Inaugural Peacock Scholarship Awarded

PIALA President Atarino Helieisar has been named the inaugural recepient of the Karen M. Peacock Memorial PIALA Scholarship Award. The new award provides up to $1,000 to a current PIALA member to help fund HLA Conference attendance.

Helieisar, the chief law librarian in Pohnpei, FSM, has been active in the library community in Micronesia. He will give a presentation called "Experiences with HLA: A Personal Story" at the 2011 HLA Conference.