Atlas Systems sponsors the RUSA STARS Mentoring Award
Virginia Beach, VA — Atlas Systems is sponsoring the Reference and User Services Association (RUSA) Sharing and Transforming Access to Resources (STARS) Mentoring Award in 2024.
Sponsored by Atlas Systems, the Sharing and Transforming Access to Resources Section (STARS) Mentoring Award is selected by RUSA a division of the American Library Association. The award offers a gift of $1,250 to fund travel expenses associated with attending ALA’s annual conference. The recipient will be a library practitioner who is new to the field of interlibrary loan/document delivery or electronic reserves, and who has daily, hands-on involvement in the areas of borrowing, lending, document delivery, electronic reserves, material delivery, or resource sharing.
This award is intended for a person who has been in the profession for less than two years, or an individual who is newly employed in interlibrary loan, resource sharing or electronic reserves position and has little or no experience in that area. M.L.S. or ALA membership is not required for this award. Preference will be given to those with greatest demonstrated need for the purposes of professional development, networking, education, and service to their local community. The STARS Education and Training Committee will assign a mentor to the recipient for the conference to help them navigate through the conference experience. The recipient is expected to participate in STARS events throughout the conference.
Nominations for the STARS Mentoring Award is currently open at https://www.ala.org/rusa/stars-mentoring-award.
About Atlas Systems, Inc
Atlas is recognized by the ArchivesSpace community as a Registered Services Provider for implementation, hosting, support and data migration services. Information about the services Atlas provides for ArchivesSpace is available at https://www.atlas-sys.com/archivesspace.
About Ares
The Ares system automates library reserve services, includes integrated copyright management services, provides around-the-clock access for students to their reserves collections, and saves time for faculty members and library staff.
Information about Ares can be found at https://www.atlas-sys.com/ares
About ILLiad
The ILLiad Resource Sharing Management software saves you time by managing all your library’s borrowing, lending, and document delivery in one place. ILLiad was developed by Atlas Systems and is now distributed exclusively by OCLC.
Information on Atlas Systems support for ILLiad institutions can be found at https://www.atlas-sys.com/concierge-services. To request a quote for ILLiad from OCLC, please visit https://www.oclc.org/content/forms/worldwide/en/illiad-quote.html.