BrowZine: Browse Scholarly Journals on your Tablet or Phone

Published: December 7, 2018

BrowZine is a tablet application that lets you browse, read, and monitor thousands of scholarly journals available from the UCLA Library. Download it now. A web version of BrowZine is also now available! Features of BrowZine include: Create a personal bookshelf of favorite journals Be alerted when new issues are published Easily save to Zotero, Mendeley, Dropbox, and…

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Archie Motley Memorial Scholarship for Students of Color

Published: December 6, 2018

MAC is soliciting applications for the 2019 Archie Motley Memorial Scholarship for Students of Color (http://www.midwestarchives.org/motley).The scholarship is designed to provide financial assistance to students of color pursuing graduate education in archival administration and to encourage ethnic diversification of the MAC membership and of the archival profession as a whole. Two $750 scholarships, accompanied by…

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Participate in National Film and Sound Archive of Australia Survey

Published: December 6, 2018
National Film & Sound Archive, Australia

My name is Mona Soleymani and I am the manger, Collections Conservation at the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia. We are currently undertaking a project on naphthalene syndrome and vinegar syndrome on films and I am hoping you may be able to take part in our survey to provide some advice from your…

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IAC- Social Justice Graduate Fellows (SJGF) Program

Published: December 5, 2018

Applications Now Available for the IAC- Social Justice Graduate Fellows (SJGF) Program. DEADLINE: December 18, 2018, 11:59 p.m. The UCLA Institute of American Cultures (IAC), with support from the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research, seeks applicants for the inaugural cohort of the Social Justice Graduate Fellows (SJGF) program. Open to UCLA graduate students with…

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SAA Scholarships

Published: December 5, 2018
SAA UCLA

Society of American Archivists (SAA) Scholarship portals are now open. This is a great thing to work on over winter break, as they require personal essays and evidence of scholarly work, and you can line up your letters of recommendation now. UCLA swept the awards last year (yay!) and it would be great to have…

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Call for Contributions Open for iPRES2019

Published: December 3, 2018

We are pleased to announce that the Call for Contributions for iPRES2019 is now open. iPRES is the premier international conference on the preservation and long term management of digital materials. The 16th International Conference on Digital Preservation will be held on September 16-20, 2019 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. We invite original contributions that describe…

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Dr. Marcia Bates on “Designing Search Interfaces for our Inner Hunter-Gatherer: Getting Serious about Browsing.”

Published: December 3, 2018

This Thursday the 6th we invite you to hear from Dr. Marcia Bates on “Designing Search Interfaces for our Inner Hunter-Gatherer: Getting Serious about Browsing.” Dr. Bates is Professor Emerita in our own Department of Information Studies, where she has also served as Associate Dean and Department Chair. Dr. Bates joins us Thursday to share…

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Call for Applications: 2019 Lucille M. Wert Scholarship – Deadline: February 1, 2019

Published: December 3, 2018
American Chemical Society

Designed to help a person with an interest in the fields of Chemistry and Information to pursue graduate study in Library, Information, or Computer Science, the Scholarship consists of a $1,500 honorarium.  This scholarship is given yearly (to a qualified applicant) by the Division of Chemical Information of the American Chemical Society. The applicant must…

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