Associate Professor Shannon M. Oltmann and Professor Maria Cahill were awarded nearly $700,000 in combined grants from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, an independent agency of the United States federal government charged with supporting libraries and museums. Oltmann plans to use the grant for a three-year research project that will examine how public libraries respond to attempts to ban books. Based on Cahill's findings, the team plans to design a professional development curriculum to support secondary school librarians in their efforts to incorporate EBP into their professional practice.
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The State Library has been awarded a grant of more than $246,000 from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as part of the Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program. The grant will be used on efforts to support the psychosocial needs of Iowa library staff and patrons.
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The Biden administration is spending hundreds of thousands of dollars in taxpayer funds to study why minority children read Japanese comic books, part of an initiative to implement "diversity, equity, and inclusion" in the nation's libraries.