[TL-Directors] FW: Developing native American Languages on the Web (grant opportunity)

[MaryKay Dahlgreen]

Dear Tribal Librarians-
Please make sure your language program people know about this, thanks.
MK

MaryKay Dahlgreen
Library Development Program Manager
Oregon State Library
503-378-5012
marykay.dahlgreen at state.or.us





From: Jacques du Plessis [mailto:jacques at uwm.edu] 
Sent: Friday, November 20, 2009 9:25 AM
To: kray at fortmcdowell.org;drosenblum at umail.ucsb.edu;bobbie_smith at cherokee.org;bobbie-smith at cherokee.org;rjensen at tttribe.org;ncai at ncai.org;jeannette.garcia at tonation-nsn.gov;ahkoheka;diane mattingly;roberta moede;nathalee kristiansen;dahlgreen_marykay at oslmac.osl.state.or.us;Lynda Shoshone;jorge.lopez at washoetribe.us;Susan Feller
Cc: Kate Keener
Subject: Developing native American Languages on the Web (grant opportunity)


Since the Tribal Libraries and Museums Conference in Portland, I have worked hard to gear up for an IMLS grant to develop language resources for Native American languages on the Web. The idea is to submit an IMLS Leadership planning grant. The planning grant will focuscto develop strategies and do training etc. so that we can move into a grant for language development of native American languages on the Web. Go take a look at www.openlanguages.net/afrikaans as an example.

Issues: 
1. Submission date is February 1, 2010
2. I am in Africa Jan 4 - 21, so I want to wrap this up by the end of Dec. Thus, we have only a month, including Christmas and Thanksgiving

I want to be as inclusive as possible, so I am reaching out to all of you. 

If your tribe is interested to have open resources on the Web developed, please reply to this email immediately.

Also, if you know of others that might be interested to participate, please forward the email to them.

Deadline: I need you to respond by Thanksgiving, so that we can move ahead to complete the grant application before the year's end.

I am leaving the porch light on for you, so please let me hear from you.

Kind regards, JQ

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Dr. Jacques du Plessis
School of Information Studies
University of Wisconsin (UWM)
Bolton 510 
3210N Maryland Ave
Milwaukee, WI, 53211

Tel 414.229.2856
www.afrikaans.us and www.openlanguages.net
www.sois.uwm.edu/jacques

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