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Awards for MLIS Students

Why should you apply? Not only can you ease your tuition burden, but you can travel to professional conferences at no cost to you, have your work published, and enhance your resume! Below is a mere sampling of opportunities available. Check professional websites, watch lissa_l announcements, and bulletin boards. Don't forget to look at the ALA publication, Financial Assistance, in the Alexander Reference collection, Z668.A575, or go to Awards & Grants on ALA's website. Often awards go begging, so go for it!

• Henry Voos Student Paper Award Small cash award plus publication, offered by the New Jersey Chapter of ASIS (Henry Voos was on the LIS faculty until his death in 1986[?]). Topics should address issues in special library collections, information science, systems analysis, user studies, or other related areas. Fall deadline is mid-December, spring deadline is mid-May.
• ARLIS/NA Gerd Muehsam Award is given annually for the most outstanding paper on art or visual resource librarianship: cash, travel costs, ARLIS membership, publication. Entry deadline is usually December 1, but check the site.
• BIOSIS and Chemical Abstracts Awards administered by the ASIS/Special Interest Group/Biological and Chemical Information Systems, defray expenses of attending an annual ASIS meeting. Students must have a demonstrated interest in biology or chemistry. Watch for announcements.
• The New York Black Librarians Caucus offers the Donna Hoke Scholarship for 2004. The group offers two $1000 scholarships for library students of African descent. Applicants must be residents of New York State. Application deadline is July 31, 2004. Contact New York Black Librarians Caucus, Donna Hoke Scholarship, c/o Prof. Madeline Ford, 1082 Prospect Place, Brooklyn NY 11213, 718-960-7761 or mford@lehman.cuny.edu.
• Dow Jones News/Retrieval Professional Researchers Essay Contest -- cash award; must be SLA member; February deadline.
• SLA Information Technology, Business, and Pharmaceutical Division Student Awards -- pay for conference travel, etc. Check http://wwww.sla.org as well as the RUSLA bulletin board in the Student Lounge
• NJLLA Grant -- to help pay for attending annual American Association of Law Libraries conference. You must be a member of NJLLA and write a brief essay. Deadline is usually April 1.
• Baker & Taylor/NMRT Grassroots Grant -- pays for first-time NJLA annual conference attendance. Application deadline is usually March 1.
• NASIG (North American Serials Interest Group) -- pays for conference and membership. Form available by Nov. 15; http://nasig.org.
• Pratt-Severn Best Student Research Award in Information Science -- $500, in association with ASIST. Information from http://www.asis.org.
• ALA Awards -- there are quite a few that students can try for; check the ALA Handbook (see Sources) and/or http://www.ala.org/ (click on Awards and Scholarships).
• Society of American Archivists -- offers an annual award for best student paper. See http://www.archivists.org.
• Rovelstad Scholarship in International Librarianship, sponsored by the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR), allows a student to attend the World Library and Information Congress of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA).
  

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