LCLC Resources
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Local Grantors & Funding Resources
- The Cedar Rapids Public Library serves as a Cooperating Collection for the Foundation Center in New York and has many great resources, including an excellent online database of funders
- Iowa Arts Council
- Humanities Iowa
- Iowa Conservation & Preservation Consortium
- Greater Cedar Rapids Community Foundation
- Linn County Historic Preservation Commission
- Witwer Trust Grant Program administered by the Linn County Board of Supervisors
- Historical Resource Development Program of the State Historical Society of Iowa
- The Consortium's Library Disaster Recovery Booklet
- Linn County Board of Supervisors
- Governor Culver's Office
- The Iowa Legislature
- Iowa's Library Services Areas
- Library Service Area Boards
- Iowa Center for the Book
- Iowa State Data Center
- State Library of Iowa
- Iowa Library Association
- Silo Locator - Iowa's Online Catalog
- HealthInfoIowa
- Vocational Biographies (username Cedar Rapids Pub Lib, password 5r5r)
- MedLinePlus: Trusted Health Information
- Code of Iowa et al.
- GPO Access, federal government documents online
- Library of Congress
- Vocational Biography & Learning Express resources from the Cedar Rapids Public Library
- Social Computing: IMs & Blogs (handout from 4/17/07 presentation)
- Social Computing: Wikis (handout from 4/17/07 presentation)
- Social Computing: MySpace & RSS (handout from 4/24/07 presentation)
- Podcasting (handout from 4/24/07 presentation)