[Libs-Or] Now Accepting WHCLIST Nominations!

[Diedre Conkling]

http://www.districtdispatch.org/2015/03/now-accepting-whclist-nominations/Now
Accepting WHCLIST Nominations!

Posted by: Lisa Lindle <http://www.districtdispatch.org/author/llindle/> March
3, 2015 in Library Advocacy
<http://www.districtdispatch.org/category/library-advocacy/>, Washington
Office News
<http://www.districtdispatch.org/category/Washington-Office-News/>

The White House Conference on Library and Information Services Taskforce
(WHCLIST) and the ALA Washington Office are calling for nominations for the
WHCLIST Award. Each year, the award is granted to a non-librarian
participant in National Library Legislative Day (NLLD). The winner receives
a stipend of $300 and two free nights at the Liaison hotel.
[image: The Washington Monument with flowers in the foreground.]

Photo by Poco a poco

WHCLIST has been an effective force in library advocacy nationally,
statewide and locally since the White House Conferences on Library and
Information Services in 1979 and 1991. WHCLIST has provided its assets to
the ALA Washington Office to transmit its spirit of dedicated, passionate
library support to a new generation of advocates. Both ALA and WHCLIST are
committed to ensuring the American people get the best library services
possible.
The criteria for the WHCLIST Award are:

   - The recipient should be a library supporter (trustee, friend, general
   supporter) and not a professional librarian.
   - Recipient should be a first-time attendee of NLLD.

Representatives of WHCLIST and the ALA Washington office will choose the
recipient. The ALA Washington Office will contact the recipient’s senators
and representatives to announce the award. The winner of the WHCLIST Award
will be announced at NLLD. The deadline for applications is April 1, 2015.

To apply for the WHCLIST award, please submit a completed NLLD registration
form; a letter explaining why you should receive the award; and a letter of
reference from a library director, school librarian, library board chair,
Friend’s group chair, or other library representative to:

Lisa Lindle
Grassroots Communications Coordinator
American Library Association
1615 New Hampshire Ave., NW
First Floor
Washington, DC 20009
202-628-8419 (fax)
llindle at alawash.org

Note: Applicants must register for NLLD and pay all associated costs.
Applicants must make their own travel arrangements. The winner will be
reimbursed for two free nights in the NLLD hotel in D.C and receive the
$300 stipend to defray the costs of attending the event.


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