Deadline extended to 10/25 —>
Call for Applicants: ACRL/NY 2024 Symposium Scholarships for Students & Librarians
*****Please excuse cross-posting*****
Values in Context: Praxis in the Everyday
In the midst of the recent national and global upheavals, the ACRL/NY 2024 Symposium will explore the core values of library workers and libraries, and examine how those values manifest in the day-to-day work that supports our library communities. ACRL’s strategic plan and ALA’s Core Values of access, equity, intellectual freedom and privacy, public good, and sustainability can inform this conversation. In 2000, the first edition of Michael Gorman’s Our Enduring Values: Librarianship in the 21st Century was published. Later, in 2015, Gorman published a subsequent edition titled Our Enduring Values Revisited: Librarianship in an Ever-Changing World. Across the two editions, Gorman identifies stewardship, service, intellectual freedom, rationalism, literacy & learning, equity of access to recorded knowledge & information, privacy, and democracy as foundational to library work. In this context, we invite you to engage with these values. How do we approach competing/conflicting understandings of libraries and these corresponding values? Is it possible, or desirable, for us to agree at all on a set of common values? If so, what would they be? Are there additional values that we need to consider as we welcome and support our community? How do we apply our values to our daily work?
Produced annually by the Greater New York Metropolitan Chapter of the Association of College and Research Libraries, this year’s event will take place on Friday, December 6th at Fordham University’s Lincoln Center campus in Manhattan and will be livestreamed.
If interested, please note that ACRL/NY offers three scholarship programs listed below. Awardees receive a waiver of registration fees and are awarded a full year of membership in the organization. Breakfast and lunch are included. Please note that scholarship recipients will be responsible for their own travel and lodging expenses.
Student Scholarship – For students currently enrolled in graduate degree programs in library/information science who are considering a career in academic librarianship (3 awardees). To Apply : fill out this student scholarship form
Early Career Librarian Scholarship – For an academic librarian who has been practicing less than 5 years following receipt of a Master’s degree in library/information science (1 awardee). To Apply : fill out this early career librarian scholarship form
The Dr. Barbara Bonous-Smit Scholarship – For an academic librarian who has been in practice at least 5 years following receipt of a Master’s degree in library/information science (1 awardee). To Apply: fill out this Dr. Barbara Bonous-Smit scholarship form
=====
Scholarship recipients are expected to attend the full-day symposium, in person, and produce a short article on their impressions of the day for the ACRL/NY blog (guidelines to be provided).
Strong applications will demonstrate an interest in academic librarianship broadly and clearly articulate the relationship between critical engagement with the values of librarianship and the applicant’s professional goals.
Application submission deadline: Friday, October 25, 2024
Scholarship recipients will be notified on or before: Friday, November 15, 2024.
For further information about the symposium, go to: https://acrlny.org/2024symposium/
We look forward to your submission.
The ACRL/NY 2024 Symposium Committee