Quad Cities campus library receives grant
David Marshall
Issue date: 7/9/08 Section: News
The Western Illinois University-Quad Cities Library recently received a generous $5,000 grant from The Community Foundation of the Great River Bend to be used for the Jeff Leibovitz Special Collection of Holocaust Education Materials.
The Jeff Leibovitz collection is named for a Western student who died of a heart attack in 1994 at the age of 38.
According to WIU-QC Library Instructor Tom Finley, the Leibovitz Collection is a significant set of books and other resources primarily aimed towards grade school curricula relating to the Holocaust.
Because the State of Illinois requires all students in public elementary and high schools be taught about the Holocaust, the Leibovitz Collection offers an easy solution to resource access.
"This grant will allow us to significantly expand and improve the Leibovitz Collection," Finley said. "We appreciate the generosity of the Community Foundation of the Great River Bend."
The concept of the Leibovitz Collection is to utilize traveling trunks that include books, posters, maps, audio-visual materials and other educational aids.
Area teachers can check out these trunks and use the teaching aids enclosed to educate students about the Holocaust. The $5,000 grant will fund the purchase of two educational trunks.
Schools from Rock Island, Henry, and Mercer Counties in Illinois and Scott, Mucatine and Clinton Counties in Iowa currently use these Holocaust Education materials. The Western Illinois University Quad Cities Library organizes the use of the collection.
The main goal of the Jeff Leibovitz Special Collection of Holocaust Education Materials Fund is to provide print and audio-visual materials suitable for kindergarten through 8th-grade classrooms.
The Leibovitz Collection provides materials to assist schools in developing K-8 curriculum in the area of Holocaust studies. It also assists in sponsoring professional development workshops and seminars in Holocaust studies.
In addition, the program will directly help carry out the Illinois Legislative mandate that a unit of instruction about the Holocaust be included in every public school curriculum.
Finally, the collection intends to help establish a repository for the oral and written records of Holocaust survivors and liberators.
Western's library staff is delighted with the ongoing support they have received from The Community Foundation of the Great River Bend.
For further information about the Jeff Leibovitz Special Collection of Holocaust Education Materials, contact Tom Finley at 309/762-1598 or TE-Finley@wiu.edu.
The Jeff Leibovitz collection is named for a Western student who died of a heart attack in 1994 at the age of 38.
According to WIU-QC Library Instructor Tom Finley, the Leibovitz Collection is a significant set of books and other resources primarily aimed towards grade school curricula relating to the Holocaust.
Because the State of Illinois requires all students in public elementary and high schools be taught about the Holocaust, the Leibovitz Collection offers an easy solution to resource access.
"This grant will allow us to significantly expand and improve the Leibovitz Collection," Finley said. "We appreciate the generosity of the Community Foundation of the Great River Bend."
The concept of the Leibovitz Collection is to utilize traveling trunks that include books, posters, maps, audio-visual materials and other educational aids.
Area teachers can check out these trunks and use the teaching aids enclosed to educate students about the Holocaust. The $5,000 grant will fund the purchase of two educational trunks.
Schools from Rock Island, Henry, and Mercer Counties in Illinois and Scott, Mucatine and Clinton Counties in Iowa currently use these Holocaust Education materials. The Western Illinois University Quad Cities Library organizes the use of the collection.
The main goal of the Jeff Leibovitz Special Collection of Holocaust Education Materials Fund is to provide print and audio-visual materials suitable for kindergarten through 8th-grade classrooms.
The Leibovitz Collection provides materials to assist schools in developing K-8 curriculum in the area of Holocaust studies. It also assists in sponsoring professional development workshops and seminars in Holocaust studies.
In addition, the program will directly help carry out the Illinois Legislative mandate that a unit of instruction about the Holocaust be included in every public school curriculum.
Finally, the collection intends to help establish a repository for the oral and written records of Holocaust survivors and liberators.
Western's library staff is delighted with the ongoing support they have received from The Community Foundation of the Great River Bend.
For further information about the Jeff Leibovitz Special Collection of Holocaust Education Materials, contact Tom Finley at 309/762-1598 or TE-Finley@wiu.edu.
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