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AWARD OF REBECCA LEE SPITZ LIBRARY GRANTS ANNOUNCED
The Saul O Sidore Memorial Foundation, a private non-profit charitable trust located in Bedford, N.H., announces the award of one grant to a New Hampshire municipal library and six grants to libraries selected by the N.H. State Library for participation in the Kids, Books and the Arts summer reading program. The semi-annual 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. Priority is given toward programs that promote and enhance reading. In general, grants are not made to support "drives" or other general fundraising efforts.
The new grant was awarded to the Wilmot Public Library. The grant, in the amount of $1,883.80, will provide for the construction and installation of additional library shelving. In addition, the Foundation has awarded six grants, totaling $1,500, to town libraries selected by the N.H. State Library to participate in the Kids, Books and the Arts summer reading program.
The grants are named in memory of Rebecca Lee Spitz, a native of Manchester and a trustee of the Foundation who died of cancer at the age of 47. She had earned a Masters degree in Library Science, and had worked for several years as a multi-lingual 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 was awarded in December, 1995 to the Hollis Social Library. Additional grants since then have gone to 26 different municipal libraries, for a cumulative total of over $47,000.
Further grants in this program will be considered at the next semiannual meeting of the Foundation, which will take place in November, 2000. For information about the guidelines and the form of application, municipal libraries in New Hampshire should make written inquiries to: Ralph Sidore, Treasurer, Saul O Sidore Memorial Foundation, 24 Gage Road, Bedford, N.H. 03110. |
