Tooting My Own Horn
January 17th, 2005 by Sophie BrookoverI hemmed & hawed a bit over blogging this myself, because I don’t want to be one of those “look at ME” people, but it seemed both silly and coy to ask someone else to blog it for me. So here goes. I’ll definitely be seeing you all in Chicago, because I was selected as a recipient of the Baker & Taylor/YALSA Scholarship Grant. The scholarship “is awarded for first time attendance at an Annual Conference” and is awarded to two recipients: a public Young Adult librarian and a School Media Specialist serving YAs. Tori Jensen, of John Glenn Middle School in Maplewood, Minnesota, is this year’s SMS recipient of the award, which provides $1000 to each of the recipients to defray the cost of attending our first ALA Annual Conference.
It would be safe to say that when committee chair Sarajo Wentling (and full disclosure — Sarajo is my YALSA mentor, too, though she waited to speak last when the committee was reviewing my application, and we exchanged only the most cursory of e-mails until the day I found out I’d won) called me to relay the good news, I wasn’t even remotely this composed. It might even be fair to say that I indulged in a few moments of unadulterated, possibly incoherent squee when I found out.
Tags: ALAMidwinter2005, conferences
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