Posts tagged "Award"

Silent auction benefiting ASCLA Century Scholarship a smashing success

A silent auction held at the ASCLA/COSLA reception at ALA’s Midwinter Meeting raised $1,145 to benefit the Association of Specialized and Cooperative Library Agencies (ASCLA) Century Scholarship.

ASLCA/KLAS/NOD Award Goes To “Libraries and Autism: We’re Connected”

by Kathleen Hegarty, Chair, ASCLA Awards Committee At the ALA Midwinter Conference, the ASCLA Awards Committee selected as the winner of the ASCLA/KLAS/NOD Award “Libraries and Autism: We’re Connected,” a remarkable project developed by Margaret Kolaya, director of the Scotch Plains Public Library, and Daniel Weiss, director of the Fanwood Memorial Library, both in New...

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Educator, library student, and ASCLA member Jessica Fenster-Sparber was one of the ten honorees at the 2008 Maybelline New York Beauty of Education dinner, held at the historic New York Public Library in Manhattan. Fenster-Sparber is a library coordinator who works with the city�s incarcerated youth as well as the CEO of Literacy for Incarcerated...