Prince receives 2022 Bechtel Fellowship

Joe Prince, Curriculum & Outreach Educator for the University Libraries has been awarded the 2022 Louise Seaman Bechtel Fellowship. During his fellowship, Joe will spend time at the Baldwin Library researching how grief and loss have been presented to children in literature. The focus will be in books published between 1850 and 1950. Impressing the committee with his plan to incorporate Social Emotional Learning frameworks into his research and further inform curriculum going forward, Joe will present his findings at the 2023 AASL Conference in San Diego and the 2024 ALSC Institute. 

The Bechtel Fellowship is designed to allow qualified children’s librarians to spend up to four weeks reading and studying at the Baldwin Library of Historical Children’s Literature, a part of the George A. Smathers Libraries at the University of Florida, Gainesville. The Baldwin Library contains a special collection of 120,000 volumes of children’s literature published mostly before 1950. The fellowship is endowed in memory of Louise Seaman Bechtel and Ruth M. Baldwin and provides a stipend of up to $7,500.

Read the full press release from Association of Library Services to Children.