$1200 SPIE Digital Library Student Travel Stipend – 2019 Special Libraries Association Annual Conference in Cleveland, Ohio

By January 28, 2019
Stipend to attend the SLA 2019 Annual Conference, June 14-18, 2019, in Cleveland, Ohio SPIE Digital Library is sponsoring for library school students an award of a $1200 travel stipend toward payment of expenses incurred while attending the 2019 Special Libraries Association Annual Conference in Cleveland, Ohio. This award will be presented at the awards event at the 2019 SLA Annual Conference. Award winners will receive one complementary ticket to the awards event. SPIE Digital Library is the world’s largest collection of optics and photonics applied research. The SPIE Digital Library Student Travel Stipend Award will be given to the qualified student who submits a personal statement of up to 1000 words on how they believe this award will benefit them personally and professionally. Instructions for submission: Submit your application by March 15, 2019. Provide your name, address, telephone number, email address, name of your library school and statement to: Bette Finn at bette.finn@library.gatech.edu Applicants will receive notification on award status by late March. The award check will be presented at the SLA conference. The award recipient’s name will be posted to the Engineering Division’s website. An announcement and introduction of the award recipient will be posted to the Engineering Division website, and will appear as an article in the Sci-Tech News. The award winner will receive a one year SLA student membership to the Engineering Division ($20). The award winner will be required to fulfill one of the two post award requirements:
  • Attend an Engineering Division Board meeting shortly following the annual conference to give a report about your conference experience.
  • Submit an article to the Engineering Division newsletter, SciTech News, within six months of attending the conference covering your conference experience or what you took away from the conference.