ARLIS/DC-Maryland-Virginia Chapter

2007 Caroline Backlund Professional Development Award

Purpose

ARLIS/DC-MD-VA will present a professional development award of $500.00 to a chapter member to attend the 2007 Annual ARLIS/NA Conference in Atlanta. 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; session/program moderators; moderators of a section, division or roundtable; or serving on committees.

The winner will submit a written report to the 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

Each applicant for the award should submit

(1) a letter of 250-500 words describing his or her participation 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.

Please submit applications for the 2007 Caroline Backlund Professional Development Award 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. FEBRUARY 1, 2007.

Good luck to all applicants!