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<p class="MsoNormal" style="border:none;padding:0in"><span style="font-family:"Source Sans 3",sans-serif">Sent on behalf of
</span>ALSC Professional Recognition and Scholarships Committee member Brenda Dales -
<span style="color:#0070C0"><a href="mailto:dalesbl@miamioh.edu" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0070C0">dalesbl@miamioh.edu</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Source Sans 3",sans-serif;color:black">Applications for the Bechtel Fellowship are now being accepted. </span><span style="font-family:"Source Sans 3",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Source Sans 3",sans-serif;color:black">The Louise Seaman Bechtel Fellowship provides a grant up to $7,500 to a qualified children's librarian to spend up to four weeks reading and studying at the Baldwin Library of Historical Children's
Literature of the George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida, Gainesville. The Baldwin Library contains a special collection of 130,000 volumes of children's literature published mostly before 1950. The fellowship is endowed in memory of Louise Seaman
Bechtel and Ruth M. Baldwin.</span><span style="font-family:"Source Sans 3",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Source Sans 3",sans-serif;color:black">The application and more information can be found at </span><span style="font-family:"Source Sans 3",sans-serif;color:#0070C0"><a href="http://www.ala.org/alsc/awardsgrants/profawards/bechtel" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0070C0">http://www.ala.org/alsc/awardsgrants/profawards/bechtel</span></a></span><span style="font-family:"Source Sans 3",sans-serif;color:#0070C0"> </span><span style="font-family:"Source Sans 3",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Source Sans 3",sans-serif;color:black">The deadline for
<b>submitting materials is October 15, 2025</b>.</span><span style="font-family:"Source Sans 3",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Source Sans 3",sans-serif;color:black">For any questions about the award/application, please contact ALSC Professional Recognition and Scholarships Committee Co-Chairs, Gwen Vanderhage (</span><span style="font-family:"Source Sans 3",sans-serif;color:#0070C0"><a href="mailto:gvanderhage.ala@gmail.com" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0070C0">gvanderhage.ala@gmail.com</span></a></span><span style="font-family:"Source Sans 3",sans-serif;color:black">)
and Jenny Rosenoff (</span><span style="font-family:"Source Sans 3",sans-serif;color:#0070C0"><a href="mailto:jennyrosenoff@gmail.com" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0070C0">jennyrosenoff@gmail.com</span></a></span><span style="font-family:"Source Sans 3",sans-serif;color:black">).</span><span style="font-family:"Source Sans 3",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">The Penguin Random House Young Readers Group Award<b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#101828"> </span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#101828">provides a $1200 stipend to
up to two children's librarians to attend their first ALA Annual Conference. The 2026 ALA Annual Conference will take place June 25-30, in Chicago.
<b>Applications are due November 15, 2025</b>. For more information, check out our blog: </span><span style="color:#0070C0"><a href="https://www.alsc.ala.org/blog/2025/09/apply-for-the-penguin-random-house-young-readers-group-award-3/" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0070C0">https://www.alsc.ala.org/blog/2025/09/apply-for-the-penguin-random-house-young-readers-group-award-3</span></a></span>,
or go directly to the ALSC website to apply: <span style="color:#0070C0"><a href="https://www.ala.org/alsc/awardsgrants/profawards/penguinyoungreadersgroupaward" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0070C0">https://www.ala.org/alsc/awardsgrants/profawards/penguinyoungreadersgroupaward</span></a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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