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2009 Edna Yelland Scholarship Winners
The California Library Association provides three scholarships annually in the memory of Edna Yelland, Executive Secretary of CLA from 1947-63, to students enrolled in ALA accredited graduate programs in library or information science in California. The purpose of these scholarships is to encourage and support ethnic minority students in the attainment of a graduate degree in library or information science and to encourage commitment to the improvement of library services to ethnic minority communities.
This year's winners were announced at the Awards Ceremony during the 111th Annual CLA Conference & Exhibition in Pasadena, CA.
More about this year's Scholarship Winners:
Jeannie Chen is in her second year of the MLIS program at UCLA. She graduated from UC-Berkeley with a B.A. in English Literature. Her recent studies have focused on digital technology and the development of web-based cultural resources in children's services. She recently worked at the National Archives Office of the Presidential Libraries as a Web Developer Intern last summer. Jeannie was awarded the 2008 ALA Spectrum Scholarship, and has been selected as an ALA Emerging Leader for 2010. Currently, she is active on the ALSC Children and Technology Committee, and the APALA Family Literacy Focus Taskforce. She looks forward to translating her education into services and skills that serve today's wide range of information users.
Sondhaya "Sunny" Sritongsook is currently attending San Jose State University and is entering her second year. She is the first Thai in her family to complete college. She graduated from UC- Irvine in 2004 with a B.A. in Anthropology. She has worked for the San Diego County Library as a library technician substitute for over 3 years. She has also worked as a medical library technician for over a year at the McGuire Health Sciences Library. Sondhaya's passion is to serve her community by promoting healthy behaviors through research and literature.
Carlene Chiu is in her second year at San Jose State University. She has worked for the Altadena Library District for two years. She has an interest in information seeking behaviors of unique groups to identify the best marketing/ outreach methods, and provide better services and programs. She is committed to working with multicultural communities and developing services, programs and collections that reflect their needs as well as becoming a role model for Asians to enter librarianship.
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