GSLIS alumna Erin Prentiss (MS ’12) is the recipient of the 2016 Professional Development Grant sponsored by the American Libraries Association (ALA) New Members Round Table (NMRT). This $1,000 award provides funding to assist with airfare, lodging, and conference registration fees for attendance at the ALA Annual Conference and fosters in-person participation in ALA and NMRT professional activities.
Prentiss is a reference and instruction librarian at the Reese Library at Augusta University (Georgia). In addition to her GSLIS degree, she received a bachelor’s degree in sociology/anthropology from Agnes Scott College in 2003 and a Secondary English Education Certification from the University of West Georgia in 2008. Prentiss has received numerous honors since joining the profession, including being selected as a Spectrum Scholar (2010-2012) and a Joint Conference of Librarians of Color Scholar (2012). She currently serves on the Georgia Library Association’s Public Relations Committee and is an assistant book review editor for Georgia Library Quarterly. Her professional interests include diversity in publishing and collections and local history.