SLIS NEWS: Our Doctoral Student wins ALA Diversity Grant!

Great News!
ALA Congnotes from July 14th, 2009 published an article that named the winners of the 2009 Diversity Research Grants and OUR VERY OWN Doctoral Candidate, Clayton Copeland was awarded the FIRST of three grants!! Her study is titled "Library and information center accessibility: The differently-able patron's perspective" and will focus on giving voice to the differently-able patrons and and revealing areas of libraries that, with change, can improve accessibility. Congratulations Clayton!

If you want to find out more about these awards and her study, check out this article from the Office of Diversity:
http://ala.org/ala/newspresscenter/news/pressreleases2009/july2009/researchgrants_ofd.cfm

Always yours,
Dr. Sam