March 18, 2004

Contact:
Myra Gross, Library Communications,
Alvin Sherman Library at NSU
(954) 915-9399

The Library of America and the NEH announce award of Isaac Bashevis Singer Sentennial Grant to NSU’s Alvin Sherman Library

FORT LAUDERDALE, FL - Hosting a nationwide competition, The Library of America and the National Endowment for the Humanities recently announced that 60 public libraries from 32 states have been selected to receive awards to develop programs about Isaac Bashevis Singer that will be free and open to the public. NSU's Alvin Sherman Library, Research, and Information Technology Center is one of the recipients of this grant.

“We are proud to be a recipient of this award, particularly since Isaac Bashevis Singer spent a significant part of his life in South Florida ,” said Donald Riggs, NSU vice president for information services and university librarian.

The library competition is one part of the 2004 centennial celebration for the master storyteller Isaac Bashevis Singer, who in 1978 became the seventh American to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. The Singer centennial, whose theme is Becoming an American Writer: The Life and Works of Isaac Bashevis Singer, is directed by The Library of America and features public programs, exhibitions, and workshops exploring Singer and the immigrant literary experience. It is supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities and produced with cultural institutions nationwide from February 2004 to January 2005. In July, Singer will join the authoritative Library of America series in a three-volume edition of his collected stories and a fully illustrated companion Album.

The Alvin Sherman Library at Nova Southeastern University is a joint-use facility with the Broward County Board of County Commissioners. It offers access to one of the best research and academic collections in South Florida as well as all the privileges of the Broward County public library system.

For more information, and a calendar of events regarding programs related to Isaac Bashevis Singer, please visit www.singer100.org and www.nova.edu/library.