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http://www.ala.org/ala/pressreleases2008/march2008/paul08.htm

For Immediate Release,
March 10, 2008
Connie Paul receives ASCLA Leadership and Professional Achievement Award

CHICAGO -Connie Paul, executive director, Central Jersey Regional Library
Cooperative, Freehold (N.J.), is the 2008 co-recipient of the Association of
Specialized and Cooperative Library Agencies (ASCLA) Leadership and
Professional Achievement Award presented by the ASCLA, a division of the
American Library Association (ALA).

The ASCLA Leadership and Professional Achievement Award is a citation
presented to one or more ASCLA members in recognition of leadership and
achievement in the following areas of activity: consulting, multi-type
library cooperation, networking, statewide service and programs and state
library development.

“Connie Paul has been selected for this award to honor her outstanding
leadership and professional achievements in recruitment and training on a
state and national level,” said Kathleen Hegarty, ASCLA awards committee
chair. “On a state level she was responsible for the development of a
Recruitment and Leadership Training Grant which encompassed three elements:
an annual week-long New Jersey Academy of Library Leadership Training for
mid-career librarians; a program in succession planning for librarians
nearing retirement; and a recruitment campaign to attract high school and
college students to the field of librarianship. On a national level, Paul
served as chair of the Recruitment Forum (2005), is an ongoing member of the
ALA Recruitment Assembly and is a founding member of the ALA Emerging
Leaders Task Force.”

“ASCLA has been my home for the past 11 years. In ICAN, I found colleagues
who became mentors and mentors who became friends,” said Connie Paul. “They,
and the outstanding professionals of the New Jersey library community,
demonstrate every day why being a librarian is the best possible career
choice.”

The award will be presented during the ASCLA Awards Ceremony 10:30 a.m. to
noon on June 29, during the ALA Annual Conference in Anaheim (Calif.).

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