World Book Award

Provides an annual grant for continuing education in school or children’s librarianship. Applicants must be national CLA members. Recipients are chosen by the CLA Scholarship Committee and announced at the Association’s annual convention. Each applicant must submit to the CLA Scholarship Committee a completed application describing the proposed program of study (attendance at special workshops, institutes or seminars; summer sessions at institutions of higher learning; sabbaticals), including a statement of expenses (tuition, room and board, travel) relative to the applicant’s program of study. The grant will not be given for a library science degree.