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Grants & Fellowships

ALA General

Carnegie-Whitney Grant
The Carnegie-Whitney Grant awards up to $5,000 for the preparation and publication of library resource guides. The grant is administered by ALA Publishing Services. Application deadline is November 3, 2008.

Wilson Grant
An annual award consisting of $3,500 and a 24k gold-framed citation given to a library organization whose application demonstrates greatest merit for a program of staff development designed to further the goals and objectives of the library organization. Donated by the H.W. Wilson Company. Deadline is December 1.

WNBA Eastman Grant
The WNBA Eastman Grant awards up to $750 to a librarian interested in learning about the relationship between the library and publishing professions. The grant is funded by the Women's National Book Association and administered by ALA Publishing Services. Application deadline is November 1.

World Book Award
Two annual awards consisting of $5,000 and a gold-framed citation of achievement to a public and school library. The World Book/ALA Information Literacy Goal Award seeks to promote exemplary information literacy programs in public and school libraries. The annual awards are designed to encourage and support innovative and effective information literacy programs in today’s school and public libraries. Deadline is December 1.


Divisions

ABC-CLIO Leadership Grant
The grant, up to $1,750 donated by ABC-CLIO, is given to school library media associations that are AASL affiliates for planning and implementing leadership programs at the state, regional, or local levels.

ACRL announces Award deadline correction

ACRL Awards Program
The Association of College and Research Libraries Association Awards Program honors the best and brightest stars of academic librarianship.These awards recognize and honor the professional contributions and achievements of your ACRL peers.

ALTA/GALE Outstanding Trustee Conference Grant application form
The ALTA/Gale Outstanding Trustee Conference Grant enables public library trustees to attend the ALA Annual Conference. A grant of $750 each is warded annually to two public library trustees who have demonstrated qualitative interests and efforts in supportive service of the local public library.

Baker & Taylor/YALSA Conference Grants
This grant is funded by the Baker and Taylor Company. The two grants of $1,000 each are awarded to librarians who work directly with young adults in either a public or school library to enable them to attend the Annual Conference for the first time.

Baker and Taylor Audio Music/Video Product Award
Baker and Taylor Audio Music/Video Product Award

Bechtel Fellowship
Provides a $4,000 stipend for research at the Baldwin Library, a special collection of children's literature. Administered by the Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC). Deadline for applications: December 1.

Book Wholesalers Reading Program Grant
Provides $3,000 to fund an outstanding theme-based summer reading program for children in a public library. Administered by the Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC) and sponsored by Book Wholesalers, Inc. Deadline for applications: December 1.

BWI/YALSA Collection Development Grant
To award $1000 for collection development to YALSA members who represent a public library and who work directly with young adults ages 12 to 18. Up to two grants will be awarded annually.

Candlewick Light the Way

Demco Creative Merchandising Grant
PLA's Demco Creative Merchandising Grant provides cash and supplies to a public library proposing a project for the creative display and merchandising of materials either in the library or in the community. The grant consists of $1,000 cash and $2,000 worth of display furniture or supplies ordered through Demco, Inc., in conjunction with the grant project. The recipient will be honored at the ALA Annual Conference. The grant was established in 1996 and is sponsored by Demco, Inc. The grant honors a public library for the creative display and merchandising of materials either in the library or in the community.

DEMCO New Leaders Travel Grant
The purpose of these grants is to enhance the professional development and improve the expertise of public librarians new to the field by making possible their attendance at major professional development activities. This grant has been established to enable PLA Members new to the profession and who have not had the opportunity to attend a major PLA Continuing Education Event in the last five years to do so. Eligible events are the PLA Spring Symposium workshops; PLA National Conferences; and other PLA Events, such as Preconferences, held in conjunction with ALA Annual Conferences.

Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship
This award fosters research in academic librarianship by encouraging and assisting doctoral students in the field with their dissertation research.

FINRA Investor Education Foundation and the American Library Association announce $853,000 in Grants to Libraries Nationwide

Frances Henne/YALSA/VOYA Research Grant
This grant of $500 is to provide seed money for small scale projects which will encourage research that responds to the YALSA Research Agenda.

Great Book Giveaway Competition
Each year the YALSA office receives approximately 1200 newly published children's, young adult and adult books, videos, CD's and audio cassettes for review. YALSA and the cooperating publishers are offering one year's worth of review materials as a contribution to a library in need.

Nijhoff Study Grant
This grant supports research pertaining to Western European studies, librarianship, or the book trade.

Past Winners
A list of past winners of the ALSC Louise Seaman Bechtel Fellowship.

Penguin Young Readers Group Award
Four children's librarians will receive grants of $600 toward first-time ALA Annual Conference attendance. Administered by the Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC) and sponsored by Penguin Putnam Books for Young Readers. Deadline for applications: December 1.

Research Grant
The grant, up to $5,000, is awarded to conduct innovative research aimed at measuring and evaluating the impact of school library media programs on learning and education.

Samuel Lazerow Fellowship
This award fosters advances in collections or technical services by providing fellowships to librarians for travel or writing in those fields. Research projects in the compilation of bibliographies will not be supported by this fellowship.

Scholarships & Awards
LITA scholarships are awarded to eligible students who are continuing their education in an MLS program. The awards recognizes outstanding achievements by individual or a group of individuals

Tandem Literature Award
Provides a $1,000 grant for ALA Annual Conference attendance to an ALSC member who has developed an outstanding literature program for children. Sponsored by Sagebrush Corporation, and administered by the Association for Library Service to Children. Deadline for applications: December 1.


Offices

2007 Scholastic Library Publishing National Library Week Grant
The 2007 Scholastic Library Publishing National Library Week Grant will award $5000 to a single library of any type for the best public awareness campaign during National Library Week 2007. All proposals must use the "Come together @ your library®" theme.

AWARDS, GRANTS and Exchanges

Diversity Research Grants
The Diversity Research Grant consists of a one-time $2000 annual award for original research and a $500 travel grant to attend and present at ALA Annual Conference. Three grants are awarded each year, the deadline to submit is April 30th.

Fyan (Loleta D.) Grant
Loleta D. Fyan Grant of $10,000 is given annually to the applicant whose proposal results in the development and improvement of public libraries and the services they provide is designed to effect changes in public library services that are innovative and responsive to the future.





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