AHEAD in Texas Talk on the Texas Century
Scholarship last updated Friday, November 2, 2001, 11 am
Welcome to
The Texas Century Scholarship Diversity Initiative:
Mentoring Our Students into the
Library and Information Science Profession
Ellen Perlow
(E-Mail: eperlow@twu.edu ;
Web: http://twu.edu/~s_perlow/)
Manager of Information Services, Texas Woman's
University School of
Library and Information Studies
AHEAD in
Texas Conference 2001: Flying Through the Millennium
Friday, November 9, 2001 - University of
Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX
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Program Abstract:
The library and information science [LIS] profession needs skilled,
dedicated professionals. LIS programs nationwide and in Texas avidly search
for enough students to fill their classes. Texas AHEAD Accessibility Officers
to the rescue! Learn about the new Texas Century
Scholarship Diversity Initiative. Guide our students into exciting careers
principled by equity of access and accessibility.
Summary:
The library and information science [LIS] profession needs skilled,
dedicated professionals. Library and information science programs nationwide
and specifically in Texas avidly search for enough students to fill their
classes. At any given time, the list of job openings on the Texas Library Association
job line usually numbers as many as 90 positions. And this job line only
includes professional level positions.
Texas AHEAD Accessibility Officers, our students, and the American and
Texas Library Associations' Century Scholarship Diversity Initiatives to the
rescue.
In June 1999, the American Library Association's [ALA's] ASCLA
[Association of Specialized and Cooperative Library Agencies] Division
established the independently-funded up-to-$2500 ALA ASCLA Century Scholarship
Diversity
Initiative (
http://www.ala.org/ascla/centuryscholarship.html) to recruit people
who do things differently, the students we serve in our Accessibility Offices,
into
library and information science [LIS] careers and to help fulfill ALA's
mission to bring needed diversity to the profession.
The
ALA ASCLA Century Scholarship now boasts two Century Scholars: Rebecca
Van Scyoc (2000), a graduate LIS student at the University of Illinois,
and Simon Healey (2001), graduating this coming December with a Master's of
Library Science degree from the University of Pittsburgh. We now are seeking
applicants for the 2002 ALA ASCLA Scholarship.
Deadline: March 1, 2002 and would very much appreciate your assistance
in recruiting potential Texas Century Scholars.
Established in February 2001, Texas Library Association's [TLA's]
companion
Texas Century Scholarship
(http://www.txla.org/html/awards/scholar/century.html) makes Texas a leader in
promoting ALA Century's diversity initiative and creating new professional
opportunities for our students.
To be eligible for the $2000 matching
Texas Century Scholarship, one must
win the
ALA ASCLA Century Scholarship, attend one of the three ALA-accredited LIS
programs in Texas (Texas Woman's University, University of North Texas, or
University of Texas at Austin), and agree to work in a Texas library or information center
for two years upon graduation. Let us have a Texas Century Scholar!
Texas AHEAD members and colleagues can play a vital role in expanding the
Texas Century Scholarship to include a to-be -submitted (by February 1, 2002)
grant proposal to the Institute of Museum and Library Services
(http://www.imls.gov/) or for a Demco, Inc./Texas
Library Association Grant to recruit 50 students who do things differently
in Texas academic institutions, the students whom our Accessibility Offices
serve, into actual, though perhaps not professional, positions in libraries and
information centers across the State of Texas. The 50 selected participants
will be mentored to pursue professional LIS degrees at Texas universities, The
grant, if approved, will help provide accessibility training and awareness to
the Texas libraries and information centers, fund a portion of the selected
participants' salaries, and provide needed assistive technology.
Of course, a key element in this grant process is the identification of
the 50 participants. The assistance of the Texas AHEAD community is kindly
requested in identifying and recruiting the 50 individuals in the Texas
Century Scholarship Initiative.
Join together in a roundtable discussion to create job opportunities for
our students in the new millennium.
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Century Scholarship Handout for Texas AHEAD 2001
Conference
The American Library Association
Association of Specialized and Cooperative Library Agencies
Division
ALA/ASCLA
The Century Scholarship Diversity
Initiative
http://www.ala.org/ascla/centuryscholarship.html
The ALA ASCLA Century Scholarship, first awarded in July 2000, is
an independently-funded diversity scholarship, currently up to
$2500 per year, to help enable students with differabilities
successfully complete American Library Association-accredited
school of library and information science programs and become
active library and information science professionals.
The ALA ASCLA Century Scholarship now boasts two Century Scholars: Rebecca
Van Scyoc (2000), a graduate LIS student at the University of Illinois, and
Simon Healey (2001), graduating this coming December with a Master's of
Library Science degree from the University of Pittsburgh. We now are seeking
applicants for the 2002 ALA ASCLA Scholarship. Deadline: March 1, 2002.
Established in February 2001, Texas Library Association's [TLA's]
companion Texas Century Scholarship
(http://www.txla.org/html/awards/scholar/century.html) makes Texas a leader in
promoting ALA Century's diversity initiative and creating new professional
opportunities for our students.
To be eligible for the $2000 matching Texas Century Scholarship, one must
win the ALA Century Scholarship, attend one of the three ALA-accredited LIS
programs in Texas Woman's University, University of North Texas, or University
of Texas at Austin], and agree to work in a Texas library or information center
for two years upon graduation. Let us have a Texas Century Scholar!
The annual deadline to apply for the Century Scholarship is March
1st.
The ALA ASCLA Century Scholarship Homepage:
http://www.ala.org/ascla/centuryscholarship.html
ALA/Century Scholarship Application: Annual Deadline: March
1
ALA ASCLA Century Scholarship
http://www.txla.org/html/awards/scholar/century.html
Have YOU recruited/applied to be a Century Scholarship applicant
today?
For more information, please contact: Ellen Perlow, Chair, ASCLA
Century Scholarship Committee, E-Mail: eperlow@twu.edu, Tel.:
940-898-2622, Fax: 940-898-2611, Web: http://twu.edu/~s_perlow/
or ASCLA Toll-Free Tel. 1-800-545-2433 ext. 4396; TDD:
1-888-814-7692 http://www.ala.org/ascla/
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