NASIG Newsletter

AWARDS ANNOUNCEMENTS
Clint Chamberlain and Sarah Sutton, Co-Chairs 

The Awards & Recognition Committee is pleased to announce the beginning of its application cycle for NASIG’s 2007 grants, awards, and scholarships. Every year, NASIG awards student travel grants, awards for promising serialists, scholarships for library school students, and an international award to aid in serials research. Since 1988, NASIG has granted over 130 student grant awards—including 6 grants for Mexican students, 5 Marcia Tuttle Awards for international serials research, 9 Fritz Schwartz educational scholarships, 22 Horizon Awards to recognize up-and-coming members of the profession, and, in 2006, the first ever Serials Specialist award to an outstanding serials paraprofessional.   

Expanding awards promotion has been a priority on A&R’s agenda for the year. For 2007, we are excited to have the opportunity to work with the Library School Outreach Task Force’s Library School Ambassadors Pilot Project, to be conducted over the next seven months. Based on a recommendation from A&R last year, the Library School Ambassadors Pilot Project consists of NASIG members serving as liaisons to select library schools for the purpose of promoting serials work in general and NASIG in particular.  For more awards information, please visit the NASIG Awards Web page at http://www.nasig.org/awards/.  All awards will be presented at the 22nd Annual Conference in Louisville, KY.