Foundation Center Seminar

By Robert Walling
A seminar explaining the Foundation Center database will be presented at the West Virginia University at Parkersburg Library on Thursday, Nov. 10 at 7 p.m. On Sept. 21 and Sept. 24, Ellen Pope explained how to use this comprehensive service. The Foundation Center database provides students and the public alike with information on a variety of financial grants and scholarships. The grants found on the service cover a wide range of fields ranging from the sciences, arts and humanities. The service is available at the WVUP library, and nowhere else in the Mid-Ohio Valley.

The instructor for this Thursday’s seminar will be the WVUP Library’s director, Stephen Hupp, or Ellen Pope.

In addition to the Foundation Center, the tutorial will also inform patrons on the other database services offered by the WVUP library. Many of these services - such as The Oxford Reference Library and American Council of Learned Societies History E Book Project - provide access to tens of thousands of online books. The Naxos Music Library links anyone to a library of over 80,000 audio files ranging from a variety of different styles of music.

Although all these services, except the Foundation Center, are meant to be available from off campus, some students have reported problems with accessing the database on their own computers. Questions or problems concerning this can be answered at this seminar or by asking a library staff member at anytime.