Finding an Idea

Introduction

SJSU-AILA Grant
The American Indian Library Association is partnering with San Jose School of Library and Information Science to apply for an IMLS grant to provide scholarships for American Indians and Alaska Native students to earn an MLIS. The school is conducting a survey to help with a needs assessment for the grant proposal.

Amazon Examples
When Amazon changed its Product Advertising API to require signing of requests, it rendered my Rated New Fiction and Similar Products pipes unusable. The benefit of doing the work in pipes is that you don't have to have a server from which to run the script. However, as I mentioned in my post about Signing Amazon Requests, it seems like signing Amazon

Language Preservation
Indigenous languages have long been endangered by a combination of urbanization and modernization, as well as past governmental policies of removal, relocation, and termination of indigenous populations. However, recent years have seen a renewed interest in reclaiming and preserving indigenous knowledge, including native languages. The use of technology can help with language preservation and revitalization, but such programs must also be sensitive to issues of ownership of and access to cultural knowledge.