[MNASIS-L] Minnesota Chapter Student Scholarships for 2007 ASIS&T Annual Meeting

[Janet Arth]

May 30 application deadline approaching ...

   Calling All Minnesota Chapter Student Members (and potential 
student members)

The Minnesota Chapter of the American Society of Information Science 
& Technology will provide up to three scholarships to student members 
of the Minnesota Chapter to cover a portion of the cost to attend the 
ASIS&T Annual Meeting in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, October 18-25, 
2007.  Given the midwest location of the conference, and thus lower 
travel costs, we feel we are able to encourage participation and 
attendance by at least a couple of student members.

AWARD:
For the winners the Minnesota Chapter will:
1) pay the student registration fee for full conference attendance 
(which was $180 in 2006)
2) give the student $400 towards the cost of attending the conference

ELIGIBILITY:
   Student chapter members of the Minnesota Chapter of the American 
Society for Information Science & Technology at the time of 
application and the time of the Annual Meeting meeting.

TO ENTER:
1) Compose a brief essay (not to exceed 500 words) that addresses the 
following:
   What do you see as the major themes of interest in your student 
community?  What ideas do you have about how the Minnesota Chapter 
can entice and engage local LIS/IS students to join and participate 
in ASIS&T activities, local and national?  Local LIS/IS students 
include those at St. Kate's and in the various distant programs 
around the country.

2) Provide the following information:
   Name, Address, email, college of enrollment, ASIS&T member number
   Title of paper/poster/panel at the Annual Meeting, if applicable

AWARD CRITERIA:
1) Evaluation of the brief essay
2) Presentation of a paper or poster, or participation in a panel at 
the Annual Meeting.

Priority will be given to those who are presenting and who provide a 
"winning" essay, however, one does not have to present in order to be 
eligible to win.

DEADLINE FOR APPLICATION:
May 30, 2007

WINNERS ANNOUNCED:
June 29, 2007

A chapter member will obtain conference registration information from 
the winners by September 1 (before the early registration period 
ends) and will summit the registration with payment for the winners 
for the full conference at the student member rate.  Winners' $400 
cash awards will be given at a Minnesota gathering at the ASIS&T 
Annual Meeting in Milwaukee.

The 2007 Annual Meeting, "Joining Research and Practice: Social 
Computing and Information Science" takes place October 18-25, 2007 in 
Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Send applications and inquiries to:
  Janet Arth
  University of Minnesota Libraries
  499 Wilson Library
  309-19th Avenue South
  Minneapolis, MN 55455
  arth at umn.edu
  612/624-9860

I look forward to hearing from you,
Janet Arth
Minnesota Chapter Award Coordinator and out-going Chapter Treasurer

Information about joining ASIS&T is here:
http://www.asis.org/Join/index.html
http://www.asis.org/studentmember.html
Janet M. Arth
Systems Librarian/Library Enterprise Operations (LEO)
University Libraries
569 O. Meredith Wilson Library (office location)
499 O. Meredith Wilson Library (mailing address)
309-19th Avenue South
University of Minnesota         phone:  612/624-9860
Minneapolis, MN  55455          email:  arth at umn.edu