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Educational Assistance Committee

The Educational Assistance committee provides Graduate Library School scholarships, Continuing Education Grants, and NELA Conference Grants.

2010 Scholarships: The Educational Assistance Committee is pleased to announce this year's Graduate study scholarship winners:

Full-time students receiving $2000 scholarships:

  • Susanna Hall (Syracuse Univ., MA resident) Ms. Hall, currently a high school literacy and humanities teacher, wants to become a middle or high school librarian, and “an academic and literacy resource to teachers and students in all content areas of a school community.”
  • Nicole Fonsh (Simmons, MA resident) Ms. Fonsh works in a research library while volunteering as a cataloger at a state library.  Her goal is to be a “top-rate general or business reference librarian at a public library.”

Part-time students receiving $1000 scholarships:

  • Carol Anne Geary (Southern Conn., MA resident) Ms. Geary will continue her work in young adult services and in professional organizations, and hopes to “bring some experience of [her] own to mentor and reach out to new librarians in the field.”
  • Alexandra W. Nyary (Simmons, MA resident) Ms. Nyary is very interested in diversity and outreach, and plans to work in a public library to “help the illiterate patrons, the non-English speaking, the disabled, the deaf, and anyone else who feels their public library is inaccessible for whatever reason.”

We congratulate the winners, and wish them the best as they complete their degrees.

Spectrum Scholars: This year, three New England students were named ALA Spectrum Scholars. Christina M. Thompson, Miranda Rivers, and Winifred Mixon will receive matching grants from NELA in the amount of $500.

Conference Grants: $150 grants were awarded to the following first-time NELA Conference attendees: Beth Nerbonne and Rose Marie Zaharek.

Chair

Vickie Turcotte

Vickie Turcotte
Educational Assistance Committee Chair
Chelmsford Public Library
25 Boston Rd
Chelmsford, MA 01824
978-256-5521 x106
978-256-8511 fax
educationalassistance+NELAsecure+nelib.org

Committee Members

  • Victoria Antonitis, N. Providence P.L., RI
  • Sherry Evans, Portsmouth P.L., Portsmouth, NH
  • Debbie Lozito, Edythe Dyer Library, Hampden, ME
  • Karen Patterson, CT
  • Cynthia Watters, Middlebury College Library, VT