The Saul O Sidore Memorial Foundation, a private non-profit charitable trust located in Bedford, N. H., announces the award of three grants to municipal libraries in New Hampshire. The semiannual grants are part of a long-term commitment to providing funding for libraries, in towns with fixed resources, for limited projects that help to improve the libraries' service to their constituency.

The new grants have been awarded to the public libraries of Goffstown, Newmarket, and Plain-field. The Goffstown Public Library will receive a grant of $1,295 for specified equipment to improve the ability of the volunteers and staff to serve the public. The Newmarket Public Library will get $2,000 to help automate its collection. The Philip Read Memorial Library of Plainfield will receive a grant of $2,000 to help with architect's fees for their planned expansion.

The grants are named in memory of Rebecca Lee Spitz, a native of Manchester and a trustee of the Foundation who died of cancer three years ago at the age of 47. She had earned a Masters degree in Library Science, and had worked for several years as a multilingual librarian for the city of Haifa, Israel. In addition to being a volunteer at the Hollis Social Library, she also served for a number of years as Treasurer of the Hollis School District.

The first grant in this program, in the amount of $2,000, was awarded in December 1995 to the Hollis Social Library "...to enhance library service to the Hollis community..." The next grant, in the amount of $2,500, was awarded in May 1997 to the Fuller Public Library of Hillsboro for a "...library based adult literacy program."

Further grants in this program will be considered at the next semiannual meeting of the Foundation, which will take place in May 1998. For information about the guidelines and the form of application, municipal libraries in New Hampshire should address inquiries to: Ralph Sidore, Treasurer, Saul O Sidore Memorial Foundation, 24 Gage Road, Bedford, N.H. 03110.