Hubbard and Beard Scholarship Winners

The GLA Scholarship Committee is very pleased to announce the 2010 winners of the Hubbard and Beard Scholarships:

The Charles Beard Scholarship is awarded this year to Holly Phillips, who has served in different capacities providing outreach, including bookmobile clerk and branch manager, for the Moultrie-Colquitt County Library. Holly is attending Valdosta State University for her MLS.

And, this year's C.W. Hubbard Scholarship recipient is Bonnie Moore. Bonnie has been a Library Technical Assistant at Georgia Northwestern Technical College for 10 years and is also working on her MLS at Valdosta State.

Congratulations Holly and Bonnie!

Barbara Petersohn, Chair
GLA Scholarship Committee

Recordings of First Two Wednesday Webinars Available

The first two Wednesday Webinar sessions, hosted by GLA and GPLS, took place on June 16th, and turnout was amazing. If you were unable to make the sessions, recordings are now available online.

• Introducing Transliteracy with Bobbi Newman
• Pivot Points for Change with Buffy Hamilton
  

Registration is now open for the next two sessions on July 21, The Social Library with Cliff Landis and Library on the Radio with Charlie Bennett and Ameet Doshi.

This series highlights trends, innovation, and best practices in Georgia libraries, but anyone from outside the state or country is more than welcome to register!

New Georgia Library Spotlight: Woodstock Public Library

[Note: This is an archived post. This spotlight has been removed to make way for the latest spotlight.]

Check the GLA homepage for the newest Georgia Library Spotlight feature on the Woodstock Public Library.

Would you like to see your library profiled on the GLA homepage? Please email Sarah Steiner at ssteiner [at] gsu.edu to have your name added to the list.

Academic Library Division Call for Papers - COMO 2010

The Academic Library Division of the Georgia Library Association/Georgia Chapter of ACRL invites Georgia’s academic librarians to submit papers for presentation at the 2010 Georgia Council of Media Organizations’ Conference, COMO XXII. Accepted papers are to be delivered in person at the scheduled session. This will be the fifteenth year that there will be cash awards for the two papers judged best of those submitted. The two awards – one funded by Blackwell’s Book Services and one by EBSCO – will be presented at the Academic Library Division luncheon.
Details on the ALD site.