JaEun Ku, Korean Studies Librarian at the Richard C. Rudolph East Asian Library, has been selected as a recipient of the 2007 Dianna V. Braddom FRFDS Scholarship Award by the Library Administration and Management Association (LAMA). Ms. Ku will receive her award of $1,000 at the LAMA President’s Program on Sunday, June 24, 2007 during the ALA Annual Conference in Washington, D.C. She will have the opportunity to enhance her fundraising skills by attending the LAMA Fundraising and Financial Development programs.

Information Literacy funding at UCLA

Is there an event that you’d like to attend that could enhance your information literacy skills and knowledge? Wondering about how to fund it? Support of up to $750 may be available for activities and training related to information literacy, including teaching, presentation skills, technologies used for instructional purposes, and information literacy program development. Examples include attending or presenting at pre-conferences, workshops, courses, webinars, and seminars.

Go to www2.library.ucla.edu/5826.cfm and click on Learn more about how to get funding for Information Literacy-related professional development activities for more information.

Highlight Your Successes

Are you presenting information literacy-related material at a conference, meeting, or other venue? Are you being sponsored or funded by Information Literacy Program (ILP) attend an event? If you are, let the ILP Communications Interest Group know! This will give us the opportunity to highlight your efforts and the event you are attending.

Please let us know what you are doing so that we may spotlight your efforts and successes! Contact Andrea Lynch (andlynch@library.ucla.edu), Chair of the ILP Communications interest group.

Looking for a good book on information literacy?

The Ilene F. Rockman Publication of the Year Award for 2007 goes to "Centers for Learning: Writing Centers and Libraries in Collaboration, Publications in Librarianship #58," written by James K. Elmborg, associate professor, School of Library and Information Science at the University of Iowa, and Sheril Hook, coordinator of Instructional Services at the University of Toronto, Mississauga.

The award recognizes an outstanding publication related to instruction in a library environment published in the preceding two years, and honors Ilene F. Rockman's professional contributions to academic librarianship in the area of information literacy.

The authors will be presented with the $3,000 award and plaque during the 2007 American Library Association (ALA) Annual Conference in Washington D.C. at the IS program on Sunday, June 24, 2007, at 1:30 p.m.

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