Miriam Braverman Award
Posted: March 19, 2008 Filed under: Opportunities: Calls for Papers, Opportunities: Grants Comments OffPLG Award
The Progressive Librarians Guild
(PLG) announces the Miriam Braverman Award, intended to foster an awareness of
the social responsibility aspects of librarianship and to encourage
professional involvement by students.
The award is given annually for the
best student essay on some aspect of the social responsibilities of librarians,
libraries or librarianship. The winning entrant has his/her essay published in
Progressive Librarian and is awarded a $300 stipend toward attending the
American Library Association annual meeting, and is honored with a certificate
at the annual PLG dinner at ALA.
This year’s submission deadline is
April 15, 2008 – interested students can visit http://libr.org/plg/Braverman-08-flyer.pdf
for information on the award and application process, or http://libr.org/PLG for more information on the
Progressive Librarians Guild.
Paul Evan Peters Fellowship
Posted: March 19, 2008 Filed under: Opportunities: Fellowships Comments OffCNI Fellowship
The Coalition for Networked
Information is offering a fellowship for graduate study in Information Science,
Librarianship or a closely related field – the Paul Evan Peters Memorial
Fellowship, in the amount of $5,000 per year for two consecutive years, will be
awarded in June of this year.
Qualified graduate students in the
fields listed above, who demonstrate a commitment to a broad range of personal,
intellectual and professional qualities consistent with those of CNI’s founding
director, Paul Evan Peters, are encouraged to apply – more information on the
fellowship and applications can be found at http://www.cni.org/pepfellowship -
this year’s application deadline is April 14, 2008.
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