ALCTS and Sage announce recipients of Support Staff Grant Award Pamela Bluh 08 Feb 2005 17:38 UTC
SAGE/ALCTS Award Granted to Three Deserving Support Staff Thousand Oaks, California, and London, United Kingdom (February 7, 2005) SAGE Publications, in partnership with ALAs Association for Library Collections & Technical Services (ALCTS), are pleased to announce the winners of the new 2005 ALCTS Support Staff Grant. This grant is supplying airfare, hotel and conference registration for the following three library support staff personnel to attend the ALA Annual Conference in Chicago this June: Linda Christine Ericson Library Assistant, Consortium Library, University of Alaska, Anchorage, Alaska Heidi M. Jensen Library Assistant, Pioneer Library System, Canandaigua, New York Lydia C. Williams Archives and Records Manager, Greenwood Library, Longwood University, Farmville, Virginia The grant was offered to full time paraprofessionals with at least three years experience in technical services whod never attended ALA. The award recipients together have over three decades of experience! And these well- deserving individuals arent just support staff. They are active library employees, involved in their state library and paraprofessional organizations, handling such complex tasks as organizing workshops, editing and writing for journals, chairing committees, and furthering their education. Certainly, energetic and committed staff like these will return from the ALA Conference with much information to share. Were pleased to help these deserving library staff members to attend the ALA Conference, said Blaise Simqu, SAGE President and CEO, commenting on the ALCTS Support Staff Grant. We know that support staff are often the unsung heroes in todays libraries, and the realities of library budgets seldom provide the finances for them to attend conferences. The ALCTS Support Staff Grant award process confirmed to us that we have impressive support staff working in our libraries, said Pamela Bluh, Chair of the 2005 ALCTS Support Staff Grant Award Jury. The response to the grant far exceeded our expectations and we were very impressed, not only with the large number of entries, but also with all the remarkable candidates. About SAGE: SAGE Publications is a leading international publisher of journals, books, and electronic media for academic, educational, and professional markets. Since 1965, SAGE has helped inform and educate a global community of scholars, practitioners, researchers, and students. SAGE Publications, a privately owned corporation, has principal offices in Thousand Oaks, California, London, United Kingdom, and in New Delhi, India. About ALCTS: The Association for Library Collections & Technical Services is responsible for the following activities: acquisition, identification, cataloging, classification, and preservation of library materials; the development and coordination of the country's library resources; and those areas of selection and evaluation involved in the acquisition of library materials and pertinent to the development of library resources.