative evaluation of the Public Library Services to Disadvantaged Populations Grant program describes how the grant program is meeting its stated objectives, how it is contributing to library development in Texas, and how Texas State Library activities and policy impact the program. The Texas State Library initiated this grant program with…
Descriptors: Adults, Disadvantaged, Eligibility, English (Second Language)
Parkinson, Linda L.; Burton, Annie Laurie – 1990
The grant received for the Literacy Program of the Twin Falls (Idaho) Public Library (approximately $24,000) has contributed to the overall improvement of the library system afforded by construction of a new addition planned for completion in February 1991. Grant funds supporting the literacy program complemented funds from a bond issue for…
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Cost Effectiveness, Educational Technology, Federal Aid
Zweizig, Douglas L.; Hopkins, Dianne McAfee – 1999
This book presents the results of an evaluation of Library Power, an initiative of the DeWitt Wallace-Reader's Digest Fund that provided support for school library development in 19 communities. Following an introductory chapter, the chapters are organized around key questions of the evaluation. Chapters 2 through 4 address the implementation of…
Descriptors: Course Integrated Library Instruction, Curriculum Development, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education
Saint Olaf Coll., Northfield, MN. – 1992
In a 3-year, federally-funded program, faculty at St. Olaf College (Minnesota) have developed a series of behavioral and natural science courses in which students with at least the fourth semester of foreign language do a portion of the course readings in the second language and meet once a week to discuss them in that language with the regular…
Descriptors: Behavioral Sciences, College Curriculum, College Second Language Programs, Curriculum Development