LIS Scholarship Opportunities

Mid-Atlantic Chapter of the Medical Library Association Scholar Award 2012

The Membership and Recruitment Committee of the Mid-Atlantic Chapter (MAC) of the Medical Library Association invites new librarians to apply for a conference scholarship to attend the 2012 MAC Annual Meeting.

This year’s meeting will be part of the MLA Quad Chapter Meeting held at the Tremont Plaza Hotel in Baltimore, MD, October 13-16.

Award

One scholarship will be awarded. The selected recipient will receive complimentary conference registration, which includes most meals, lodging at the conference hotel, and a one-year MAC/MLA membership.

Eligibility Criteria:

Scholarship applicants must be:

• A MAC member with 5 or less years of post-MLS experience

• A first-time attendee at a the MAC/MLA Annual meeting

• Currently employed in a hospital or academic medical center library in the MAC/MLA region: District of Columbia, Maryland, North Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia, and Western Pennsylvania

• Willing to submit a one-page report detailing their experience and impression of the meeting to appear in MAC Messages Blog.

• Committed to attend ENTIRE meeting from October 13-16, 2012.

Submission Guidelines:

To be considered for this award, you must:

• Obtain a letter of recommendation from your supervisor or library director

• Submit an essay, NO MORE THAN 500 WORDS, describing your interest in participating in the 2012 Conference Scholar Program, your interest in health sciences librarianship, and how attending the MAC/MLA meeting will contribute to your professional development.

• Submit a current resume and cover letter.

Deadline for Submission

Applicants should email their completed applications to the MAC Conference Scholars Program at macscholars@gmail.com by Friday, August 24, 2012.

All scholarship applicants will be notified via e-mail by Friday, August 31, 2012.

Note: The selection committee requests that applicants not register for the MAC Annual Meeting until notified of their status to avoid the need for refunds.

Please contact Ryan Harris, MAC Membership and Recruitment Committee Chair, if you have any further questions, rharris@hshsl.umaryland.edu, 410-706-1315

(Source: macmla.wordpress.com)

Society for Information Science Fellowship Awards for 2012

SIS Fellowship Awards for the year 2012
http://sis.org.in/fellowship.html
 
https://sites.google.com/site/nitsis2012/home 
http://sis2012conference.blogspot.in/ 
 
Nominations Invited for SIS Fellowship and for Young Information Scientist Awards for the year 2012. The Society for Information Science (SIS) awards SIS Fellowship every year to honor and recognize outstanding contributions in the area of information science and technology, and Young Information Scientist Award (instituted in 1989 in the memory of Late Shri A.S. Raizada, eminent information scientist and founder Secretary of SIS).
 
Nominations are hereby invited for the SIS Fellowship and the Young Information Scientist AWARDS for the year 2012. Nominations can be made by the Professors, Heads of the Departments, Institutional Heads, Heads of Libraries, SIS Fellows, and Members of SIS.
 
 Nominations must be sent to the Secretary SIS by 15 September 2012, along with complete biodata of the nominee, including his/her contributions to the field. Kindly note that self-nominations or nominations without biodata will not be considered. In the case of Young Information Scientist Award, the age of the nominee should not be more than 35 years as on 15 September, 2012.
 
All nominations should reach the Secretary SIS, (at the following address) by 15 September 2012, after which no nomination will be considered.
 
N.K. Wadhwa,
Secretary, Society for Information Science, (SIS)
C/O The Knowledge Resource Centre,
CSIR- National Physical Laboratory,
Dr. K.S. Krishanan Marg,
New Delhi-110012
(Ph: 09350090040)
http://sis.org.in/mailers/mailer2/mailer.html  

SLA LMD 2012 Karen J. Switt Leadership Award

Georgia Library Association Scholarships 2012

The Georgia Library Association awards two scholarships annually to students completing a master’s degree in library science. The Hubbard Scholarship, a $3,000 award, is intended to recruit excellent candidates for librarianship and defray some of the costs of their education. The Beard Scholarship, in the amount of $1,000, is for applicants who show strong potential for leadership in the library profession. Recipients of both awards must agree to work for at least one year in Georgia following graduation but need not be residents of Georgia to apply.

The deadline to apply for the 2012 scholarships is May 21.

See the Georgia Library Association website for details and for the online application form:
http://gla.georgialibraries.org/scholarship.htm

Questions and application materials may be directed to:
Kimberly Boyd
GLA Scholarship Committee Vice-Chair
c/o Georgia Perimeter College Clarkston Campus JCLRC
555 North Indian Creek Drive
Clarkston, GA 30021
Kimberly.Boyd@gpc.edu

SLA Business & Finance Division offers 3 awards

The SLA Business & Finance Division is recognizing members of the division who have made outstanding contributions by offering the following awards: 

·         Outstanding Achievement in Business Librarianship, including a gift of $1,000.

·         Distinguished Member Award, including a gift of $1,000.

·         Distinguished Leadership & Service Award, including a gift of $500 to the individual and a $500 contribution to the organization that the winner supports.

Deadline for these three awards is March 19, 2012. For more information about them, go to the following URL: http://bf.sla.org/wp-content/uploads/2012-recognition-awards-application.doc

·         Impact Award – debuting in 2011, this award includes a $2,000 stipend to help the recipient cover expenses at the SLA Annual Conference in Chicago IL, July 15-18, 2012.  Sponsored by Wolper Information Services.

Deadline for this award is March 12, 2012. For more information about it, go to the following URL:http://bf.sla.org/wp-content/uploads/2012-impact-award-application.doc

Submit nominations for these awards to:

Terri Brooks, SLA Business & Finance Division Awards Chair

terriannbrooks@aol.com

Archival Education & Research Institute (AERI) Scholarships for Doctoral Students & Faculty

Archival Education and Research Institute (AERI) 2012

We are now accepting applications from doctoral students and faculty engaged in Archival Studies research, broadly conceived, to attend the fourth annual AERI, which will be hosted on the University of California at Los Angeles campus from July 9-13, 2012.

Funded by two four-year grants from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, annual week-long Archival Education and Research Institutes (AERI) are being hosted by partner institutions. Past institutes were held at UCLA in 2009, University of Michigan Ann Arbor in 2010, and Simmons College  in 2011. Future hosts for the Institute will be UCLA in 2012, University of Texas at Austin in 2013, University of Pittsburgh in 2014, and University of North Carolina in 2015.  The Institutes are designed to strengthen education and research and support academic cohort-building and mentoring. Institutes are open to all academic faculty working and doctoral students working in Archival Studies, both nationally and internationally.

A second component is the encouragement of a larger and more diverse cohort of doctoral students in Archival Studies.  The Emerging Archival Scholars Program (2011-2015) provides up to six scholarships to attend AERI 2012 as well as additional mentoring and research opportunities for minority students at the undergraduate and graduate levels who are considering a doctoral degree in Archival Studies.  The Archival Education and Research (AER) Doctoral Fellows (now closed) comprise two cohorts (2009 and 2010) of doctoral students who have been awarded 4-year fellowships to undertake a doctoral program focusing on Archival Studies at one of the eight participating colleges or universities through competitive 4-year Fellowships.

The goal of AERI is to advance the field of Archival Studies in the following ways:
1. Create a dynamic community of researchers, teachers, and students to help mentor doctoral students and faculty in areas such as thesis writing, grant writing, publishing, and career development.
2. Advance curriculum development in Archival Studies.
3. Further current research development through presentations, posters, and workshop activities.
4. Foster interest in future collaborations both nationally and internationally.

AERI 2012 looks forward to a dynamic conference that brings together national and international scholars engaged in Archival Studies, broadly conceived. This year’s plenaries will generate discussion on Grand Challenges in the archival field, Technology and Archives, AER Doctoral Fellows research agendas, Archival Literature Analysis, and lastly, a reflection on what AERI has accomplished these past three years to guide our community into the future. There will be a Digital Curation pre-conference held at UCLA on July 8, 2012.

Applications to present a research paper and poster at AERI 2012 are now being accepted. Download our application form at http://aeri.gseis.ucla.edu/aeri.htm.  Deadline to apply is March 1, 2012.

Visit our website at http://aeri.gseis.ucla.edu for more information.  To stay posted on AERI 2012’s development, visit our local arrangements website athttp://aeri2012.wordpress.com.

Best wishes,
Ellen-Rae Cachola
AERI Project Manager
Center for Information as Evidence
University of California, Los Angeles
http://aeri.gseis.ucla.edu
http://cie.gseis.ucla.edu
aeri@gseis.ucla.edu

RUSA/MARS Achievement Recognition Certificate a.k.a. My Favorite Martian Award 2012

MARS Achievement Recognition Certificate also known as My Favorite Martian Award 

Do you know someone who always does more than expected for MARS? Someone who is willing to take on the challenge to complete a project or produce a successful program? What about someone who is an indispensable member of your committee or someone who has served as your mentor? If so, please consider nominating them for the MARS Achievement Recognition Certificate, also known as the My Favorite Martian Award.

The MARS Achievement Recognition Certificate is given annually to recognize excellence in service to MARS. This award, presented at the annual MARS Chair’s Program, is given to an individual who is a current member of MARS, and has been an active member for the past two years.

The recipient must have made either (1) sustained contributions toward attaining the goals of MARS, or (2) a single, significant contribution that has resulted in a positive impact upon the work of the section.

To nominate someone, please send the candidate’s name, contact information, and brief statement of why you think they should receive the award to Shannon Jones at sdjones@vcu.edu  by Tuesday, January 31, 2012.  

Ms. Shannon D. Jones, MLS, MIS, AHIP
Associate Director, Research & Education 
Tompkins-McCaw Library for the Health Sciences, VCU Libraries
509 N. 12th Street, PO Box 980582
Richmond, VA 23298-0582
Phone: 804-828-0626
Fax: 804-828-6089
email: sdjones@vcu.edu

ASIS&T History Fund Best Paper Award 2012

   This award will be for a maximum of $500 and will be awarded for the
best paper submitted by May 1, 2012. All topics relevant to the history
of information science and technology will be considered. The paper
should not have been previously published or submitted to a journal. The
paper should not exceed 30 pages double-spaced, including
notes/references, using APA style manual.

The ASIS&T History Advisory Board will review all submissions and decide if an award is to be made by June 1, 2012. If an award is made the winner will be expected to present the paper at the 2012 ASIS&T Annual Meeting pre-conference and give first rights of refusal for publication to the Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology.

Submit papers
to http://www.softconf.com/asist/History_Fund/ (choose the “Research
Award” category) by May 1, 2012.

The ASIS&T History Fund was established by the ASIS&T Board of Directors
in June, 2000 for the purposes of supporting and encouraging research
and publication in the history of information science and technology.
The Fund is supported by donations (including book royalties) from
ASIS&T members and others with interest in the history of information
science and technology. The Fund Advisory Board encourages further
donations from anyone interested in supporting historical study of
information science and technology.

Members of the ASIS&T History Fund Advisory Board for 2012 are:
Kathryn La Barre, Chair
Sarah Buchanan, Chair-Elect
Julian Warner, Past Chair
Michael Buckland
Samantha Hastings

For further information on submitting a proposal for the grant award or
the best paper award for 2012 please contact Lai Ma at lama@indiana.edu.

ASIS&T History Fund Research Award 2012

   This award will be for a maximum of $1,000 and will be awarded for
the best research support proposal submitted by May 1, 2012. All topics
relevant to the history of information science and technology may be
proposed. The proposal should state: the central topic or question to be
researched, qualifications of the researcher (brief vita should be
included), a budget, and how the funds will be expended. All funds must
be expended by June 30, 2013.

Submit proposal to
http://www.softconf.com/asist/History_Fund/ 

(choose the “Research Award” category)

by May 1, 2012. If an award is made for 2012, the winner will
be notified by June 1, 2012.

The ASIS&T History Fund was established by the ASIS&T Board of Directors
in June, 2000 for the purposes of supporting and encouraging research
and publication in the history of information science and technology.
The Fund is supported by donations (including book royalties) from
ASIS&T members and others with interest in the history of information
science and technology. The Fund Advisory Board encourages further
donations from anyone interested in supporting historical study of
information science and technology.

Members of the ASIS&T History Fund Advisory Board for 2012 are:
Kathryn La Barre, Chair
Sarah Buchanan, Chair-Elect
Julian Warner, Past Chair
Michael Buckland
Samantha Hastings

For further information on submitting a proposal for the grant award or
the best paper award for 2012 please contact Lai Ma at lama@indiana.edu.

Beta Phi Mu Scholarships 2012

WHO.  These scholarships are available for students (both generally and those pursuing a career in school librarianship), current Beta Phi Mu members seeking continuing professional education, anyone (student and non-student) interested in conducting research in a foreign country, and current Library Science doctoral students.

 

WHAT.  Beta Phi Mu Scholarships.  These range in amount from $1,500 to $3,000 apiece.

 

WHEN.  Applications due no later than March 15, 2012

 

WHERE.  Read more about each available scholarship on the Beta Phi Mu website:   http://www.beta-phi-mu.org/Scholarships/scholarships.php