<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span class="im" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><h2 dir="ltr" style="font-family:georgia,serif;line-height:1.38;margin-top:10pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:17.3333px;font-family:'Trebuchet MS';color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">NE-ASIS&T Travel Awards 2016: 3 Conference Options</span><span style="font-size:17.3333px;font-family:'Trebuchet MS';color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"><br>
</span><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Application deadline: <span class="" tabindex="0"><span class="">Friday, February 19, 2016</span></span></span><span style="font-size:21.3333px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:400;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"><br>
</span><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Notification of award winners: <span class="" tabindex="0"><span class="">Friday, February 26, 2016</span></span></span></h2><br style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:12.8px"><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">About the Awards: Professional and Student</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">The Association for Information Science & Technology, New England Chapter (NE-ASIS&T) is pleased to announce two awards
to support participation in an ASIS&T Summit or Annual Meeting. Our goals are to support scholarship and connect research and practice, bringing new voices to the chapter. The student award (of up to $1000) and the practitioner award ($500) will support your
year-long membership in ASIS&T as well as your conference registration and part of your travel costs to Atlanta (for the Information Architecture or Research Data Access and Preservation Summits) or Copenhagen (for the Annual Meeting).</span></p><ul style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:12.8px;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:10pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><a href="http://www.iasummit.org/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">IA Summit: A Broader Panorama</span></a><span style="font-size:14.6667px;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"> (<span class="" tabindex="0"><span class="">May 4-8</span></span>, Atlanta)</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><a href="http://www.asis.org/rdap/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">RDAP Summit: Research Data Access and Preservation</span></a><span style="font-size:14.6667px;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"> (<span class="" tabindex="0"><span class="">May 4-6</span></span>, Atlanta)</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><a href="https://www.asist.org/events/annual-meeting/annual-meeting-2016/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">ASIS&T Annual Meeting on Information Science with Impact: Creating Knowledge, Enhancing Lives through Information & Technology</span></a><span style="font-size:14.6667px;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"> (<span class="" tabindex="0"><span class="">October 14-18</span></span>, Copenhagen)</span><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"><br>
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</span></p></li></ul><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">In addition to the conference support, the award provides ASIS&T membership, offering significant benefits:</span></p><ul style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:12.8px;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Membership in our New England regional chapter</span></p><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:circle;font-size:14.6667px;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Mentorship and networking with experienced NE-ASIS&T members</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:circle;font-size:14.6667px;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Opportunities to build professional skills (including project management, budgeting,
marketing, etc.)</span></p></li></ul></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Discounted conference registration for ASIS&T and NE-ASIS&T events</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><a href="https://www.asist.org/events/webinars/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Webinars
</span></a><span style="font-size:14.6667px;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">and discounts on other publications</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">A year’s subscription to the
</span><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Journal of ASIS&T</span><span style="font-size:14.6667px;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">
and the </span><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Bulletin</span></p></li></ul><br style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:12.8px"><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Eligibility & Applications</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Applicants must be either current
</span><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">graduate students</span><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">
or </span><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">practitioners</span><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">
in the field of information science at the time of their application. We define information science broadly: librarians, archivists, data/knowledge managers, information architects, web developers, etc., are all encouraged to apply. Applicants do not need
to be current NE-ASIS&T members, nor do they need to live or work in Boston. However, award winners are expected to participate (in person or remotely) in NE-ASIS&T programming in 2016-17.</span></p><br style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:12.8px"></span><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Each applicant must submit a cover sheet and two
</span><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">short
</span><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">personal statements to
</span><a href="mailto:erdmann@simmons.edu" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;font-weight:700;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">erdmann@simmons.edu</span></a><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"></span><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">by
<span class="" tabindex="0"><span class="">Friday, February 19th, 2016</span></span>. The winner will be notified by <span class="" tabindex="0"><span class="">Friday, February 26th, 2016</span></span>. The subject line should read “Travel Award Application 2016.” </span></p></div><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><font face="georgia, serif" size="2"><b>---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</b></font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif" size="2"><b><br></b></font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif" size="2"><b>Annie Erdmann</b></font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif" size="2">(she/ her/ hers)</font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif">Digital Assets/ eResources Librarian</font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif">Simmons College Library</font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif">Boston MA 02115</font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif">617-521-2723</font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif"><a href="mailto:erdmann@simmons.edu" target="_blank">erdmann@simmons.edu</a></font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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