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CHICAGO — The 91´«Ã½ (91´«Ã½) and EBSCO are partnering to offer seven conference sponsorships for librarians to attend the 2015 Annual Conference. The meeting takes place June 25 – June 30, 2015, and offers an opportunity for continuing education, meetings and interaction with colleagues.

Each EBSCO scholarship will be in the amount of $1,000. The scholarship money is to be used for conference registration, travel and expenses.

Deadline for entry is Dec. 1, 2014; scholarship recipients will be notified no later than March 16, 2015. To apply, candidates must complete the criteria and submit an essay that addresses the following topic: “How will attending this 91´«Ã½ Conference contributes to my professional development"? Essays and applications will be judged by a jury designated by 91´«Ã½.

About EBSCO

EBSCO is the leading provider of resources for libraries including EBSCONET®, EBSCO’s total e-resource management system, and EBSCOhost^®, the world's premier for-fee online research service, including full-text databases, subject indexes, point-of-care medical reference, historical digital archives and e-books. EBSCO provides more than 375 research databases and more than 380,000 e-books plus subscription management services for 355,000 e-journals and e-journal packages. Through a library of tens of thousands of full-text journals and magazines from renowned publishers, EBSCO serves the content needs of all researchers (Academic, Medical, K-12, Public Library, Corporate, Government, etc.). EBSCO is also the provider of EBSCO Discovery Service^™ (EDS), which provides each institution with a fast, single search box for its entire collection, offering deeper indexing and more full-text searching of journals and magazines than any other discovery service. For more information, visit the EBSCO Web site at: . EBSCO is a division of EBSCO Industries Inc., one of the largest privately held companies in the United States.

For more information, please contact:

Cheryl Malden

Program Officer

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312-280-3247

cmalden@ala.org