The purpose of the NMRT Professional Development Grant (previously sponsored by Mango Languages) is to encourage professional development and participation by new ALA members in national ALA and NMRT activities.
The $1,000 award is given annually to a NMRT member to help defray the cost of attending the ALA Annual Conference. The ward is named in honor of Shirley Olofson, a well-respected NMRT President (1971-1972), who died during her term of office.
The Peggy Barber Tribute Grant recognizes, promotes and supports meaningful programs in libraries that have limited and/or no access to budgetary support for programming. This grant aims to help ease budget challenges by annually awarding up to three libraries
This award, made possible by an annual gift from Penguin Young Readers Group, provides a $1200 stipend to up to two children's librarians to attend their first ALA Annual Conference.
The NewBank/Readex Catharine J. Reynolds Award provides funding for research in the field of documents librarianship, or in a related area that would benefit the individual's performance as a documents librarian or make a contribution to the field. This award
The travel grants will be awarded annually to five black/African American youth/teen services public or school librarians for the purpose of attending the ALA Annual conference. The grants provide up to $3000 (and not less than $1500) to cover actual expenses
To fund travel expenses associated with attending ALA’s annual conference. The recipient is library practitioner in the profession for less than two years, or an individual who is newly employed in interlibrary loan, resource sharing or electronic reserves
