{"id":170,"date":"2009-11-16T12:53:59","date_gmt":"2009-11-16T21:53:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.consortiumlibrary.org\/blogs\/flip\/2009\/11\/16\/ebsco-offers-five-scholarships-to-attend-2010-ala-midwinter-meeting\/"},"modified":"2019-09-23T16:45:17","modified_gmt":"2019-09-24T01:45:17","slug":"ebsco-offers-five-scholarships-to-attend-2010-ala-midwinter-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/consortiumlibrary.org\/blogs\/flip\/2009\/11\/16\/ebsco-offers-five-scholarships-to-attend-2010-ala-midwinter-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"EBSCO offers five scholarships to attend 2010 ALA Midwinter Meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">EBSCO offers five scholarships to attend 2010 ALA Midwinter Meeting<br \/>\nCHICAGO &#8211; The American Library Association (ALA) and EBSCO are partnering to offer five scholarships for librarians to attend the 2010 ALA Midwinter Meeting in Boston. The meeting takes place Jan. 15-19, 2010, and offers an opportunity for continuing education, meetings and interaction with colleagues.<br \/>\nEach EBSCO scholarship will be in the amount of $1,500, and one of the five scholarships will be awarded to a first-time conference attendee. The scholarship money is to be used for conference registration, travel and expenses.<br \/>\nDeadline for entry is Nov. 23, 2009, and the application information can be found at: <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ala.org\/ala\/awardsgrants\/awardsrecords\/ebscosponsorship\/ebscosponsorship.cfm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.ala.org\/ala\/awardsgrants\/awardsrecords\/ebscosponsorship\/ebscosponsorship.cfm<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><br \/>\nScholarship recipients will be notified no later than Dec. 15, 2009.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">To apply, candidates must complete the application criteria and submit an essay that answers the following question: \u201cWhat do you believe to be the biggest challenge in managing electronic resources in libraries today, and what solutions do you envision?\u201d Essays and applications will be judged by a jury designated by ALA. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">About EBSCO<br \/>\nEBSCO is the world\u2019s premier full-service provider of information, offering a portfolio of services that spans the realm of print and electronic subscription access and management, research databases and more. The company\u2019s e-resource renewal and management tools help librarians accomplish in hours what once took weeks. For more information, please visit www.ebsco.com  .<br \/>\nContact: Cheryl Malden<br \/>\nALA Governance Office<br \/>\n(312) 280-3247<br \/>\n&#x63;&#x6d;&#97;&#108;d&#x65;&#x6e;&#x40;&#97;la&#x2e;&#x6f;&#114;&#103;<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_169\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-169\" style=\"width: 135px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-169\" src=\"https:\/\/consortiumlibrary.org\/blogs\/flip\/files\/2009\/11\/images.jpeg\" alt=\"American Library Association \" width=\"135\" height=\"135\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-169\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">American Library Association <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EBSCO offers five scholarships to attend 2010 ALA Midwinter Meeting CHICAGO &#8211; The American Library Association (ALA) and EBSCO are partnering to offer five scholarships for librarians to attend the 2010 ALA Midwinter Meeting in Boston. The meeting takes place Jan. 15-19, 2010, and offers an opportunity for continuing education, meetings and interaction with colleagues. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/consortiumlibrary.org\/blogs\/flip\/2009\/11\/16\/ebsco-offers-five-scholarships-to-attend-2010-ala-midwinter-meeting\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;EBSCO offers five scholarships to attend 2010 ALA Midwinter Meeting&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[241,7427],"class_list":["post-170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-ala-conference","tag-scholarships"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/consortiumlibrary.org\/blogs\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/consortiumlibrary.org\/blogs\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/consortiumlibrary.org\/blogs\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/consortiumlibrary.org\/blogs\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/consortiumlibrary.org\/blogs\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/consortiumlibrary.org\/blogs\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":760,"href":"https:\/\/consortiumlibrary.org\/blogs\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170\/revisions\/760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/consortiumlibrary.org\/blogs\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/consortiumlibrary.org\/blogs\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/consortiumlibrary.org\/blogs\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}