ALA Annual Conference Student-to-Staff Program
Posted October 29, 2014
Each year every ALA student chapter is encouraged to nominate one student to participate in the Student-to-Staff Program (S2S), established in 1973, and coordinated by the Chapter Relations Office with support from Conference Services.
Each Annual Conference ALA provides a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for 40 students engaged in ALA Student Chapters both to attend an ALA Annual Conference and to work behind-the-scenes with ALA staff.
The Student-to-Staff Program (S2S) was created so that each of 60 schools affiliated with ALA has an equal and equitable opportunity to nominate one and only one student to fill one of 40 available slots in the program. S2S offers qualifying students in the program the opportunity to attend meetings, programs, and other ALA Conference events in their spare time.
In other words, in exchange for working with an ALA unit for 16 hours, each S2S student receives free registration, housing, and a per diem for meal expenses, and attends programs and other conference events. This summer the Annual Conference is held in San Francisco, CA: June 25-30, 2015.
To qualify for the ALA student-to-staff program:
- Each student must be a student chapter member;
- Each student must be a current ALA member and remain an ALA member through the ALA Annual Conference that he or she is nominated to participate in;
- Each student accepted cannot have previously participated in the program;
- Yes, students are eligible if they graduate in May immediately before the conference.
- ALA supports student members through a wide array of programs and services. ALA Spectrum Scholars receiving funds to attend a Spectrum Leadership Institute through their scholarship are not eligible to participate in the Student-to-Staff program for the Conference in conjunction with the Leadership Institute. Required attendance at the Institute and conference events precludes the work requirements of the Student-to-Staff program. Incoming Spectrum Scholars and alumni are encouraged to apply.
If you would like to be considered please email a letter no longer than two pages (shorter is fine!) addressed to Mary Jordan, SLIS ALA-SC Faculty Advisor. Write about your work to support the aims of ALA-SC at Simmons, your reasons for wanting to attend this conference, and how it will impact your professional work.
The deadline for all email submissions to Mary will be Friday, November 14 by 4:00pm Eastern Time.