Louise Seaman Bechtel Fellowship
Association for Library Service to Children
Award: $4000 – $4000
Deadline: October 15.
To provide librarians the opportunity to read and study at the Baldwin Library of the George Smathers Libraries, University of Florida. Qualifications: Applicants must be a current personal member of the American Library Association (ALA) and the Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC); organizational, corporate, and student members are not eligible; provide written documentation of approval by the applicant's supervisor that they will be able to schedule time from work to travel to the Baldwin Library in order to conduct research; have a minimum of five years of library experience that involves working directly with children up to age 14; these five years do not need to be continuous; candidates may either be currently working as a children's/youth services librarian, have worked in this position in the past, or be a retired children's/youth services librarian; the library experience may be in public, school, or special libraries; have a graduate degree from an ALA-accredited program. Selection criteria: Selection will be evaluated on the following: the description of the topic of study for the fellowship period; this should include the significance of the topic to youth services, research questions, a literature review, research methodology and steps, areas of the Baldwin Collection to be examined for the study topic, and framework/plan for creating the public programs; this description should be as detailed as possible; the applicant must be prepared to spend a minimum of one week or up to four weeks in Gainesville doing research; the time spent does not have to be in successive weeks; it can be broken into shorter visits to campus. How to apply: Applicants must be submit online application form; must write a 500-word report submit a copy. Focus: Library and archival sciences.