Participants must agree to present at least one state-based workshop between July 2000 and July 2001. Participants will learn how libraries, and librarians at all levels, can use library resources to work toward long-term sustainability and positive community development. The Fulbright Scholar Program's annual competition opened March 1 for lecturing and research grants in 130 countries. The Fulbright Scholar Program offers opportunities in all disciplines and professional fields for faculty and administrators from four year colleges and graduate institutions, two-year community colleges and minority serving institutions. Each year's grantees include professionals from the business community and government, as well as artists, journalists, lawyers, independent scholars and many others.
Fulbright awards vary in length of time from two months and longer.
While foreign language skills are needed in some countries, most lecturing assignments are in English. Approximately eighty percent of the awards are for lecturing. Technical Services has always been essentially a user-oriented service, because it acquires, organizes, and distributes the library's collections. However, Technical Services has not always been user-friendly. As we have come to rely on integrated, automated systems for Technical Services functions, and as libraries are assuming the role of electronic resource mediators, instantaneous access to records and to electronic resources is transforming the library catalog from a finding tool for materials in one library to a gateway to a universe of materials.