Claire Williamson – författare

Learn the dynamics of the grant-seeking process, including proposal writing and grant management, for public, school, and academic librarians.A comprehensive book that covers the full spectrum of the grant process, Librarian's Handbook for Seeking, Writing, and Managing Grants is designed to provide all the information necessary for librarians and educators to become effective members of grant-development and management teams. Written in an easy-to-understand, succinct format, it will be invaluable even for those with little or no background knowledge and regardless of the size or type of library or information center.Recognizing that grants are developed through a sequential process, the volume focuses on the fundamental components of grant planning, grant writing, and grant management. Readers will learn to identify potential federal and state funding sources, organize and manage the proposal development process, do research, and establish and encourage participation on local development teams. They will also learn about specific aspects of grant management, such as budget and finance monitoring; hiring; research compliance and policies; sub-agreements and partnership forms; and reporting requirements.

Claire Williamson has written a vivid collection of poems: Visiting the Minotaur, full of artful reflections, refractions and re-workings of incidents that reveal a fraught childhood and adolescence, a family riddled with dark secrets and tragedy, and her ensuing quest to escape this legacy and create a happier household for her own family. Each poem fashions its own wordscape of love and loss. Sometimes the author borrows from classic mythology. The image of the minotaur, the beast in the labyrinth, recurs and helps the poet come to terms with and exorcise the violence she experienced as a child. Other useful analogies are found in cubist paintings or etchings, such as the Picasso that inspired the title poem.The labyrinth is sometimes the screen of secrets that keep the author from discovering the facts of her identity (‘Red Herrings’), sometimes it is the Streets of Bristol where the young protagonist has run to escape her difficult family (‘Brizzle’), sometimes it is the formal strategies the author uses to convey her various themes, the stepped or broken lines, the fractured stanzas. There are some well-observed poems about the physical aspects of motherhood that add to the literature of that genre. Women will concur with the paradox of ‘Breastfeeding’ where one side is agony and the other, bliss. The poems are not without considerable humour, delicate ironies, tender observations and just plain fun. ‘Cows’ get their splendid moment in the “lemon light”, and we meet ‘Laika’ the first dog in outer space.