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Stephen Denney <sdenney@ocf.berkeley.edu>
date Nov 22, 2006 8:44 AM
subject [Vsg] librarian fellowships for Vietnamese?
In another forum, a librarian teaching Chinese high school students asked
if there is any kind of program whereby Chinese students can come to the
United States to study library science. That leads me to wonder, is there
any such program for Vietnamese or foreign students in general, studying
library science either at the undergraduate or graduate level? I know a
number of Vietnamese students are in various universities in the U.S., but
don't what programs they are sponsored by, other than the Fuilbright
scholarships.
- Steve Denney
Hue-Tam Ho Tai <hhtai@fas.harvard.edu>
date Nov 22, 2006 8:50 AM
subject Re: [Vsg] librarian fellowships for Vietnamese?
In the 1990s, the Harvard-Yenching Institute launched a program to train
librarians that ran for several years. The funds came from HYI, the
training was done at Simmons College Graduate School in Library
Science. Recently, Simmons received a 3 year grant to train another
batch of Vietnamese librarians. I believe this is the third year of the
program. Many of the earlier groups are now in position of leadership
at their institutions in HCMC, Hanoi, Can Tho and elsewhere.
Judith Henchy <judithh@u.washington.edu>
date Nov 22, 2006 9:33 AM
subject Re: [Vsg] librarian fellowships for Vietnamese?
Steve,
Library training in the U.S. is pretty ad hoc at this point. Pat Oyler at
Simmons College has had a long-standing program to train Vietnamese
librarians, first funded by Harvard Yenching and the Henry Luce Foundation,
and now by Atlantic Philanthropies. The Christian Board of Higher Education
is supporting a few librarians from Vietnam and Cambodia to my knowledge,
but these are dependent upon individual initiative and arrangements with the
library schools. There is no dedicated fund or program to support this
work, although the Mortenson Center at the University of Illinois offers
some shorter-term training and professional development options
(http://www.library.uiuc.edu/mortenson/programs.htm). Although the
Mortenson Center provides no funding, their site has a link of possible
funders provided by the American Library Association.
Best
DiGregorio, Michael <M.DiGregorio@fordfound.org>
date Nov 22, 2006 5:45 PM
subject RE: [Vsg] librarian fellowships for Vietnamese?
Steve,
On the other side of the equation, The Ford Foundation is supporting
journal acquisitions through the Journal Donation Project at New School
University. JDP provides around 900 subscriptions to, I think, 24
institutions. Sorry, I can't be precise because the numbers change.
JDP is also doing training in Vietnam on selected topics. The next, in
January, will focus on using journals for research and teaching. JDP
also is creating an online database of the titles of articles within the
journals it is now providing to these institutions. The titles are
translated into Vietnamese and will be browsable in hard copy at the
institutions.
Mike
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