[ILL-L] Wish there were a way for you to go to ALA?

[Collette Mak]

It's too late to be first, but it's not too late to be considered!  
There's still time to send in an application for the RUSA STARS/Atlas 
Systems Mentoring award.  This award is intended to help those of you 
new to resource sharing attend ALA and connect with a bunch of other 
resource sharing junkies.  Where else are you going for find a couple of 
hundred people that can talk with enthusiasm about interlibrary loan, 
remote circ, document delivery and all the hardware/software that 
supports it?!  

If you're new to resource sharing and you'd like to get more directly 
involved with that community do we have an award for you!    Questions 
that come up are 'is it okay to nominate myself?'  Absolutely!  We 
EXPECT people new to resource sharing to nominate themselves.  'Do I 
have to have letters of support?'  Not at all--we're happy to receive 
and consider them but we want to be as inclusive as possible.  If you 
don't have anyone to ask for support don't worry about it.  'Does my 
library have to use ILLiad to be considered?'  Nope.   We love Atlas 
Systems for their support but the award is for ANY type of library and 
it system neutral.  "what needs to be in the application?'  there's no 
application form but we're most interested in knowing how you might use 
your time at ALA.  
Here's the more official announcement...
Collette Mak
collette at incolsa.net


With a big thank you to Atlas Systems we're happy to invite applications 
for the STARS Atlas Mentoring award. This award will be made to one 
library practitioner who is new to the field of interlibrary 
loan/document delivery or electronic reserves, and who has daily, 
hands-on involvement in the areas of borrowing, lending, document 
delivery, electronic reserves, material delivery, or resource sharing.  
This award is intended for persons from ALL types of libraries  
interested in a mentoring opportunity at ALA, and who have been in the 
profession for less than two years, or an individual who has recently 
accepted an interlibrary loan, resource sharing or electronic reserves 
position and has little or no experience in that area. M.L.S. or ALA 
membership is not required for this award.

Please feel free to nominate yourself!  Preference will be given to 
individuals who evidence greatest need of this stipend for the purposes 
of professional development, networking, initial or continuing 
education, and service to their local community--we're interested in how 
you'd use your time at ALA.

For a full description of the award visit the RUSA STARS Awards page at:
http://www.ala.org/STARSTemplate.cfm?Section=STARSawards

(the bread crumbs are http://www.ala.org, click on divisions, click on  
RUSA, click on STARS, click on awards)

The review process will begin December 1, 2007 

Nominations should be sent to Collette Mak
by email:    (collette at incolsa.net)
by ground:   6202 Morenci Trail, Indianapolis IN  USA 46268