EmailGrants from the Office of Secretary of State and the Illinois State Library with a total amount of $312,252 as of April 2013
Name |
Date |
Period |
Major Tasks |
| FY2013 Illinois State Library "Back to Books: Firefighting Training on DVD" | May 2013 | May 1-September 30, 2013 |
Purchase DVD library materials focusing on firefighting skills training Promote the collection at the IFSI Library OPAC and website Promote the collection specifically to over one thousand firefighter students in the IFSI Firefighting Program and firefighter students in the IFSI Certified Firefighter II Academy (Basic Firefighter/NFPA Firefighter I Academy) in the fall and spring semesters Promote the collection at the IFSI's annual Fire College and display the materials to showcase them to more than 697 firefighter participants |
FY 2008 LSTA (Library Service & Technology Act), Grant, "Illinois Online Disaster Preparedness Pathfinder". $4,000 |
Oct. 2007 |
Oct. 2007 - June. 2008 |
Organize relevant multi-media resources that contribute to Illinois citizens’ disaster preparedness, targeting multi-type and multi-age audiences at home, school and community. Increase general public awareness of disaster preparedness, thereby electronic pathfinder supplying access to invaluable informational resources concerning disaster hazards. Provide vital and comprehensive source on individual, family, and community preparedness to help the citizens of Illinois meet challenges ahead in a disaster. Maintain and develop partnerships with fire departments, fire organizations, and public and school libraries throughout Illinois. |
FY 2007 LSTA (Library Service & Technology Act) Grant, "Illinois Firefighter Line of Duty Death Database" $20,500 |
Oct. 2006 |
Oct. 2006 - June. 2007 |
Illinois Firefighter Line of Duty Death Database Collect, organize, digitize, preserve, and provide access to historical and cultural materials that document the ultimate sacrifice of more than 700 Illinois firefighters over the past 150 years. Partner with fire organizations, historical societies, fire museums, and libraries to digitize photographs, newspapers, fire station logbooks, and other resources that detail these tragedies for inclusion in an online database. Providing access to this history will memorialize the firefighters, increase awareness of their sacrifice, and supply contemporary firefighters with valuable "lessons learned" from the various deaths. Enhance the educational endeavors of firefighters and could help prevent future tragedies. Furthermore, the project will strengthen partnerships the IFSI Library has already established with fire departments, fire organizations, and public libraries throughout Illinois. Help build relationships with historical societies and fire museums. |
FY 2006 LSTA (Library Service & Technology Act) Grant, "Creative Use of Libraries(CUOL Grant) - Deliver Right Information to Illinois Firefighters at Right Time" . $81,626 |
Oct. 2005 |
Oct. 2005 - June. 2006 |
Employ innovative technology to create a new library service - “The Digital Illinois Fire Departments Training Network Database” (Network Database) to address firefighters’ local training needs. Train 25 or more selected fire departments to maintain a digitalized record of their training calendars and activities and will provide access to this digital information. Help respond to firefighters' information needs in a timely manner by providing pertinent information resources via the grant partners, their local public libraries. Help improve the training of firefighters’ by providing “at the right time” access and usage of fire emergency information resources Strengthen partnerships the IFSI Library already has established between fire departments and local public libraries. |
FY 2002 LSTA (Library Service & Technology Act) Grant, "Grow with Pro!". $4,900 |
Oct. 2001 |
Oct. 2001 - May. 2002 |
Hiring a local architect to do conceptual drawings for the new IFSI Library Building |
FY 2001 LSTA Libraries in the 21st Century – Developing the Distance Learning Library Services for Illinois Firefighters: an Integrated Information Service with Online Firefighter II Certification Program. $49,570 |
Dec. 5, 2000 |
Dec. 2000-June 2001 |
Online Firefighter II site Collaboration and partnership with 14 libraries Online training videotape Full text and nonprint reference materials delivery through Internet First in the nation in its kind International attention from Britain and Australia FireTalk, IFSI Thesaurus. Build some basic structure of IFSI Thesurus. |
FY 2001 LSTA Collection Connection Grant. $2,500 |
Dec. 5, 2000 |
Dec. - June 2001 |
33+ reference books in Health (Emergency Medical Services) and Fire Science (science) areas. |
FY 2000 LSTA Full Year Grant - Internet Outreach to and Training of Illinois Fire Service Personnel, Public and Community College Librarians for Electronic Access to Fire Safety Information.$75,000 |
Jan. 14, 2000 |
Jan. -Sept. 2000 |
Comprehensive Library Web Home Page 79 workshops; 10 demos in 64 cities covering 201 sites 148 fire departments, 36 libraries and 21 organizations in the workshops and/or demos ILL requests through 149 public libraries 1,669 reference requests , 5 times more than 300 requests in FY 99 Research, OPAC training manual, equipment used beyond the project year "FireTalk, IFSI Thesaurus" started. |
FY 2000 LSTA Equipment to Books Grant. $2,000 |
May 1, 2000 |
May-June 2000 |
4 expensive reference materials, including online National Fire Codes, 2 tapes on fire safety and Essentials of Fire Fighting Curriculum with Transparencies |
FY 2000 LSTA Marketing Grant.$1,000 |
March 17, 2000 |
March-June 2000 |
FSI Library brochure to 666 public libraries and 1,327 fire departments |
FY 2000 Educate & Automate, Fast Start-Basic Equipment.$1,065 |
Feb. 10, 2000 |
Feb. – June 2000 |
Plain paper fax machine, color ink jet printer, zip driver, scanner |
FY 2000 Educate & Automate, Public Internet Access.$1,820 |
Feb. 9, 2000 |
Feb-June 2000 |
Ramjet Workline 500 NIC System, Laserjet printer |
FY 1999 LSTA Bring in an Expert Grant.$4,500 |
June 1, 1999 |
June-Sept. 1999 |
Subject access evaluation Research projects and an idea of "FireTalk, IFSI Thesaurus" was born. |
Awards from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
| Name | Date | Period | Major Tasks |
2007 Freeman Fellow Partner Initiatives Award, Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies, $13,000 |
8/2007 | 8/2008 | To develop a graduate course at GSLIS on China |
| 2004 Campus Research Board UIUC, $8,131 | 9/2003 | 1/2003 - 9/2004 | A Survey to Support "Evidence-Based Practice" in Special Libraries Serving Fire Service Personnel and Researchers in Public Safety and Homeland Security Areas |
| 2003 Campus Research Board UIUC, $9,2521 | 2/2002 | 1/2003 - 8/2003 | FireTalk, IFSI Thesaurus |
Grant From Special Libraries Association
| Name | Date | Period | Major Tasks |
| 2004 Special Libraries Association, $20,000 Co-Research Director, Professor Linda C. Smith |
6/2003 | 8/2003 - 12/2004 | A Survey to Support "Evidence-Based Practice" in Special Libraries Serving Fire Service Personnel and Researchers in Public Safety and Homeland Security Areas |
Grant From the National Library of Medicine/Greater Midwest Region
| Name | Date | Period | Major Tasks |
| FY 2004 GMR Outreach Project Award. $6,000 | 05/2004 | 05/2004-04/2005 | Outreach program for emergency medical techicians in 5 selected fire departments. |
| FY 2002 GMR Professional Development Award. $1,700 | 10/2002 | 11/2002-2003 | To develop an action plan for a new outreach library service for Paramedics in Illinois Fire Departments. |
Grant from the Chinese American Librarians Association (CALA)
| Name | Date | Period | Major Tasks |
| Chinese American Librarians in the 21st Century $700. This project is also partially funded by the Illinois Fire Service Institute Co-Research Director, Anna Xiong |
6/2005 | 6/2005 - 6/2006 | Survey Chinese American librarians, who are members of Chinese American Librarians Association. |
| Course Search |
| Today's Line of Duty Deaths |
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Andrew McEvoy 1883 Kurt Meusel 2010 David Walsh 1938 |
