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Video Resources (NVR) and the American Library Association (ALA) Public
Programs Office are now accepting grant applications from libraries wishing to
host The Sixties: Americas Decade of Crisis and Change.
This new six-week library program features scholar-led lectures, documentary
film screenings, and readings and discussions on a period of extraordinary
change and social conflict in American history. Twenty-five
libraries will be selected to serve as pilot sites for The Sixties
project. Libraries interested in applying for the pilot site opportunity can
download an application at www.ala.org/publicprograms/sixties/
. Applications must be received by March 28, 2003. Topics
covered in The Sixties series include the Kennedy and
Johnson administrations and Kennedys reform agenda, the civil rights movement,
Americas involvement in Vietnam and the anti-war movement, the counterculture,
and rage and reaction in 1968. Professors John Morton Blum, Sterling Professor
Emeritus of History at Yale University, and Leon Litwick, Morrison Professor of
History at the University of California, Berkeley, will serve as lead scholars
for The Sixties project. The Sixties
is supported by a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities
(NEH). Each
library selected will receive a full set of videocassettes to use in the series
and to keep as a permanent part of their collection; $1,000 to pay honoraria
for local scholars to present the series at the local library; the opportunity
to send a team of two people a library staff person and local scholar to a one
and half day national training seminar on November 7 and 8, 2003 in Oakland,
Calif.; support print materials, including a programmers manual, publicity
materials, and downloadable handouts for participants; and national publicity
for the series as well as a list of potential local co-sponsors. Libraries of
all types are encouraged to apply. The discussion series must be open to a
public audience. The Sixties
builds on three earlier programs developed by NVR in partnership with the ALA
Public Programs Office and funded by the NEH. These programs offer public
library programmers and academics a new model for public discussion through the
following series: From Rosie to Roosevelt: A Film History of Americans in WWII;
Post War Years, Cold War Fears: American Culture and Politics, 1946-60; and
Presidents, Politics, and Power: American Presidents Who Shaped the 20th
Century. For more information on these series, please visit www.nvr.org . National
Video Resources (NVR) is a not-for-profit organization established in 1990 by
the Rockefeller Foundation. NVRs goal is to assist in increasing the publics
awareness of and access to independently produced media & film and video as
well as motion media delivered through the new digital technologies. The
mission of the ALA Public Programs Office is to foster cultural programming as
an integral part of library service in all types of libraries. Established in
1990, the office helps thousands of libraries nationwide develop and host
programs that encourage dialogue among community members and works to establish
libraries as cultural centers in their communities. ALA Public Programs Office Linking
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