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For more than three decades, TALL Texans Leadership Development Institute (TALL Texans) has helped prepare librarians to lead with vision, innovation, and service in their institutions, communities, and the profession.
The TALL Texans program will be held in person from November 19-21 at The Bevy Hotel in Boerne, Texas. Thank you to everyone who applied to the TALL Texans Leadership Development Institute.
Many of TLA’s districts, divisions, and round tables budget to help fund their members’ participation in TALL Texans. Unit chairs may reach out in August if they have budgeted TALL Texans stipends to offset the registration fee. If a TALL participant requires financial assistance and their units do not have funds for that purpose, TLA has limited funds available from the June Kahler Berry Endowment Fund. Stipend funding is only applicable to the registration fee, not travel expenses. The registration fee covers curriculum, lodging, and breakfast and lunch each day. Travel and dinner expenses are not covered in the fee.
While the use of AI tools to assist in crafting your application responses is not prohibited, the selection committee strongly encourages applicants to rely on their own words and perspectives. Authenticity and a genuine personal voice are highly valued in the application process, as they allow the committee to better understand your unique experiences and potential.
Hear from leaders from the TALL Texans Selection Committee and the Library Leadership Round Table as they discuss updates to the TALL Texans application process and the benefits of the TALL Texans Leadership Institute.
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Check out our podcast episode, TALL Texans and What It Can Do For You.
In the podcast, you’ll hear from a panel of TALL Texans alumni about how to successfully apply, find scholarships to pay your fee and how it benefited their careers.
Brandi Dawson, past-chair of the TALL Texans Round Table, hosts this podcast episode, which covers applying, attending, and what happens after the week of learning. Guests on the panel are Heather Hornor, Library & Information Tech Specialist at Richardson Independent School District; Dawn Wilbert, Youth Services Manager at Decatur Public Library; Lamoya Burks, Head Librarian at Texarkana College and Valerie Prilop, Senior Librarian at MD Anderson Cancer Center.
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TLA is pleased to announce the 2026 class of the TALL Texans Leadership Development Institute.
On a recent episode of Libraries Transform Texas, host Michelia Mason, head librarian at Southwest Research Institute, spoke with Kristi Park, executive director of the Texas Digital Library, about TDL’s 20-year journey.
