Dear Everyone:
I will be at CSUN all next week. I have information for the vendors for
paticipating at both the brand new Texas Library Association Accessibility
Pavilion and what ALA Accessibility Pavilion. I will do my best to get the
word out and utilize promotion of the ALA ASCLA Century Scholarship Diversity
Initiative to do so. I of course will be distributing information, bookmarks,
and brochures - also in alternative formats - about the ALA ASCLA Century
Scholarship Diversity Initiative. As we await news about our 2002 Scholar[s],
we are recruiting for 2003 and beyond. Century Scholars are able to use the
scholarship funds to attend conferences, such as ALA, CSUN, etc. .
I believe that we should incorporate your idea, Sarah, into/as part of the
independently-funded ASCLA Century Scholarship Diversity Initiative
(http://www.ala.org/ascla/centuryscholarship.html) which already has wide name
recognition. P.S. If vendors - or any one else - wishes to contribute to the
ASCLA Century Scholarship (this NOT a solicitation, but simply a point of
information: check to ASCLA earmarked for the ASCLA Century Scholarship), then
we will have more money and opportunities to give Century Scholarships - that
can be used for ALA conference attendance, etc. - to many more people.
I have attended CSUN every year since March 2000 and have distributed publicity
and have spoken with vendors about supporting - though not necessarily
monetarily, the ASCLA Century Scholarship Diversity Initiative: perhaps by
providing internships/jobs for [potential] Century Scholars, distributing
Century information to interested parties, relatives, friends. ...
The ALA Development Office, through which - as Audrey pointed out - requests
for seeking funding sources in ALA must pass - already is VERY MUCH aware and
NON-monetarily supportive of the independently-funded ALA ASCLA Century
Scholarship. The ALA ASCLA Century Scholarship is a scholarship which also
benefits from people buying tickets/attending the ALA Annual Scholarship Bash
(thanks to some advocacy with Ann Symons). Thanks to continual promotion within
ALISE and programs since 2000 at ALISE Conferences, and promotion to LIS
programs individually, the ALA ASCLA Century Scholarship is very well known in
the LIS Education community. I understand that there has been excellent
response as far as applications for the 2002 ASCLA Century Scholarship. As
Chair of the ASCLA Century Scholarship Committee, I have received a number of
inquiries. The word IS getting out. And there are many Century Scholarship
applicants, even though they may not win Century Scholarships, who wish to join
and will join and become active in ASCLA/ ASCLA LSSPS. [Our second Century
Scholar (2001) Simon Healey already is running for an LSSPS office.]
We also can look to facilitating the establishment of matching Century
Scholarships in our own state library associations, libraries/worksites, LIS
programs, etc. as already has been accomplished by the Texas Library
Association - http://www.txla.org/html/awards/scholar/century.html (with the
help of my TALL Texan advocacy) and Brooklyn Public Library (thank you to our
Brooklyn Public ASCLA Advocates, Elizabeth Ridler and Jo Ann Radioli!) Many
thanks to Dean Estabrook of the University of Illinois GSLIS Program, the alma
mater of our #1 Century Scholar Rebecca Van Scyoc, who facilitated tyjhe
establishment of a matching Century Scholarship ("Diversity is Diversity is
Diversity"), doing for Century what they did for the ALA-funded Spectrum
Scholarship. All LIS programs have been encouraged to follow Illinois GSLIS's
lead. This is a good avenue to pursue because all LIS programs are interested
in having their own students become active in professional associations, LIS
students like to be able to place such involvement on their resumes, and
"professional activities" is an area on which LIS professionals are evaluated.
My recommendation: incorporate your initiative under the umbrella of the ALA
ASCLA Century Scholarship Diversity Initiative.
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P.S. I invite everyone attending CSUN 2002 to my program "A for Accessibility:
Positive Wins Every Time." Wednesday, March 20, 2002, 9:20-10:20 am, Newport B
Room-LAX Hilton Hotel. Please see: http://twu.edu/~s_perlow/csun2002.html
(handouts available via this webpage). Handouts also will be available at the
conference/ or otherwise by request in
alternative formats: Braille, Large Print, Electronic/Text-Only Format.
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Ellen Perlow
Chair, ALA ASCLA Century Scholarship Committee
The ALA ASCLA Century Scholarship Diversity Initiative
"Celebrating a New Century that Celebrates Diversity"
http://www.ala.org/ascla/centuryscholarship.html
Annual Submission Deadline: March 1st. Now recruiting for 2003!
See Also: ALA HRDR Page: http://www.ala.org/hrdr/scholarship.html
Texas Century Scholarship: http://www.txla.org/html/awards/scholar/century.html
Have YOU recruited/applied to be a Century Scholarship applicant today?
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> Sarah (and everyone else too),
> Have you talked to Cathleen Bourdon about the scholarship idea? The reason
> I ask is that ALA generally discourages individuals on committees from
> approaching vendors for money without clearing it first. The concern in the
> past has been that vendors get hit up by lots of people for small amounts
> of money, ALA will come off looking disorganized, and in total we'll end up
> with less money than if we went about it in a coordinated way. Also, there
> are some rules about what constitutes a scholarship, how much money has to
> be offered, and more I can't remember.
> I've been thinking about the vendors from the Accessibility Pavilion last
> year. At least some of them will be back for 2002, though I don't know
> which ones for sure. However, I can't think of any who didn't tell me that
> just exhibiting was stretching their budgets almost too far. ALA Annual is
> a bigger and more expensive show than many. Still, they may be worth a try,
> maybe even as a group. Deidre Ross should be able to get you the full list.
> I can come up with some of them right off the top of my head: Freedom
> Scientific, AI Squared (ZoomText folks), IBM Accessibility Center,
> Tack-Tiles Braille Systems, the Reading Pen folks. Some were non-profits
> like RFB&D and National Federation of the Blind, who are unlikely to be
> able to contribute. AlphaSmart wasn't in the Pavilion last year, but has
> been a vendor at Annual for a while. We were hoping to get them into the
> Pavilion this year.
> Let's talk about this a little more. Maybe we can come up with a package
> that would include a bit of expense money in it. We may not be able to call
> it a scholarship, at least not yet!
> Regards!
> Audrey
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sarah Hamrick [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2002 11:24 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: vendor suggestions
> I'm working on a project for the Libraries Serving Special Populations
> Section of ALA's ASCLA, and I could use some advice from AXSLIB
> subscribers. One of our goals for this year is to recruit new members,
> and as part of that goal we sent letters to students at almost every
> library school in the US and Canada. We're encouraged by the positive
> response we've had so far.
> We've corresponded with all the students who have responded to our
> initial letter and have encouraged them to make an effort to attend ALA
> annual conference in Atlanta this summer. Of course attending
> conference can be expensive, so we are also advising them on various
> funding sources for conference attendees.
> In the course of our discussions we realized it would be great if we
> could find a vendor or two who would be willing to put up some cash to
> serve as scholarship money for students who want to attend conference
> and are particularly interested in the area of services to people with
> disabilities. I'm willing to contact vendors on behalf of LSSPS, but
> I'm not sure who would be the best to contact. Having done this kind of
> thing before I know it is very time-consuming, so I would prefer to come
> up with a short list of potential donors.
> Can any of you suggest any vendors that might be willing to help us
> out? It would be good PR for them and a great opportunity for a
> student!
> Sarah
> --
> Sarah E. Hamrick
> Director of Information Services
> Gallaudet University Library
> 800 Florida Avenue, NE
> Washington, DC 20002
> (202) 651-5214 V/T
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