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If you have questions about this scholarship program or need assistance in completing the process, please contact the NLLN Office at
1-800-450-1032 or rsolie@nlln.org.


Professional Engagement
Activities Awards

Reports
Guidelines (Word doc)
Application form (Word doc)

 

GUIDELINES

Statement of need

Northern Lights Library Network advocates for and strengthens all libraries by supporting library professionals in our region who devote time and service to the ongoing work of the profession. These activities take place in many different forms, but it is work above and beyond the daily job and is not continuing education in nature. These activities are considered acts of professional engagement and serve to strength the profession. This work is a benefit to the entire library community.

Goal

In order to encourage professional engagement, particularly by early career librarians, NLLN will promote this kind of professional engagement and provide encouragement through financial support. NLLN feels that the financial responsibility for this work should not fall exclusively on the individual or on the institution for which the individual may work. These funds acknowledge that the work of librarians to strength their profession and to improve libraries is important and essential work.

Guidelines

NLLN will provide up to $1,000.00 per year per individual professional working in an NLLN member library to supplement the overall cost of professional engagement activities.

Professional engagement activities may be regional, state, national, or international. These may be one-time events or ongoing engagement. Examples of eligible activities include such things as holding state or national office in a professional library organization, participating in the committee work of state/national/international professional organizations, participating in task forces and forums pertinent to the library community as a whole, or being a spokesperson on behalf of libraries in a larger arena.

NLLN funds are supplemental in nature and are not intended to cover the entire cost of participation.

An individual may apply by submitting a Proposal for Funding to the NLLN Continuing Education Scholarship and Professional Engagement Funds Review Committee. Proposals will include a statement outlining the scope of proposed activities and anticipated value/outcomes of these activities, reason for requesting funds, applicant's institutional/organizational affiliations, and other funding sources that will support participation, including personal and institutional support. Funding may be used for travel, lodging, meals, and incidental expenses.

Each recipient will provide NLLN with written reports on their activities and how these activities have benefited the profession as a whole and/or the library community at large. These written reports will be made available to the larger library community via meetings, conferences, special presentations, and will be posted on the NLLN website.

Funds will be paid out as a reimbursement for expenses approved in the funding proposal. Reimbursement requests must be submitted on the proper form and with receipts. A written report on the professional engagement activity must accompany the request for reimbursement.

 

 

If you have questions about this program
or need assistance in completing the process,
please contact the NLLN Office at
1-800-450-1032 or rsolie@nlln.org