The Louise Seaman Bechtel Fellowship at the Baldwin Library


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.

  

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
 

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