Thanks so much to Liz Burns at A Chair, A Fireplace, and a Tea Cozy for reminding me of this:
From Tracy Bloom Lerner, Library Marketing Manager with Random House Children’s Books, used with permission:
Help a new librarian or library student attend their first ALA Annual Conference by entering him or her to win The 2nd Annual Kate McClelland and Kathy Krasniewicz Memorial Scholarship.
In January 2009, our community lost two very dear friends, Kate McClelland and Kathy Krasniewicz.
We are proud to honor their memory and pay tribute to their distinguished careers. Both had a special gift for mentoring young librarians and this scholarship celebrates that.
ALA MEMBERS: In 500 words or less, tell us about a new librarian or library student who has never attended an ALA Annual Conference, and in whom you see great devotion to the library community and promise in the field. Tell us how he/she would benefit from attending the ALA Annual Conference. The new librarian/library student could win a trip to attend the 2011 ALA Annual Conference in New Orleans, LA!
Please click here for an entry form.
Prize includes, but is not limited to, travel to/from New Orleans, LA hotel, conference registration, and ticket to the Newbery Caldecott banquet.
Send entries to: Kate McClelland and Kathy Krasniewicz Memorial Scholarship, Random House Children’s Books, 1745 Broadway, MD 10-4, New York, NY 10019
Entries must be postmarked by February 28, 2011.
For more information, visit http://www.randomhouse.com/teachers/librarians/KateandKathyScholarship.html
Random House established a Memorial Scholarship in honor of Kate McClelland & Kathy Krasniewicz, for a librarian or library student attending ALA. The first recipient has been selected!
From the Random House Press Release:
Congratulations!
Yelena Alekseyeva-Popova is the first recipient of the Kate McClelland and Kathy Krasniewicz Memorial Scholarship to attend the ALA Annual Conference in Washington, DC this summer!
Nominated by Miriam Budin of the Chappaqua Library, Chappaqua, New York.
Of Yelena, Miriam writes, “I was impressed by Yelena’s enthusiasm, her interest in current children’s literature, and her resourcefulness in availing herself of this discussion by local librarians. I could see she was a remarkable up-and-coming-librarian…Yelena has juggled her courses, student teaching, and work at our library magnificently…she is vibrant, brilliant, outgoing, responsible, and increasingly well-grounded in children’s literature. She reads incessantly, voraciously, and widely…I have no doubt that Kate and Kathy would have recognized Yelena’s genius and sparkle. I can almost hear Kate telling her, ‘You’re a star!’”
For those readers outside the library world, Kate McClelland and Kathy Krasniewicz were children's librarians from Connecticut who were actively involved in ALA and the children's literature community. McClelland was vice-president/president elect of ALSC. They attended the ALA Midwinter 2009 in Denver; took a taxi back to the airport; and that taxi was hit by a drunk driver. Both women died from their injuries.(School Library Journal).
The drunk driver was recently sentenced to 36 years. See: Centennial woman gets maximum 36 years for drunken crash that killed two librarians from the Denver Post. See also the Greenwich CT coverage, Jail sentence a sigh of relief for Greenwich community.
Amazon Affiliate. If you click from here to Amazon and buy something, I receive a percentage of the purchase price.
© Elizabeth Burns of A Chair, A Fireplace & A Tea Cozy
.jpg?picon=107)
