Sage Support Staff Travel Grants awarded

Contact: Charles Wilt

Executive Director, ALCTS

312-280-5030

cwilt@ala.org

For Immediate Release

March 5, 2007

Sage Support Staff Travel Grants awarded

CHICAGO—Six library support staff have been awarded a 2007 ALCTS/SAGE Library Support Staff Travel Grant. These grants provide airfare, three nights’ hotel and conference registration for the individuals to attend the 2007 American Library Association (ALA) Annual Conference to be held in Washington, D.C. Those receiving the travel grant this year are:

Monica Claassen-Wilson, program assistant for Collection Development, Kansas University, Lawrence, Kansas

Julia Merkel, preservation specialist, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, Virginia

Audrey Pryce, children’s literature cataloger, Bank Street College of Education, New York, New York

Nancy Slate, assistant librarian, Mamie Doud Eisenhower Public Library, Bloomfield, Colorado

LaShawn Wilson, PART moderator, Cataloging Department, Auburn University, Alabama

Siu Min Yu, library associate II, Government Publications, Rice University, Houston, Texas

The awards will be presented on Sunday, June 24, 2007, at the ALCTS Awards Ceremony during the 2007 American Library Association (ALA) meeting in Washington, DC.

Now in its third year, travel grants were offered to support staff working in an area of technical services and collection, with at least three years of experience, who have never before attended an ALA annual conference. The 2007 award recipients demonstrated outstanding commitment to the profession, active participation in local and paraprofessional associations as well as the professional life of their respective institutions, and evidence of a clear desire to serve their library communities. Above all, each of these candidates demonstrated a genuine love of and deep commitment to libraries.

The Association for Library Collections & Technical Services (ALCTS) is the national association for information providers who work in collections and technical services. Areas of concentration of ALCTS members include acquisition, cataloging, collection development, preservation, and archiving of all library materials in all formats as well as serial collection management.

ALCTS is a division of the American Library Association.