Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2007 13:06:37 +0800 From: "Muralidharan, Padma (ELS-DEL)" <P.Muralidharan@elsevier.com> The Board of The Elsevier Foundation has approved two new grant programs that may be of interest to your colleagues and stakeholders the academic and library communities:=20=20=20=20 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.=20=20=20=20=20=20 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.=20=20 For more detailed descriptions and guidelines for both programs, which you should feel free to send any contacts in the academic, society, and library communities who might find this of interest, please visit http://asia.elsevier.com/ELfoundation.htm or http://www.elsevierfoundation.org. Grants for both programs will be awarded competitively, based on an independent review and the guidelines. Submission by Elsevier customers and stakeholders is very much encouraged. Grant proposals are requested by no later than October 1, 2007. Grants will be awarded in December 2007. Please let me know if you have any questions on this or ideas of others who should receive this information. Padma Muralidharan Account Development Manager Elsevier India (Science & Technology) e-mail : p.muralidharan@elsevier.com=20