WNBA EASTMAN GRANT

Given annually, the WNBA Eastman Grant is a cash grant given to a library association in a state where there is a WNBA chapter. The funds are given to support librarian professional development or training offered by an official library association.
A motion was made and passed at the 2009 WNBA annual meeting that the focus of the WNBA Eastman Grant be changed to allocate one $500 grant annually to support library association professional development in a state in which WNBA has a chapter.

At the annual meeting, the members of the board select a WNBA chapter. A library association in the state of that WNBA chapter will be awarded a $500 grant. The national president will make contact and send a letter that includes: information about WNBA, about the local WNBA chapter(s), about Ann Heidbreder Eastman, and explain that the purpose of the grant is to support professional development or training, not for general operating expenses. A check will be sent within WNBA’s Fiscal Year.

The state library association receiving the grant will be asked to acknowledge WNBA’s sponsorship on any professional development and training presented and send WNBA the program announcement.

All WNBA Chapter’s state library associations must have received the grant at least one time before a state chapter awards the Grant a second time.

WNBA Eastman Grant Recipients

2019	Massachusetts Library Association
2015	District of Columbia Library Association
2014	Tennessee Library Association
2013	Michigan Library Association
2012	California Library Association
2011	California School Library Association
2010	North Carolina School Library Media Association
2007	Hana Kim, Korea Studies Librarian, East Asian Library, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
2006	Linda Moskovics, Manager of Allied Gardens/Benjamin Branch, San Diego Public Library System, San Diego, CA
2005	Andrea Wyman, Ph.D., Assistant Professor/Curriculum Materials Librarian, Edinboro University of Pennsylvania, Edinboro, PA
2004	Frances Yates, Education Librarian, Miami University, Oxford, OH
2003	Kimberly Kowal, Assistant Librarian, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Campus, Minneapolis, MN
2002	Stephanie Spetter, Children’s Librarian and Assistant Branch Manager, Scottsdale Branch Library, Chicago Public Library, Chicago, IL
2001	Debbie Abilock, Technology Library, Nueva School, Hillsborough, CA
2000	Kimmerle Ballentine, Head of Youth Services, Public Library of New London, New London, CT
1999	Angela Leeper, Evaluation Services, North Carolina Department of Public Instruction, Raleigh, NC
1998	Carolyn Gutierrez, Information Systems Librarian, Rogers State University Library, Claremore, OK