Three Institutions Share $3000 Alibris Collection Award
Grants fulfill online wishlists from museum, public library, community college library
-- Library Journal, 02/08/2010
- Seventh annual grant
- Application deadline in the fall
- One winner is still replacing books lost in 1987
Online new and used bookseller Alibris has named three winners of the 2010 Alibris Collection Award, sharing a $3000 book grant: North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, Raleigh; the Burlington County Public Library, Westampton, NJ; and Everett Community College, Everett, WA.
To apply for the Collection Award, libraries must create online Alibris wishlists. In this case, the museum sought books to support research regarding reptiles, Burlington asked for titles to "educate and entertain an emerging senior citizen population," and Everett wanted to replace books lost in a 1987 arson fire that devastated the library.
The seven-year list of winners is here. The deadline for the most recent award was December 1, 2009, so the next round will open up next fall.
The jurors included Toni Garvey, director, Phoenix Public Library; Dr. Mark Sandler, director, Center for Library Initiatives at the Committee on Institutional Cooperation; Dr. Lynn Sutton, dean of the library, Wake Forest University; Jack Walsdorf, retired bookseller and book scholar; Dr. Richard Weatherford, co-founder of Alibris; and the members of the Alibris for Libraries Advisory Board.
