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Pacific librarians get funding to attend 2008 PIALA conference
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Posted on Oct 28 2008
Nineteen residents of the U.S.-affiliated Pacific have been selected to attend the 2008 Leaders for Pacific Libraries professional development in Yap, Federated States of Micronesia.
The LPL professional development, funded by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services and directed by Pacific Resources for Education and Learning, will take place Nov. 20–22, 2008, on Yap, as part of the 2008 Pacific Islands Association of Libraries, Archives, and Museums Conference.
The intensive professional development for the LPL cohort will include a three-day postconference workshop on “The Art of Thinking Big: How to Go From an Idea to a Competitive Grant.”
The training will be conducted by Elaina Norlin, manager of New Initiatives and Outreach, OCLC Eastern, and PREL research assistant Mathew Bellhouse-King. Stephanie Gerding, coauthor of Grants for Libraries, will provide virtual training materials for the workshop. All LPL awardees will attend the PIALA conference from Nov. 17 to 19, 2008.
By providing targeted professional development in specific areas of library management to this group, all of whom are preprofessional staff working in libraries, archives, and museums in their home jurisdictions, the LPL training seeks to improve library services across the region.
The 2008 LPL attendees include Perise Toilolo from American Samoa; Kieko Kanemoto from Chuuk; Patricia Aguon-Cruz and Erlinda Naputi from the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands; Lourdes Nededog from Guam; Michael Williams from Kosrae; Mike Chipen, Jennifer Hainrick, Atarino Helieisar, Dosihner Jose, and Karleen Manuel from Pohnpei; Pearl Anien and Sistina Elbon from the Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI); Mary Arius, Sandy Fernandez, Sunshine Garcia, and Imengel Mad from the Republic of Palau; and Erica Ruwepin and Helen Salap from Yap. [B][I](PREL)[/I][/B]
