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Here is a great opportunity for paraprofessionals to get a conference stipend. Please direct questions to the person whose name appears at the bottom of this announcement. Thank you. Laurie The deadline is about 2 weeks away for this award. I have received NO entries so far! Please tell your staff about it. You can tell them that the competition is low this year... ESCUE CONFERENCE STIPEND REQUIREMENTS The applicant must be a paraprofessional library worker in a Texas library. For the purposes of this application a paraprofessional library worker is defined as the equivalent to the Library Associate or Associate Specialist categories in the American Library Association policy statement, "Library Education and Personnel Utilization." This person performs supportive responsibilities at a high level in a library, normally working within established procedures and techniques, with some supervision by a professional. Duties require judgment and subject knowledge such as is represented by a four-year college education culminating in a bachelor's degree. Education may or may not include courses in library science. The applicant must agree to work four (4) hours at the TLA booth during the Conference, with the schedule to be arranged with the TLA Executive Director. The applicant must agree to submit a written report on the Conference to the TLA Office, with a copy to the Chair of the Scholarship & Research Committee within thirty (30) days of the end of the Conference. The report will be used to evaluate the stipend program. Deadline: Completed <http://www.txla.org/html/awards/scholar/escappl.html> application and letters of reference must be postmarked no later than December 15, 2006. Decisions will be made in February. http://www.txla.org/html/awards/scholar/escue.html Anna Stewart (512) 428-1096 Assistant Professor-Librarian Scarborough-Phillips Library, St. Edward's University . 3001 S. Congress Ave, Austin, TX 78704
