Title VI Librarians Meeting
Thursday, November 19, 2009, 10:00 am –
11:00 am
New Orleans,
The Roosevelt New Orleans Waldorf-Astoria,
Collection
Room Chamber
#1
AGENDA
Title VI matters (15
minutes):
Report from Area Directors Meeting
Housekeeping and updates – “strength of library”
receives fewer evaluation points in proposals
Common language for Title VI proposals – brief
update
Budget
Project reports and
proposals (30 minutes):
Liberia
Finish archival processing, including the EAD
finding aid, for the papers of Bai T Moore, Liberian writer, intellectual
($5,750) – Verlon Stone
Phase I: Digitize Reels 1-24 of the
microfilms of the papers of Liberian President William V.S. Tubman and make
available on the Internet: ($10,000)– Verlon Stone
Phase II: Digitize Reels 25-48 of the
microfilms of the papers of Liberian President William V.S. Tubman and make
available on the Internet: ($10,000)– Verlon Stone
Senegal
Proposal to digitize Arabic manuscripts (project
building on our earlier work in Senegal, most notably the West African Training
Pilot, and the planning conference, both organized by Caruso) – Yuusuf Caruso