2009 Frost-Gershenfeld Travel Award return to SLA-UW home

A student enrolled in the Masters of Library and Information Science (MLIS) program at the University of Washington Information School will receive an award of $1,200 to help cover expenses at the 2009 Special Libraries Association (SLA) Annual Conference in Washington, D.C. June 14-17. (If you are graduating, Convocation is June 11th and Commencement is June 13th).

This is the Centennial year celebration for SLA. The opening keynote speaker is former Secretary of State General Colin Powell (Ret); PBS correspondent Judy Woodruff will moderate a panel at the closing session. See http://www.sla.org/content/Events/conference/ac2009/index.cfm for more information on the conference.

To Apply:

Interested students should submit a one-page statement describing interest in and anticipated value from attending the national conference of the Special Libraries Association. (There are no specific requirements as to margins, font, spacing, or word count for the one page, but applicants are urged to state their case succinctly.)

The recipient of the award will submit a short report on the conference experience for publication on the SLA-UW web site by October 1, 2009. (Read the report from the 2007 award recipient Tim King for his impressions of the 2007 conference in Denver. In case you are wondering last year, smaller conference registration awards were distributed for the conference in Seattle in 2008, and no reports were required.)

Students who have received other awards or funding for the 2009 SLA conference are not eligible for this award.

Application statements are due by Friday, March 13th at 5:00 PM.

Statements should be submitted via email to Nancy Gershenfeld. The award will be chosen by a panel consisting of Nancy Gershenfeld, a member of the local professional SLA chapter and one or more Information School students.

The winner will be notified by email on Monday, March 30th.

This award is underwritten by Nancy Gershenfeld in memory of Roxanna Frost, the late Director of the Microsoft Corporate Library and an alumna of the University of Washington MLIS program who passionately supported special libraries and the leadership potential in each member of the organization.