[Libs-Or] Fellowship opportunity

[Robin Howe]

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Ever have an itch for deepening your knowledge of historic children’s literature?  Would you like to do this scholarly reading, researching, and writing in sunny Florida in 2020?  If this describes you, the time is right to apply for the Louise Seaman Bechtel Fellowship.


The Louise Seaman Bechtel Fellowship provides a grant up to $4,000 to a qualified children’s librarian to spend up to four weeks reading and studying at the Baldwin Library of Historical Children's Literature of the George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida, Gainesville. The Baldwin Library contains a special collection of 130,000 volumes of children’s literature published mostly before 1950. The fellowship is endowed in memory of Louise Seaman Bechtel and Ruth M. Baldwin.


The guidelines for the grant and link to apply are found here: http://www.ala.org/alsc/awardsgrants/profawards/bechtel.  Applicants must be members of ALSC. Applications and supporting materials are due by October 15, 2019.


Previous winners have described this experience as “an energizing break” and “a complete professional game changer!”  For a peek at past winning Bechtel Fellowship topics, click here:   http://www.ala.org/alsc/awardsgrants/profawards/bechtel/bechtelpastwinners


Robin J. Howe, MLIS rhowe at kcls.org<http://rhowe@kcls.org/> (she/her/hers)
Children's Librarian, King County Library System
Member, Special Collections and Bechtel Fellowship Committee
Kent Library 253.859.3330
212 2nd Ave N, Kent, WA 98032

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