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The Caroline Backlund Professional Development Travel Award

ARLIS/DC-Maryland-Virginia Chapter
2012 Caroline Backlund Professional Development Award

The 2012 award deadline has passed.

Purpose

ARLIS/DC-MD-VA will present a professional development award of $500.00 to a chapter member to attend the 40th Annual ARLIS/NA Conference to be held this year in Toronto, March 29–April 2, 2012.  This award is intended to help members become more involved in ARLIS/NA at the national level.

Eligibility

An award applicant must have been a member of ARLIS/NA for at least one year, and must be a current, dues-paying member of ARLIS/DC-MD-VA and ARLIS/NA.  All ARLIS/DC-MD-VA members who meet the above criteria are eligible for the award.  This includes those who have never attended the national conference, and those who will be participating in the conference as speakers, as session/program moderators, as moderators of a section, division or roundtable; or who will be serving on committees.

The winner will submit a brief written report to the chapter’s Award Committee after the conference, and will be welcome to make a report to the chapter membership at a chapter meeting (or through a posting on the chapter web site).

Deadline & process

Applying is quick and easy. Each applicant for the award should submit

  1. a letter of 250–500 words describing his or her specific role in the conference (if  applicable), the benefits anticipated from conference attendance, and a description of all travel funding expected from the applicant’s institution or other sources;
  2. a current résumé or CV, not to exceed two pages.

Please submit applications for the 2012 Caroline Backlund Professional Development Award to the Committee Chair, Sally Sims Stokes, at stokessally@yahoo.com

To help ensure receipt, please also cc sallystokes@comcast.net

Time-stamp deadline for applications is 11:59 p.m. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 2012.

Good luck to all applicants!

Past Recipients:

  • 2011 Emily Hunter, MLS student, University of Maryland
  • 2010 Kristina Keogh, Reference Librarian for the Arts, Virginia Commonwealth University
  • 2009 Stephanie Moye, Serials Librarian, Smithsonian Institution Libraries, American Art/Portrait Gallery Branch Library
  • 2008 Rebecca Cooper, Manager of Reader Services, Society of the Cincinnati, Washington D.C.
  • 2007 Anne H. Simmons, Assistant Librarian, Library and Research Center, National Museum of Women in the Arts
  • 2006 Kathy Woodrell, Reference Specialist, Decorative Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences Division, Library of Congress
  • 2005 Lucie Stylianopoulos, Information Services Librarian, Fiske Kimball Fine Arts Library, University of Virginia
  • 2004 Phyllis Graham, Librarian, American School of Classical Studies in Athens, Greece
  • 2003 Heather Ball, Art and Architecture Librarian, Art and Architecute Library, Virginia Tech