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

[Janet Arth]

... Calling All 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 (a form for this information will be 
available on the chapter website or by request by March 1, 2007):
   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 (Information about the upcoming Annual Meeting program 
deadlines, which come up very quickly, is at the end of this award information)

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.

ANNUAL MEETING PROGRAM INFORMATION:
The call for papers is here:
   http://www.asis.org/Conferences/AM07/am07cfp.html
   The conference theme is:  Joining Research and Practice: Social 
Computing and Information Science

The deadlines are:
   January 21, 2007 - Proposals due for contributed papers, technical 
sessions and panels, and pre-conference sessions
   February 25, 2007 - Proposals due for contributed posters/short papers

Most panel presentations are developed by the ASIS&T Special Interest 
Groups.  If you have some ideas to propose for a SIG panel or panel topic, 
I suggest you contact the chair of that Special Interest Group, that person 
would know what is in the works and how your idea might fit into the SIG's 
program plans.  I have always found the SIG members open to new ideas and 
willing volunteers.  The list of SIGs is here: 
http://www.asis.org/SIG/sigs.html

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