[ILL-L] ALA 2008--you know you want to go, STARS/Atlas can help!

[Collette Mak]

Last few days to get your application in for the STARS/Atlas Systems 
mentoring award!   If you're new to resource sharing a $1,000 would be a 
big help to helping you attend ALA 2008 then no time to snooze!  Get 
your application in for the RUSA STARS/Atlas Systems Mentoring award. If 
it's postmarked by December 1st or it's in my email box when I get to 
work on Monday December 3rd you'll be considered! 

This award is intended to help those of you new to resource sharingto 
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?!   We are your 
community and we want to meet you! 

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.  Should it be 
electronic or paper?  Whatever works for you is fine--though at this 
point electronic submission is going to help you with the deadline.  
'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 is 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 3, 2007
Nominations should be sent to Collette Mak
by email:    (collette at incolsa.net)
by ground:   6202 Morenci Trail, Indianapolis IN  USA 46268




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