Travel Grant

Purpose

The APALA Travel Award will provide $500.00 to support attendance at the American Library Association (ALA) Annual Conference. The Travel Award will fund one APALA member to attend the conference and will be used to help cover registration and travel expenses.

Criteria

  • Applicant must be a current APALA member in good standing.
  • Applicant must be either a student who is enrolled in a master’s or doctoral degree program in library and/or information science at a school accredited by ALA, or a professional possessing a master’s degree or doctoral degree in library and/or information science.
  • Applicant must be a citizen or permanent resident of the United States or Canada.

How to Apply

Complete the APALA Travel Grant online application by April 6, 2012.

Selection Procedures and Timeline

  • The APALA Research and Travel Award Committee will select and notify the recipient by May 1.
  • The Travel Award check will be distributed at the ALA Annual Conference.
  • The recipient will submit a report to the APALA Research & Travel Award Committee after the ALA conference discussing what they gained from attendance and how the Award assisted them. This report will be due by September 1.

Administrative Procedures

  • The APALA Travel Award shall be administered under the By-Laws of APALA.
  • In the event that no applicants satisfy the criteria, no travel award will be given, with the option to grant an additional award the following year.
  • Members of the Scholarships & Grants Committee are ineligible for any of the awards.  If a Scholarships & Grants Committee member would like to apply for an award, they need to step aside from the selection committee for that specific award.  An APALA member who receives any APALA grant/award may not receive another grant/award in the same year.

Contact Information

If you have questions or need additional information, please contact the APALA Research & Travel Award Committee co-chairs, Safi Safiullah at ssafiullah@slcpl.org or Gayatri Singh at gasingh@ucsd.edu.

The selection committee is composed of Shalini Channapatna, Tassanee Chitcharoen, Valeria Molteni, Jina Park, Safi Safiullah , Gayatri Singh, and Michelle Wu.

Past Travel Grant Winners

  • Cynthia Mari Orozco (2011)
  • Lessa Kanani’opua Pelayo-Lozado (2010)
  • Sally Ma (2009)
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