AASL ABC-CLIO Leadership Grant The grant, up to $1,750 donated by ABC-CLIO, is given to school library media associations that are AASL affiliates for planning and implementing leadership programs at the state, regional, or local levels.
AASL Beyond Words: Dollar General School Library Relief Fund Beyond Words: Dollar General school library relief fund for public school libraries in the states served by Dollar General. The fund provides grants to public schools whose school library programs have been affected by a disaster.
AASL Innovative Reading Grant The AASL Innovative Reading Grant supports the planning and implementation of a unique and innovative program for children which motivates and encourages reading, especially with struggling readers.
ALSC Bookapalooza Program The Bookapalooza Program offers select libraries a collection of materials that will help transform their collections and provide the opportunity for these materials to be used in their community in creative and innovative ways.
ALSC BWI Summer Reading Program Grant This ALSC award provides $3,000 to fund an outstanding theme-based summer reading program for children in a public library.
ALSC Maureen Hayes Author/Illustrator Visit Award This $4,000 award was established with funding from Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing, in honor of Maureen Hayes, to bring together children and nationally recognized authors/illustrators by funding an author/illustrator visit to a library.
Arthur Curley Memorial Lecture The Arthur Curley Memorial Lecture is held annually at ALA Midwinter Meetings and honors ALA past president Arthur Curley.
EMIERT Coretta Scott King Book Award Donation Grant Helps build collections and bring books into the lives of children in latchkey situations, preschool programs, faith-based reading projects, homeless shelters, charter schools and underfunded libraries. An enduring message of the Task Force's Public Awareness Campaign is that books and reading can only add value to children's lives if books are present in their lives along with opportunities to read and be read to. The Coretta Scott King Task Force believes children lives must be saturated with books and reading opportunities.
H. W. Wilson Library Staff Development Grant An annual award consisting of $3,500 and a 24k gold-framed citation given to a library organization whose application demonstrates greatest merit for a program of staff development designed to further the goals and objectives of the library organization. Donated by the H.W. Wilson Company. Deadline is December 1.
Lincoln: The Constitution and the Civil War The American Library Association (ALA) Public Programs Office is pleased to announce its collaboration with the National Constitution Center (NCC) in Philadelphia on a new traveling exhibit, “Lincoln: The Constitution and the Civil War.” One copy of the exhibition will travel to public, academic and special libraries from mid-2009 through 2011.
LLAMA Cultural Diversity Grant Guidelines The goals of the grant program are to support the creation and dissemination of resources that will assist library administrators and managers in developing a vision and commitment to diversity, and in fostering and sustaining diversity throughout their institutions; to increase the representation and advancement of people of color in the field of library administration and management and to establish productive partnerships between LAMA and major national organizations representing minority interests; to strengthen the diversity of LAMA membership, committees, and officers and integrate diversity into all aspects of the Association's work.
Loleta D. Fyan Grant Loleta D. Fyan Grant of $10,000 is given annually to the applicant whose proposal results in the development and improvement of public libraries and the services they provide is designed to effect changes in public library services that are innovative and responsive to the future.
PLA Baker & Taylor Entertainment Audio Music/Video Product Award The purpose of the Baker & Taylor Entertainment Audio Music/Video Product Award is to promote the development of a circulating audio music/video product collection in public libraries and increase the exposure of the format within the community.
PLA Leadership Fellows Scholarship Information PLA's newest scholarship program, PLA Leadership Fellows, offers PLA members who are public library managers a chance to attend executive leadership training at some of the best universities in the United States including Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government and the Business School at Columbia University.
Scholastic Library Publishing National Library Week Grant The Scholastic Library Publishing National Library Week grant will award $3,000 to a single U.S. library for the best public awareness campaign during National Library Week.
Visions of the Universe: Four Centuries of Discovery The American Library Association (ALA), in cooperation with the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) Office of Public Outreach, Baltimore, Maryland, and the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO), Cambridge, Massachusetts, invites public libraries to apply for a national tour to 40 sites of “Visions of the Universe: Four Centuries of Discovery,” a traveling exhibition to mark the International Year of Astronomy (IYA) in 2009.
We the People Bookshelf The We the People Bookshelf, a collection of classic books for young readers, is a project of the National Endowment for the Humanities’ (NEH) We the People program, conducted in cooperation with the American Library Association (ALA) Public Programs Office. Each year, NEH identifies a theme important to the nation's heritage and selects books that embody that theme to build the We the People Bookshelf.
Women's National Book Association Eastman Grant The WNBA Eastman Grant awards up to $750 to a librarian interested in learning about the relationship between the library and publishing professions. The grant is funded by the Women's National Book Association and administered by ALA Publishing Services. Application deadline is November 1.
World Book Information Literacy Goal Award Two annual awards consisting of $5,000 and a gold-framed citation of achievement to a public and school library. The World Book/ALA Information Literacy Goal Award seeks to promote exemplary information literacy programs in public and school libraries. The annual awards are designed to encourage and support innovative and effective information literacy programs in today’s school and public libraries. Deadline is December 1.
YALSA BWI Collection Development Grant The BWI/YALSA Collection Development Grant awards $1,000 for collection development to YALSA members who represent a public library and who work directly with young adults ages 12 to 18. Up to two grants will be awarded annually.
YALSA Frances Henne VOYA Research Grant The Frances Henne grant provides $1,000 of seed money for small-scale projects that will encourage research that responds to the YALSA Research Agenda.
YALSA Great Books Giveaway Each year the YALSA office receives more than 1,200 newly published children's, young adult and adult books, audiobooks, and other materials. YALSA and the cooperating publishers are offering one year's worth of review materials as a contribution to a library in need.
