Boston.com reports on an NEH grant for $100,000 received by teams of librarians from Simmons Graduate School of Library and Information Science (GSLIS) and Harvard University to help recruit and train Iraqis as librarians over the next two years.
As their country recovers from the devastations of two wars, Iraqi librarians will need to learn the basics of new technologies and methods of research developed over the past two decades. In addition to taking library and archival courses, the Iraqis will work with Simmons and Harvard library specialists on special projects that the Iraqis identify as most needed to rebuild their contemporary and historic collections and to modernize their library systems.
Simmons conducted similar programs in the past in war-torn countries such as Vietnam and Bosnia with phenomenal success.
cha-ching
Considering what it costs to go to Simmons this will cover maybe 4 students.