Every year, more than $100,000 is given away through ALSC’s professional awards, grants, and scholarships.
Deserving libraries and members across the country receive support to attend conferences, host programs, and get recognized for their achievements.
ALSC announces that two professional award applications have already opened. More information on these awards can be found below:
Louise Seaman Bechtel Fellowship
This fellowship provides a $4,000 stipend to allow a qualified children’s librarian to spend a month or more reading at the University of Florida’s Baldwin Library of Historical Children’s Literature, which contains a special collection of 85,000 volumes of children’s literature published mostly before 1950.
Applications due November 1, 2016.
Apply now!
ALSC Distinguished Service Award
This award honors an individual member who has made significant contributions to and an impact on, library services to children and ALSC. The recipient receives $2,000 and an engraved pin at the ALSC Membership Meeting during the ALA Annual Conference.
Applications due December 1, 2016.
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November 1 is a significant deadline for three ALSC professional awards. Fall is professional award season for ALSC. Every year, more than $100,000 is given away through ALSC’s professional awards, grants, and scholarships. These funds are awarded to deserving individuals and libraries across the country. Submit your application or nomination for one of these great awards soon:
Applications open!
Opening soon!
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It’s ALSC professional award season and our goal this year is to see you apply for one of these great grants and scholarships. To help you understand why, we’ve prepared a list of the top ten reasons why you should apply for award or grant this fall!
1. Programs are expense
ALSC has a bunch of great grants that will help cover the cost of materials, speakers fees, and other assorted costs.
2. Your boss will love it
Nothing says, go-getter like going and getting a grant or award. Especially for early-career professionals! Go get ’em!
3. Your community will love it
Awards and grants are great public relations fodder. When you win, you can share the news with your local newspaper. Brag a little!
4. A gateway to becoming more involved
ALSC professional award winners are in a special community among themselves. Winning an award with ALSC shows that you are ready for bigger things. Think of the places you’ll go, for instance, if you won the Bechtel Fellowship and spent four week studying children’s literature at the University of Florida’s Baldwin Library!
5. Take advantage of membership
Most ALSC professional awards are open to ALSC members, so make sure to use this benefit to your advantage.
6. Host a famous author or illustrator
This is specific to one amazing award…the Maureen Hayes Author/Illustrator Award. You could bring a recognized author/illustrator to your school or library!
7. Showcase your great ideas
Think you have a really innovative and exceptional program? This is a great way to show it off. Apply for a grant like the Light the Way or Baker & Taylor Summer Reading Grant which recognize outstanding ideas.
8. We tailored these specifically to librarians involved in youth services
You’re probably already doing these things in your library, so why not get recognized for it?
9. You can also recognize someone else!
The ALSC Distinguished Service Award recognizes an ALSC member who has made significant contributions to and an impact on, library services to children and ALSC. Know someone like that? Nominate him or her!
10. Money doesn’t grow on trees..nor do books!
Maybe your parents told you this at one point, but it’s true! ALSC grants and awards are a great way to supplement your library budget. If you’re in a small library that wants to build your collection, consider applying for the Bookapalooza program (applications open soon)!
Hurry! Many ALSC professional awards have deadlines of November 1, 2015.
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Fall is professional award season for ALSC. Every year, more than $100,000 is given away through ALSC’s professional awards, grants, and scholarships. These funds are awarded to deserving individuals and libraries across the country. ALSC has several awards to choose from:
Applications open!
Opening soon!
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ALSC and the Grants Administration Committee are now accepting online applications for the 2016 Penguin Young Readers Group Awards. This award, made possible by an annual gift from Penguin Young Readers Group, provides a $600 stipend for up to four children’s librarians to attend their first ALA Annual Conference in Orlando.
Each applicant will be judged on the following:
- Involvement in ALSC, as well as any other professional or educational association of which the applicant was a member, officer, chairman, etc.;
- New programs or innovations started by the applicants at the library in which he/she works;
- Library experience.
Applicants must be personal members of ALSC, as well as ALA members to apply. Deadline for submissions is Thursday, October 1, 2015. For more information about the award requirements and submitting the online application please visit the Penguin Young Readers Group Award Web page.
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ALSC and the Special Collections and Bechtel Fellowship Committee are now accepting online applications for the 2015 Louise Seaman Bechtel Fellowship. The Bechtel Fellowship is designed to allow qualified children’s librarians to spend a total of four weeks or more reading and studying at the Baldwin Library of Historical Children’s Literature, a part of the George A. Smathers Libraries at the University of Florida, Gainesville.
The Baldwin Library contains a special collection of 130,000 volumes of children’s literature published mostly before 1950. The fellowship is endowed in memory of Louise Seaman Bechtel and Ruth M. Baldwin and provides a stipend of $4,000.
Each applicant will be judge on the following:
- the description of the topic of study for the fellowship period;
- the applicants’ demonstration of ongoing commitment to motivating children to read;
- the applicants’ willingness to spend a total of four weeks in Gainesville. The time spent does not have to be successive weeks.
Applicants must be personal members of ALSC, as well as ALA members to apply. Deadline for submissions is Oct. 1, 2014. For more information about the requirements of the fellowship and submitting the online application please visit the Bechtel Fellowship page.
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