Kongresszusi Konyvtar - Soros Alapitvany osztondij

[Anita Komlodi]

        ** Elnezest a tobbszori postazasert **

Kedves Lista,

Alabb kuldom az 1999-re ismet meghirdetett Kongresszusi Konyvtar - Soros
osztondij kiirasat es nehany egyeb informaciot, amit mi, a volt
osztondijasok hasznosnak veltunk. A tervek szerint ez lesz az utolso ev,
hogy magyarorszagi konyvtarosok palyazhatnak az osztondijra. Az osztondij
3 + 1 honapra szol, ebbol harom honapot a resztvevok az Egyesult Allamok
Kongresszusi Konyvtaraban, illetve mas amerikai konyvtarban toltenek
Washington, DC-ben es a kornyeken. A programban mar negy magyar konyvtaros
vett reszt, a tapasztalatainkrol szolo beszamolo a Konyv, konyvtar,
konyvtaros augusztusi szamaban jelent meg. Barmilyen egyeb kerdesre
szivesen valaszolunk az osztondijat illetoen (lasd email cimek alabb).
Az osztondij nagyon sok erdekes tapasztalattal jar, a palyazast szeretnenk
minden erdekolodo figyelmebe ajanlani.

A kiiras szovege, valamint a palyazati urlapok az alabbi URL-en is
megtalalhatoak:

http://www.osi.hu/nlp/announcement.html

A magyarorszagi Soros osszekoto:

Arnold Istvan
Soros Foundation-Hungary
Bolyai utca 14
1023 Budapest
tel. (36 1 ) 315 0303
fax. (36 1 ) 315 0201
e-mail: arnold at soros.hu

Udvozlettel,

Deak Nora, ndeak at osiris.elte.hu
Komlodi Anita, komlodi at glue.umd.edu
Krasznai Marta, krasznai at oszk.hu
Varga Gaborne (Krisztina), vargakr at isis.elte.hu


        ANNOUNCEMENT

The Network 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 countries with Soros
foundation offices (see the countries listed below) to apply for the 1999
Library of Congress - Soros Foundations Visiting Fellows Program,
March-June 1999.  In 2000 the program will shift its focus to specific
geographic regions.  The program seeks persons who occupy or are likely to
occupy positions in which they can influence and promote change within
their institutions and in librarianship throughout their region.

The first three months of the program in the United States are designed to
expose participants to the workings of libraries in a democracy and the
concept of open access to information.  The program is seeking
participants who will return to their countries prepared to share their
newly acquired information with their colleagues through oral and written
presentations.  At the Library of Congress the Fellows will receive
general orientation to the Library, librarianship in America, the
Internet, and management training in a four-week period.

Each Fellow will receive a seven-week work assignment at one of several
host institutions in the Washington metropolitan area.  These institutions
will provide training, work experience, and Internet access.  The Fellows
will learn firsthand how national, university, public, research, and
special libraries in a democratic society operate and serve their
constituencies.  Written reports and evaluations of these experiences will
be expected before the end of the host library internship.

An additional week of training will be held at the Mortenson Center for
International Library Programs at the University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign.  The Fellows will spend their final days in Washington
at the Library of Congress for program review and conclusion.

Upon returning home the Fellows will continue the program, conduct
seminars and workshops with the support of their home institution, local
foundation office, and library association.  This effort to share new
knowledge and promote librarianship at home constitutes the final month of
the program.

Funding for the fellowship is provided by the Network Library Program.
Applications for the program will be available at local Soros foundation
offices beginning August 5, 1998.  The deadline for applications to arrive
at local foundation offices is November 6, 1998.  Knowledge of English is
essential.  Local offices will administer the Test of English as a Foreign
Language (TOEFL) to determine eligibility.

List of participating countries:
Albania         Estonia         Romania         Yugoslavia
Bosnia          Hungary         Russia
Bulgaria        Latvia          Slovakia
Croatia         Lithuania       Slovenia
Czech Republic  Poland          Ukraine

Dear Applicant:

The Library of Congress and national Soros foundations are pleased to
announce the competition for the 1999 Visiting Fellows Program based in
the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area.  This program will bring twelve
librarians and information specialists from fifteen countries in Central
and Eastern Europe to the Library of Congress and participating libraries
for three months of intensive training.  Funding of the program has been
made possible by a generous grant from the Network Library Program of the
Open Society Institute, Budapest.

Please review the program announcement before completing the application
form which follows.

The Library of Congress-Soros Foundations Visiting Fellows Program
represents a significant endeavor to respond to the challenges of
providing access to global information via the Internet and library
services in Central and Eastern Europe.  The Library of Congress has
watched the rise of an enormous demand in this region to obtain training
in the most recent advances in library and information science in light of
the recognition that nations cannot flourish without a well-informed and
knowledgeable citizenry.  The Library of Congress--a model parliamentary,
national, and universal library--along with our library partners in the
Washington area can provide excellent training opportunities and
experience for the future information, library, and cultural leaders of
Central and Eastern Europe.

Selection of Visiting Fellows is highly competitive and requires fluency
in English.  The Library of Congress and Soros Foundations is advertising
the program to libraries and library education programs as well as
appropriate institutions and university departments throughout Central and
Eastern Europe.  Fellows who are not librarians will be required to have
some familiarity with the field.  This program is designed to provide
technical training to librarians and information specialists from abroad
and will require complete attention to study and work at the Library of
Congress and their host institution.  Therefore, it is not recommended
that family members and friends visit during the fellowship.  Nor will it
be possible for the Visiting Fellows to take on additional assignments
from their home institutions or to make use of the Library of Congress'
collections for their own personal projects during working hours.

This program is designed to benefit the Visiting Fellow, participating
libraries in the Washington area, and librarianship in the home countries.
Visiting Fellows should be prepared to provide up-to-date information on
the changing publishing scenes, state of libraries and librarianship, and
new acquisitions sources in their countries to the American scholarly and
library communities.  Most importantly, Visiting Fellows upon returning
home are expected to share the knowledge, materials, and training they
have received abroad with colleagues at various institutions throughout
their nation, and to discuss the central role that libraries play in
building an open, democratic society.  The 1999 Visiting Fellows will join
seventy former Fellows in building valuable links between American
libraries and their own library and scholarly communities.  These links
will become increasingly important as technology draws the world closer
together.

We look forward to hearing from you.

Sincerely,

James H. Billington
The Librarian of Congress