[Asis-l] Results of the 18th Annual LACASIST McKinley Student Scholarship Essay Competition

[Bo-Gay T. Salvador]

The Los Angeles Chapter of ASIS&T is pleased to announce that Ann Roll is the first-place winner of the 2009 Margaret McKinley Memorial Student Scholarship Essay Competition. 
  
Ms. Roll is enrolled in the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign’s LEEP Online Distance Program and plans to complete a master’s degree in Library and Information Science in May, 2010. She also holds a Master of Fine Arts degree in Sculpture from Cranbrook Academy of Art and a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Sculpture from Washington University in St. Louis. She is interested in visual information and has special interests in image retrieval and information visualization. Ms. Roll is currently an Acquisitions Librarian at the Getty Research Institute, where she has been employed since 2005. She is a member of ALA and ARLIS/NA and the Southern California ARLIS chapter. 
  
Essays submitted by Margaret A. Driscoll and Donna LaFollette tied for runners-up. Both students receive a one-year membership in ASIS&T. Ms. Driscoll is currently enrolled as an MLIS candidate at San Jose State University and plans to graduate in 2012. She has an AAS in Library Technology from Mesa Community College and a BA degree in English from Ottawa University. She is interested in digitization of course reserves material, copyright and Fair Use, information literacy, reference, Open Access, and scholarly publishing. She is currently the Reserves/eReserves Coordinator at CSU Channel Islands Library. She is a member of LACASIST, ALA, and CLA, and is a past-chair of the ExLibris Southwest User Group. 
  
Ms. LaFollette was enrolled in the LEEP online program at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and earned her MLIS degree in May, 2009. Upon graduation, she received the Library School Alumni Association student award. Her coursework in user interfaces and metadata led her to a less traditional librarian role, as she recently joined the non-profit Statewide California Electronic Library Consortium (SCELC) as their Business Manager. She also holds a bachelor’s degree in Russian Civilization from UCLA, and is a member of the Society for Scholarly Publishing and ALA.  
  
LACASIST congratulates the 2009 Margaret McKinley Memorial Student Scholarship Essay Competition winners! 
  
About the Margaret McKinley Memorial Student Scholarship Essay Competition:
The Los Angeles Chapter of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (LACASIST) offers this annual Student Scholarship Essay Competition for current library and information science graduate students either enrolled at universities within the areas represented by LACASIST or residing in one of the areas represented by LACASIST and attending library and information science distance education programs. This Competition, first established in 1992, and renamed in memory of the late Margaret McKinley in 1993, is intended to encourage students in library and information science programs to consider the benefits of participation in the activities of professional societies. The winner receives reimbursement funding up to US $1,000 for registration, airfare, and hotel expenses to attend ASIS&T’s Annual Meeting and a one-year membership in ASIS&T. Two runners-up receive one-year memberships in ASIS&T.
 
 
Bo-Gay Salvador
LACASIST 2009 McKinley Competition Coordinator


      
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