Fairfield County Library Administrators Group (FLAG) will award up to two $500 MLS scholarships again this year.  If you have had or have now a qualified applicant working at your library, please let him or her know about the scholarship.  The deadline for receipts of all application materials is March 1, 2010.

The criteria for all scholarship applicants are:

* Applicants must be matriculating MLS students at ALA Accredited Master’s Programs in Library and Information Studies (verification required).

* Applicants must work or have worked in a FLAG member library within the last five years (see below for a list).

Scholarship winners will be presented with the award at the CLA annual conference at Mohegan Sun in Uncasville, April 19 & 20, 2010.  Award recipients will receive free registration and lunch on awards day.

For information and an application, contact:

Kathy Leeds, FLAG Scholarship Committee

Wilton Library

Telephone: 1-203-762-3950

kcleeds@wiltonlibrary.org

FLAG libraries are: Cyrenius Booth Library, Danbury Library, Darien Library, Easton Public Library, Edith Wheeler Memorial Library, Fairfield Public Library, The Farmington Libraries, Ferguson Library, Greenwich Library, Guilford Free Library, Mark Twain Public Library, Milford Library, New Canaan Library, Norwalk Public Library, Perrot Memorial Library, Ridgefield Library, Sacred Heart University, Stratford Library, Trumbull Library, Western Connecticut State University, Westport Public Library, and Wilton Library.