In co-sponsorship with the American Library Association (ALA), EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) has awarded seven librarians $1,000 scholarships to attend the ALA Annual Meeting in Las Vegas, June 26– July 1, 2014. The EBSCO ALA Annual Conference Sponsorship is an annual award consisting of $1,000 for actual reimbursed expenses designed to allow librarians to attend the conference.
As part of the application process, librarians were asked to write an essay on the topic of how attending the conference will contribute to the librarians' professional development. Casey Hoeve from Kansas State University wrote that attending the conference for the first time would allow him to attend sessions that are not always available at other conferences and meet with fellow members of the ALA-NMRT Endnotes Committee and the ACRL Cyber Zed Shed Committee in person.
EBSCO is dedicated to supporting the professional development of librarians around the world and has a long tradition of co-sponsoring scholarships to ALA conferences, providing funds for conference registration, travel, and expenses. The scholarship recipients will be honoured by EBSCO and ALA representatives during the conference at a breakfast on June 29.
Applications were judged by an ALA-designated jury: jury chairman Julius C. Jefferson Jr., information research specialist, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.; Anders C. Dahlgren, president, Library Planning Associates, Normal Ill.; Elizabeth Nelson, adjunct reference librarian, McHenry County College, Crystal Lake, Ill.; Dorothy M. Persson, edu/psychology librarian/embedded Ln,, University of Iowa,Iowa City I.A.; and Annie Zeidman-Karpinski, science and technology services librarian, Eugene, Ore.
