St. Catherine University: SLA

Registration is open for the SLA Annual Conference in Charlotte, North Carolina June 6-9 and current St. Kate MLIS students are invited to apply for the $1,000 Special Libraries Association Student Travel Stipend! To apply, submit a 750-1,000 word essay to Konhe Yoon ( kyoon@stkate.edu ) answering: This year's conference theme is "Drive Forward Charlotte"; how will attending the 2020 conference help you "Drive your career forward"? How are you how involved with or committed to special libraries? How would attending benefit the SLA student group, MN SLA, or the MLIS program? APPLICATION DEADLINE: MARCH 25

This year the Art Librarians Society / North America - Twin Cities Chapter is pleased to offer a $400 travel award for the ARLIS/NA Conference in Salt Lake City, UT, March 26-30, 2019 . The award is intended to enhance the professional development of early, mid, and late career ARLIS/NA members by supporting attendance at the annual conference.  Applications are due on January 18, 2019 See the ARLIS/NA-TC website for more information!

Deadline: January 4, 2019 The 2019 Film Librarians Conference will build on the discussions and dialogues begun in 2017, providing a continuing forum to explore contemporary debates and exchange ideas and strategies amongst librarians, curators, and archivists who maintain and administer paper-based, motion picture-related collections, as well as students enrolled in related graduate programs. Documenting Cinema: Film Librarians Conference 2019 Date: May 15 – 17, 2019 Location: Linwood Dunn Theater , Pickford Center for Motion Picture Study, Hollywood, CA Call for Proposals The conference committee is now welcoming papers and in particular pre-formed panel proposals on the following themes: ·        Workflows and bottlenecks ·        Taxonomies and cataloging issues ·        Preservation of material objects and digital media ·      ...

The 2016 SLA Conference is June 12-14 in Philadelphia, PA. Don't miss your chance to attend for FREE by applying for the SLA Student Group Scholarship (instructions here ).

Apply for a Scholarship to Attend the 2014 SLA Annual Conference in Vancouver, B.C.  The 2014 SLA Conference will be held in Vancouver on June 8 through 10th.   The St. Catherine University's Special Library Association Student Group is offering a $1,500 scholarship for a student to attend the conference. Essays will be judged based on the following criteria: Evidence of involvement in SLA and the St. Kate's student group. How you will use your participation to promote and improve St. Kate's MLIS program. How attending the SLA conference will impact your career and/or  education. Demonstration of commitment to the field of special librarianship. How to Apply: St. Kate's MLIS students are encouraged to apply for this scholarship by submitting an essay of no more than 1,500 words. Essays must be submitted to Assistant Professor Kyunghye Yoon by April 21, 2014. ______________________________________ Essays will be judged by the  SLA M...

Lynn Stang is the awardee of this year's St. Kate's SLA Student Group Conference Scholarship. The scholarship will send Lynn to the SLA 2013 Annual Conference  in San Diego this June. Congratulations Lynn -- and enjoy the conference! 

Apply for a Scholarship to Attend the 2013 SLA Annual Conference in San Diego The 2013 SLA Conference will be held in San Diego on June 9 th through 11 th . The St. Catherine University's Special Library Association Student Group is offering a $1,200 scholarship for a student to attend the conference. Essays will be judged based on the following criteria: Evidence of involvement in SLA and the St. Kate's student group. How attending the SLA conference will impact your career and/or  education. Demonstration of commitment to the field of special librarianship. How to Apply: St. Kate's MLIS students  are encouraged to apply for this scholarship by submitting an essay of no more than 1,500 words. Essays must be submitted by April 15, 2013.  Turn in completed applications to  cckratochvil@stkate.edu . ______________________________________ Essays will be judged by Associate Professor Joyce Yukawa. __________________________________...

This year the student group is able to offer a $1,700 scholarship for a St. Kate's MLIS student to attend the SLA Annual Conference.  The 2011 conference will be held in  Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on June 12 - 15 . To apply: Submit an essay of 1,500 words. Be a first-time conference attendee. Be a St. Kate's MLIS student and a SLA member (student membership fee is $40). Application deadline is March 14, 2011 See the scholarship page on the student group's Web site for full information about the scholarship, criteria for the essay, and where to submit your application. See the SLA Web site for more information on about the 2011 Annual Conference . For questions send an email to the student group on our Contact Us page.

Polly Perkins was our 2010 SLA National Conference Scholarship Winner and she was off to New Orleans in June. Polly wrote of her experience at her first SLA National Conference for the MN SLA Chapter's Spring 2010 Bulletin . Her reflections are reprinted here: SLA in New Orleans: What a Great Time! Polly Perkins, Student Group Co-President I was so excited to be awarded with the St. Kate's SLA Student Group Conference Scholarship. I was thrilled to be able to experience a truly professional networking and learning opportunity in a city I had not seen for over twenty years. When I arrived, I gathered my maps and headed out for a stroll around the French Quarter. I had no concept of the true definition of hot until I stepped outside my hotel and was steam broiled in about two seconds. As I walked and sweated, I was amazed at how lovingly the history had been preserved by the current residents and their refusal to give in to the devastation caused by Katrina. There is a unique...

We are taking applications until January 31 for the Student Group's annual scholarship for attending the SLA conference. Details can be found at http://units.sla.org/studentgrps/ucsc/confschol.shtml (please make sure to read the whole page / all the requirements). Any questions can be emailed to the address on that page. The scholarship is for reimbursements up to $2000 - plenty to cover all your essential expenses! Get the details on the conference at https://www.sla.org/content/Events/conference/index.cfm .

Dear friends- Once again, the St. Kate's Student Group is hosting a silent auction at the MN SLA Holiday Party, in order to raise funds for our annual conference scholarship. Below is our call for donations. Please consider donating something. No matter what, we hope to see you at the party! On Thursday, December 3 , 2009, the St. Kate’s Special Library Association Student Group will host a Silent Auction fundraiser at the Holiday Party event sponsored by MALL and SLA at Open Book in Minneapolis to raise funds for a scholarship. This scholarship will help send a St. Kate’s MLIS student to the SLA Annual Conference being held in New Orleans in June 2010. We would love your help with donations! · Gift certificates – Gas Stations, Restaurants, coffee/tea shops, movie theaters, video stores, book retailers, pet stores, craft stores, Home Depot, Best Buy – any place you frequent · Gift baskets – wine/liquor, bath items, BBQ tools · Tickets to sporting or cultu...

The St. Kate's SLA Student Group is pleased to announce that Erin Perry is the winner of this year's Student SLA Conference Scholarship! Erin will be graduating this May from the Dominican University/St. Kate's MLIS program. She obtained her Bachelor of Arts from the Central College in Pella, Iowa. She is currently employed at Target Corporation where she is Supervisor of Vendor Supply Chain Technology in Vendor Operations. Her team is responsible for troubleshooting, analysis and assisting vendors with supply chain processes. Erin has served since Fall 2007 as one of the SLA Student Group co-presidents. As a member of the leadership board, she has been part of the group's direction and a 2007-2008 campaign to expand membership. She assisted with development and execution of new ideas for fundraising in support of the annual conference scholarship. In addition, she partnered to plan multiple social events and several library tours sponsored by the group. With this as ...

This year we are able to offer a $1,500 scholarship to a St. Kate's MLIS student to attend SLA's 2009 conference in Washington, D.C., June 14-17. The application process is quite easy: you must submit an essay of 1,500 words, be attending the conference for the first time, be in the MLIS program at St. Kate's, and be an SLA member (the membership fee is $35, and it's quite possible a member of the Minnesota SLA chapter would sponsor you). Better to make plans early (registration is cheaper earlier) before hotels and flights fill! Details about the conference can be found here . Go to http://units.sla.org/StudentGrps/ucsc/confschol.shtml for all the details, and let us know if you have questions. Apply now!