Center for Civil Society International ([email protected])
Thu, 1 Aug 1996 10:59:54 -0700 (PDT)
Greetings,
Most of you are acquainted with the Library of
Congress-- Soros Foundations Visiting Fellow Program.
I would like to ask your assistance in disseminating
this announcement to your contacts in Central and
Eastern Europe and the NIS. I already have forwarded
the announcement to AIBIBL, the Polish analog of the
Slavic Librarians Forum. If any of you subscribe to
similar listserves in the other countries of the
region, would you please forward the announcement to
them? Thanks so much for your help.
Ron Bachman
1997 LC-Soros Foundations Board Chairperson
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ANNOUNCEMENT
1997 Library of Congress-Soros Fondations Visiting Fellow
Program
The Regional Library Program of the Open Society
Institute, Budapest, Hungary, and the Library of
Congress, Washington, D.C., U.S.A., invite librarians
and other information specialists in Central Europe,
Eastern Europe, and the Newly Independent States to
apply for the 1997 Library of Congress-Soros
Foundations Visiting Fellow Program. The
three-month program is designed to expose participants
to the workings of the libraries in a democracy and the
concept of open access to information. At the Library
of Congress the fellows will receive general
orientation on the Library and on librarianship in
America, Internet, and management training. An
additional week of training will be held at the
Mortenson Center for International Library Programs at
the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign.
Each fellow will then spend seven weeks at one of
several host institutions in the Washington
metropolitan area. These institutions will provide
training, work experience, and Internet access. The
Fellows will observe firsthand how national,
university, public, research, and special libraries in
a democratic society operate and serve their
constituencies. The final week of the program will be
spent at the Library of Congress writing reports and
evaluations of these experiences.
Funding for the fellowship is provided by the Regional
Library Program. Applications for the program will be
available at local Soros Foundation offices after June
1, 1996. The deadline for applications to arrive at
local foundation offices is September 6, 1996.
Knowledge of English is essential. Local offices will
administer the Test of English as a Foreign Language
(TOEFL) to determine eligibility.
For further information, please contact:
Melissa Hagemann
Open Society Institute
Budapest 114
P.O. Box 10/25
1525
Hungary
telephone: (36 1) 327 3100
fax: (36 1) 327 3101
email: [email protected]
Also consult these web sites:
(Open Society Institute) http://www.soros.org/hungary.html
(Library of Congress)
http://lcweb.loc.gov/loc/soros/soroswww.html
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