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CureSearch for Children's Cancer is an American 501(c)(3) non-profit foundation that funds next-generation research that will lead to safe, effective commercially viable treatments for children with cancer.
The Association has nearly 60 active committees and task forces, including programs for youth, publishing resources and journals, evaluating and awarding media for children. [1] ALSC sets standards for library services to children through regular updates to its "Competencies for Librarians Serving Children in Public Libraries."
In 2013, the Zach Sobiech Osteosarcoma Fund was established to designate funding specifically for osteosarcoma research. It's administered by the Children's Cancer Research Fund and donations fund research at the University of Minnesota. The fund honors Zach Sobiech, a musician who died of osteosarcoma in May 2013 at age 18.
This page outlines different strategies for finding and engaging your library to help with your own research, whether for your personal research or to help contribute to Wikipedia. After all, Wikipedia is a summary of information from reliable research materials. To learn more about using Wikipedia in Research see our Research Help page.
It is the official journal of the Association of Library Service to Children, and a journal of American Library Association. [ 1 ] The journal was established in 2003 and succeeds the Journal of Youth Services (formerly Top of the News ), which was published until 2002 in collaboration with the Young Adult Library Services Association .
Engaging with libraries, publishers or research support communities (like Open Access advocates, for example) strengthens the overall impact of Wikipedia outreach in your local context. Annually, the Wikipedia Library hosts the # 1Lib1Ref campaign in January to encourage libraries to engage with Wikipedia, and become more comfortable with ...
Censorship of educational research databases in the United States has been a concerted political effort since 2016. [1] [2] Activist groups that aim to change school curricula and ban books from libraries and schools are applying political and legislative pressure to limit the content in educational research databases to which libraries subscribe to give students online access to educational ...
State aid is typically divided among all libraries in a state in the form of block grants. Each eligible library receives a percentage of state aid based on the library's budget, income and population served. State aid supplements local library budgets, and is particularly important for rural libraries and libraries supported by a small tax ...