13490 Federal Register / Vol. 62, No. 54 / Thursday, March 20, 1997 / Notices

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

[CFDA Nos. 84.036A and B]

Library Education and Human

Resource Development Program

(Higher Education Act, Title II–B,

Institutes and Fellowships); Notice

Inviting Applications for New Awards

for Fiscal Year (FY) 1997

Purpose of Program: The Library

Education and Human Resource

Development Program promotes high

quality library and information science

education and provides fellowship and

institute grants to institutions of higher

education and library organizations or

agencies to recruit, educate, and train

persons, and to establish, develop, or

expand programs, through courses of

study or staff development in library

and information science. For FY 1997

the competition for new awards focuses

on projects designed to meet one or

more of the priorities listed in the

‘‘PRIORITIES’’ section of this notice.

Eligible Applicants: Institutions of

higher education, library organizations,

and library agencies.

For Fellowship Projects for FY 1997,

only new Master’s degree level

applications will be accepted.

Deadline for Transmittal of

Applications: 5/9/97.

Deadline for Intergovernmental

Review: 7/9/97.

Applications Available: 3/20/97.

FISCAL INFORMATION

CFDA number and name Available

funds

Estimated range of

awards

Estimated

average

size of

awards

Estimated

number of

awards

84.036A, Institute Projects ................................................................................... $900,000 $15,000–$150,000 $82,000 12

84.036B, Fellowship Projects ............................................................................... 900,000 22,000–88,000 44,000 21

Note: The Department is not bound by any estimates in this notice.

Maximum Award: For Fellowship

Projects, in no case does the Secretary

make an award greater than $88,000 for

a single budget period of 12 months.

The Secretary does not consider an

application that proposes a budget

exceeding this maximum amount.

Project Periods

(a) Institute Grants. A long-term

institute project must provide at least

one academic year but no more than 12

months of training; a short-term

institute project must provide at least

one week but no more than six weeks

of training.

(b) Fellowship Grants. A new

fellowship grant at the master’s level

must be at least one academic year.

Applicable Regulations: (a) The

Education Department General

Administrative Regulations (EDGAR) in

34 CFR Parts 74, 75, 77, 79, 82, 85, and

86; and (b) the regulations for this

program in 34 CFR Part 776.

Priorities

Absolute Priorities: Under 34 CFR

75.105(c)(3) and 34 CFR 776.5 the

Secretary gives an absolute preference to

applications that meet one or more of

the absolute priorities in this notice.

The Secretary funds under this

competition only applications that meet

one or more of these priorities.

Institute Projects and Fellowship

Projects

Absolute Priority 1—To recruit,

educate, train, retrain and retain

minorities in library and information

sciences.

Absolute Priority 2—To educate, train,

or retrain library personnel in areas of

library specialization where there are

currently shortages, such as school

media, children’s services, young adult

services, science reference, cataloging,

and library service evaluation.

Absolute Priority 3—To educate, train,

or retrain library personnel in new

techniques of information acquisition,

transfer, and management of

communication technology.

Institute Projects Only

Absolute Priority 4—To educate, train,

or retrain library personnel to serve the

information needs of the elderly, the

illiterate, the disadvantaged, or

residents of rural America, including

Native Americans.

Invitational Priority: Within the

absolute priorities, the Secretary is

particularly interested in applications

that meet the invitational priority in the

next paragraph. However, an

application that meets this invitational

priority does not receive competitive or

absolute preference over other

applications (34 CFR 75.105(c)(1)).

To educate, train, or retrain library

personnel in managing collaborative

efforts with other libraries and

educationally-centered organizations,

e.g., museums, Girl Scouts, Boy Scouts,

Head Start centers, and especially k–12

schools, for the purposes of promoting

reading and library services to children,

young adults, and their parents and

caretakers.

For Applications or Information

Contact: Chris Dunn or Judy Stark, U.S.

Department of Education, 555 New

Jersey Avenue, N.W., Room 300,

Washington, DC 20208–5571.

Telephone (202) 219–2299 or 219–2284.

Individuals who use a

telecommunications device for the deaf

(TDD) may call the Federal Information

Relay Service (FIRS) at 1–800–877–8339

between 8 a.m. and 8 p.m., Eastern time,

Monday through Friday.

Information about the Department’s

funding opportunities, including copies

of application notices for discretionary

grant competitions, can be viewed on

the Department’s electronic bulletin

board (ED Board), telephone (202) 260–

9950; on the Internet Gopher Server (at

gopher.//gcs. ed.gov); or on the World

Wide Web server (at http://gcs.ed.gov).

However, the official application notice

for a discretionary grant competition is

the notice published in the Federal

Register.

Program Authority: 20 U.S.C. 1021, 1032.

Dated: March 14, 1997.

Marshall S. Smith,

Acting Assistant Secretary for Educational

Research and Improvement.

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