[United State] Spectrum Scholarship Program- The American Library Asosiation
Established in 1997, the Spectrum Scholarship Program is the American Library Association’s national diversity and recruitment effort designed to address the specific issue of under representation of critically needed ethnic librarians within the profession while serving as a model for ways to bring attention to larger diversity issues in the future. As racial, ethnic and ethno-linguistic communities grow, Spectrum’s major drive is to recruit a representative workforce. Spectrum recruits and awards scholarships to American Indian/Alaska Native, Asian, Black/African American, Hispanic/Latino or Native Hawaiian/Other Pacific Islander students.
With the mission of improving service at the local level through the development of a representative workforce that reflects the communities served by all libraries in the 21st Century, the ALA Spectrum Scholarship provides a one-year $5,000 scholarship and over $1,500 in professional development opportunities to eligible students planning to attend an ALA-accredited graduate program in library and information studies or an ALA-recognized NCATE School Library Media program.
In 2007, the Spectrum Scholarship Program will be celebrating its 10th Anniversary, and funded in part by a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), will be awarding over 60 scholarships for 2007-2008. The deadline to apply is March 1, 2007. See our website for more information: http://www.ala.org/spectrum
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