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With a $100,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), the Harvard University Library (HUL) will partner with the Simmons Graduate School of Library and Information Science in an attempt to reverse the effects of a decade of war and economic sanctions, as well as looting that accompanied the recent regime change...
Michele Cloonan, dean of the Simmons’ library sciences school and the principal investigator for the NEH grant, said in the press release that “the recent war has resulted in widespread destruction. Librarians were cut off from technological and professional development...so much has changed in library and information science since the Iran/Iraq war two decades...
...NEH is an independent, federal grant-giving agency that supports research, education and public programs in the humanities...
Gates was selected by the National Council on the Humanities, the 26-member advisory board of the NEH in March, 2001, based on his “significant scholarly contributions to the humanities and [his] ability to communicate the knowledge and wisdom of the humanities in a broadly appealing...
...Through his outstanding scholarship in African American history and literature, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. has helped shape the field of African American studies,” NEH Chairman Bruce Cole said in a press release announcing the lecture...