Excellence Press Release

["YALSA Office (Linda Waddle)" <lwaddle@ALA.ORG>]

     YALSA Announces Availability of Applications for the
     Excellence in Library Service to Young Adults
     Competition


     The Young Adult Library Services Association will
     select up to fifty exemplary programs/services in all
     types of libraries to include in a second edition of
     EXCELLENCE IN LIBRARY SERVICE TO YOUNG ADULTS.  The top
     five programs will receive stipends of $500 each.
     Forty-five will receive stipends of $100.  This program
     to recognize excellence in library service to teenagers
     was begun by ALA Past President Hardy Franklin in 1993
     and is subsidized by the Margaret A. Edwards Trust.

     All applications must be received in the YALSA office
     no later than October 1, 1996.  The libraries selected
     will be announced at the ALA Midwinter Meeting in
     Washington DC, February 14-20, 1997.

     Applications are available in the YALSA section of the
     ALA Homepage:  http://www.ala.org or from the YALSA
     office, (800)545-2433, extension 4390, or through e-
     mail at yalsa@ala.org.