Brief Description: Scholarship File (1970-2019), including application materials, budgets, correspondence, documentation, letters of recommendation, scholarship records, and general background information concerning annual scholarships offered by ALA for students attending library school programs and the recipients of these scholarships. The scholarships include the ALA Century Scholarship, the ALSC Bound to Stay Bound Scholarship, the Marshall Cavendish Scholarship, the David H. Clift Scholarship, the Shirley Crawford Minority Scholarship, the Tom & Roberta Drewes Scholarship, the EBSCO / NMRT Scholarship, the Faxon Scholarship, the Mary V. Gaver Scholarship, the Louise Giles Minority Scholarship, the Miriam L. Hornback Scholarship, the Christopher Hoy / ERT Scholarship, the LITA / Christian Larew Scholarship, the Tony B. Leisner Scholarship, the Kino Lorber EDU / Video Round Table Scholarship, the Peter Lyman Memorial / SAGE Scholarship, the Cicely Phippen Marks Scholarship, the ALSC Frederic G. Melcher Scholarship, and the ProQuest Scholarship.

Record Series Number: 9/1/7

Created by: Office for Human Resource Development and Recruitment (HRDR)

Volume: 5.0 Cubic Feet

Acquired: 01/25/2020.

Arrangement: Arranged by topic, then chronologically and alphabetically thereafter.

Biographical Note for Office for Human Resource Development and Recruitment (HRDR) :

The Final Report of the Activities Committee on New Directions for ALA and Subcommittee Reports (better known as the ACONDA report) which was accepted by the Membership and Council in 1970 established "manpower" as one of the Association's priorities.  It recommended that ALA's existing staff activities relating to personal welfare, library education and training, and recruiting be combined into a new "Office of Library Manpower," "Personnel Resources" was subsequently substituted for the term "manpower" when the new office was finally established in 1973.  Activities formerly carried out by the Office for Recruitment and the Library Administration Division Personnel Specialist position, as well as a special minority recruitment project were moved into OLPR at that time (1).

The Office for Library Personnel Resources (OLPR) combines ALA staff activities in library education, recruitment, and staff welfare to assist librarians and libraries in areas concerned with the rights, interests, and obligations of library personnel.  The office serves as a major component within ALA that concerns itself with librarianship as a profession; with the individual's career goals; and with the provision within library schools and libraries of policies and practices that enable staff to develop professionally (2).

The OLPR Advisory Committee advises OLPR on activities, problems, and procedures related to library concerns in recruitment, utilization, education and training, and staff welfare.  The committee identifies special areas of need or emphasis, suggests activities and programs and stimulates programs and projects related to library planning, development, and concerns.  The committee aids other agencies, groups, and organizations within and beyond the library profession.  In 1976, the Advisory Committee was increased from 5 to 9 members, to broaden the types of representation.

The name of the office was changed to the Office for Human Resource Development and Recruitment (HRDR) on June 30, 1999, with corresponding changes in committee functions.

Sub-Groups:

1-Director's Office

2-Office for Recruitment

3-Advisory Committees

4-Publications (OLPR Bulletin, Library Marketplace, R.I.P. Kits)

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