El Paso Area Libraries Consortium

Working with its partners, the El Paso Area Libraries Consortium (EPAL), representing 193 public, school, university, and other libraries, will continue the highly successful librarian recruitment GOAL program in the Trans-Pecos border region of Texas and expand into southern New Mexico, offering two programs. The College Bound Program will provide scholarships to at least 45 students enrolled in a master’s or associate’s program in library and information science. The Librarian in Training Program will provide scholarship and non-scholarship programs to at least 130 youths and adults as they gain hands-on experience while volunteering in a library.