ELIGIBILITY

- Applicants must be currently enrolled in an accredited graduate level
library or information science program during the 2001/02 academic school year
and be interested in a career in business librarianship.

- The 2002 Los Angeles conference must be the first SLA conference attended.

-Applicants should be members of SLA Business & Finance
Division by March 1, 2002 to be eligible. Membership in other divisions
will not replace membership in the B&F Division. Be sure to provide enough time
for SLA to process your membership and inform them that you need to be a member of B&F
by March 1. Students can access an SLA application form at: http://www.sla.org/PDFs/formmember.pdf
and mail it to the address indicated on that form.

-The recipient may not accept a travel award for the 2002 conference
from any other SLA Division or Chapter.

APPLICATION PROCEDURES

- Prepare a written statement*, in English, of approximately 500 words on any
one of the following three essay topics:

1. What is the biggest challenge facing the profession?
2. What skills must the new information professional possess?
3. What do you hope to gain from the conference?

Note: All essays must incorporate the conference theme. Essays on topic #3 must
demonstrate the anticipated benefits of conference attendance to you and should
not list what you will do at the conference.

*If your essay is available on a public web server, you may submit a URL
in lieu of a paper document.

- Include a letter of recommendation from either a faculty advisor or the
SLA Student Group Faculty Advisors.

- Include a resume.

- Submit the above documents, along with your address, telephone number,
email address (if applicable), postmarked no later than March 1, 2002 to:

Esther Gil
University of Denver
Penrose Library
2150 E. Evans Ave.
Denver, CO 80208-2007
303-871-3412 FAX: 303-871-2290
egil@du.edu

POST AWARD REQUIREMENTS

- Recipients will write a brief article (approx. 500 words) in the Fall 2002 issue of
the Bulletin on their conference experience.

- Recipients will agree to serve on one of the B&F Committees or Roundtables, such
as the B&F Mentoring Committee or the College & University Business Libraries
Roundtable during 2002/03.

NOTIFICATION

- All applicants will receive notification of award status by early April
2002. The checks will be presented to the award winners at the Division's
Annual Business Meeting on June 11, 2002 in Los Angeles.

- Winners MUST attend the B&F Division's Annual Business meeting on June 11, 2002, in Los Angeles to receive their checks.

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