{"id":226,"date":"2016-04-20T11:21:00","date_gmt":"2016-04-20T15:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2016\/04\/20\/want-to-be-a-media-librarian-kino-lorbers-here-to-help\/"},"modified":"2016-04-20T11:21:00","modified_gmt":"2016-04-20T15:21:00","slug":"want-to-be-a-media-librarian-kino-lorbers-here-to-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2016\/04\/20\/want-to-be-a-media-librarian-kino-lorbers-here-to-help\/","title":{"rendered":"Want to be a media librarian? Kino Lorber&#8217;s here to help"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tAllow us to toot the horn of our own profession for a second. If you&#8217;re interested in becoming a librarian who works with film, the American Library Association has a scholarship with your name on it.<\/p>\n<p>ALA has partnered with  classic and art house film distributor Kino Lorber <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ala.org\/news\/press-releases\/2016\/04\/kino-lorber-create-scholarship-future-media-librarians\">to offer an annual $1000 award for a prospective library science Masters degree student<\/a> interested in &#8220;work[ing] professionally as a media librarian in an academic institution.&#8221; The scholarship includes a paid trip to New York City to learn about film distribution at a festival from the Kino Lorber folks \u2013 a great hands-on opportunity that uniquely fits the media librarian sub-profession.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re glad to see Kino Lorber giving back to the library world. Richard Lorber himself shares in anecdote in ALA&#8217;s press release about how librarians helped him find films to use for his teaching. We certainly hope the AU Library&#8217;s collection and librarians have been so helpful, and this scholarship is a little boost to keep those sorts of services going in the future.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Allow us to toot the horn of our own profession for a second. If you&#8217;re interested in becoming a librarian who works with film, the American Library Association has a scholarship with your name on it. ALA has partnered with classic and art house film distributor Kino Lorber to offer an annual $1000 award for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[212],"class_list":["post-226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-links-of-interest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}