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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif">Ever have an itch for deepening your knowledge of historic children’s literature?<span style="margin: 0px"> </span><span style="margin: 0px"> </span>Would
you like to do this scholarly reading, researching, and writing in sunny Florida in 2020?<span style="margin: 0px"> <span style="margin: 0px"> </span></span>If this describes you, the time is right to apply for the Louise Seaman Bechtel Fellowship.</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif">The Louise Seaman Bechtel Fellowship provides a grant up to $4,000 to a qualified children’s librarian to spend up to four weeks
reading and studying at the Baldwin Library of Historical Children's Literature of the George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida, Gainesville. The Baldwin Library contains a special collection of 130,000 volumes of children’s literature published
mostly before 1950. The fellowship is endowed in memory of Louise Seaman Bechtel and Ruth M. Baldwin.</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif">The guidelines for the grant and link to apply are found here:<span style="margin: 0px"> </span></span><a href="http://www.ala.org/alsc/awardsgrants/profawards/bechtel" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="margin: 0px"><span style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif">http://www.ala.org/alsc/awardsgrants/profawards/bechtel</span></a><span style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif">.<span style="margin: 0px"> </span><span style="margin: 0px"> A</span>pplicants
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winners have described this experience as “an energizing break” and “a complete professional game changer!”<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
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