EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) has announced the winner of its 2012 Charleston Conference Scholarship - Zeeshan Ullah, assistant librarian at Central Library, Islamia College Peshawar, Pakistan. This year's event - the 32nd Annual Charleston Conference, titled 'Accentuate the Positive' - will be held November 7 – 10, 2012, in Charleston, S.C.
Applicants for the scholarship were asked to consider the topic 'Looking for the Silver Lining: Positive Outcomes from Troubled Times' and submit a short essay detailing how a potentially negative situation could yield or has yielded a positive outcome as a result of implementing resourceful strategies in the library.
This is EBSCO's fourth year sponsoring a Charleston Conference scholarship; funds must be used by the winning librarian for conference registration and related expenses. Judges for this year's scholarship were Katina Strauch, head of collection development, College of Charleston; Rick Anderson, associate director for scholarly resources and collections, J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah; and Kittie Henderson, director of academic and law divisions, EBSCO Information Services.
