| The Bechtel Fellowship, awarded by the Association of Library Service
to Children (ALSC), a division of the American Library Association, awards
a mid-career librarian, with a minimum of eight years experience working
with children, $4,000 to spend a month reading and studying at the Baldwin
Library.
Applicants must be members of ALSC. |
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Previous winners and their areas of study: 1994
Sue McCleaf Nespeca - 19th and 20th century pop-up books 1995 Kathy Toon - 19th and early 20th
century series books 1996 Marsha Cutler - Fairy and folk
tales to be used in storytelling 1997 Jan Watkins - Family stories from
the 1930's and 1940's 1998 Kathy East - Books children would
have read in the 1880's, in preparation for establishing a one room
1880's school house for local children to visit 1999 Floyd Dickman - 19th and 20th
century editions of Cinderella 2000 Julia Massie - Children's poetry 2001 Mary Ann Paulin - Choral reading and
poetry for children 2001 Kathy Simonetta - Conflict resolution in
early children's books 2002 Jane Marino - The history and evolution of
children's songs 2003 Leslie Barban - E.Nesbit and early 20th Century British children's literature 2004 Mary Humphrey - The Heroic Quest Tales in Fairy Tales and Folk Literature 2005 Jean Hatfield - The literature of L. Frank Baum 2005 Joyce Laiosa - 19th Century Alphabet Books 2006 Sharon Deeds - Mother Goose, alive and well in the 21st century 2007 Jacquelyn S. Rogers - The child illustrated: social roles revealed through 19th and 20th century children's book illustrations 2007 Mary G. Marshall - The anatomy of a book collection: Ruth M. Baldwin and her quest to Build a Historical Children's Book Collection, 1953-1990 |
For more information on this fellowship, visit the ALSC
web site