Elsevier Foundation news

["Menefee, Daviess (ELS-NYC)" <D.Menefee@elsevier.com>]

The following announcement is being released today.  Apologies 
for duplicate postings.

Daviess Menefee
Elsevier

The Board of The Elsevier Foundation has approved two new grant programs
that may be of interest to the academic and library communities:

The Innovative Libraries in Developing Countries program will 
make grants to improve the capacity of developing world libraries 
through training, infrastructure, technology, digitization and 
preservation of STM information. The Foundation will focus in 
particular on supporting partnerships in these areas between 
libraries in the developing countries and institutions in the 
developed countries.

The New Scholars program is designed to encourage the 
participation of women in academic science and technology through 
programs that address the challenges associated with managing 
career and family responsibilities.  We are focusing in 
particular on supporting the efforts of academic institutions and 
scholarly societies to help scientists with family 
responsibilities attend conferences and meetings that are 
important to establishing a career in science.

More information may be found at: 
<http://www.elsevierfoundation.org/>