Florida State University SLIS Alumna, Professor Melissa Johnston, was recently awarded the Ken Haycock Leadership Development Grant from the International Association of School Librarianship (IASL). The $1,000 grant is awarded to first time attendees of the IASL annual conference, which will be held in Bali in August 2013.

The purpose of this grant is to assist leaders to share their needs and aspirations, to learn from other conference participants, to develop contacts to further their work and to identify strategies that can be used in their home country.  The award is funded through the generosity of IASL members and friends.

Dr Johnston earned her Ph.D. from FSU in 2011.  Her dissertation was on “School Librarians as Technology Integration Leaders: Enablers and Barriers to Leadership Enactment” and her committee chair was Dr. Nancy Everhart.  While at Florida State, Melissa served as a Research Assistant with the “Partnership Advancing Library Media (PALM) Center.”