We are pleased to announce winners of the 2014 ALAO Continuing Education Grant. The Professional Development Committee conducted a blind review of seven strong applications and selected the following three ALAO members to receive the award:
Maureen Berry, First Year Experience Librarian at Wright State University, will be awarded an honorable mention award of $200 to attend "Extending our Reach: The Inaugural Colloquium on Libraries & Service-Learning" to be held at Santa Clara University in California.
Daniela Solomon, Research Services Librarian for Engineering at Case Western Reserve University, will be awarded $450 to attend the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Annual Conference and Exposition in Indianapolis.
Jane Wu, Systems Librarian at Otterbein University, will be awarded $1,850 to attend “Research Data Access and Preservation Summit 2014” in San Diego.
Special thanks to the PDC for their time and careful review of each application. The 2014 PDC members are Katie Blocksidge (OSU Newark), Kevin Caslow (Northeast Ohio Medical University), Mark Eddy (Case Western Reserve University), Jeff Franks (University of Akron), Julie Gustafson (College of Wooster), Dana Knott (Columbus State CC, Delaware), Kathleen Pickens (Cincinnati State), and Suzanne Smailes (Wittenberg).
Katy Kelly, University of Dayton,
PDC Chair
