Scholarships
Scholarships for the 2020/2021 conference have been awarded and recipients will be acknowledged during the annual business meeting.
The Ohio Valley Group of Technical Services Librarians is pleased to offer three library student scholarships and two diversity scholarships to attend the 2020/2021 OVGTSL Annual Conference. All scholarships cover full conference registration. We thank OhioNET for sponsoring a student and diversity scholarship and NASIG for sponsoring a diversity scholarship
2020/2021 Diversity Scholarship Recipients
Genevia M. Chamblee-Smith, North Carolina Central University
Genevia M. Chamblee-Smith is currently pursuing a master of library and information science degree at North Carolina Central University. She most recently worked as a Graduate Research Assistant for the Hacking into History: Discovering Racial Covenants in Durham County Property Deeds, a collaborative project with NCCU SLIS, DataWorks NC, and Durham County Registrar of Deeds. This project is a civic engagement project that discuss the impact of racial segregation in Durham County, NC. She has worked in special libraries for the past 10 years. She is passionate about pursuing a career in library science to combine her passions for African American history, genealogy, and community archives. Her goal is to become a special collection librarian and work with underrepresented communities to share their stories.
Nincy George, RAILS
Nincy George is the Cataloging Services Coordinator at RAILS. She is responsible for cataloging and cataloging-related services to RAILS members, including training and coordination of specialized cataloging support. She received her MLIS from Dominican University, IL. She also has an MLIS from India and B.S. in Biology from the University of Calicut, India. She has more than 12 years of cataloging experience in academic, public, and school libraries. Her professional and research interests include metadata, information organization, and linked data.2020/2021 Student Scholarship Recipients
Justina Kaiser, Indiana University
Justina Kaiser graduated from Indiana University with a specialization in digital curation in 2020; since then, she has joined Miami University of Oxford as its Digital Discovery Librarian, where she acts as a liaison between its web services and technical services teams. She is currently working to develop an API that will assist with catalog record updates and hopes to continue her grad-school research into diversifying metadata in the future.
Alyssa Coon, University of Kentucky
Alyssa Coon graduated from the University of Kentucky library program in May 2021. I am currently working at Georgetown College as the Weekend Circulation Manager and Peer Tutoring Coordinator. She is interested in cataloging and technical services and was formerly the Special Collections Cataloging Graduate Assistant at UK.
Brenna Hubschman, Kent State University
Scholarship recipients will be required to submit a brief review of the conference and their experience within 30 days of the end of the conference.
Brenna Hubschman is a graduate assistant and recent graduate of the Kent State iSchool. Brenna has recently had a paper on digital humanities published in The Journal of Academic Librarianship and is currently working on a second paper about ALA’s “Libraries Transform” campaign.
Scholarship recipients will be required to submit a brief review of the conference and their experience within 30 days of the end of the conference.
Questions regarding scholarships may be directed to Erin Kilkenny, Scholarship Chair: ekilkenny@ohiolink.edu
Important Dates
- Application Deadline: March 2, 2020
- Notification Deadline: March 16, 2020
- Acceptance Deadline: March 30, 2020
Student Scholarships
Any full or part-time student enrolled at an ALA-accredited library/information science school in Indiana, Kentucky, or Ohio as of Spring 2020 (including those graduating in Spring 2020) is eligible to apply. Applicants are not required to reside in the Ohio Valley region.
Applicants should include a resume and a short statement (no more than 250 words) summarizing how they would benefit from attending this conference.
Student Scholarship Application
Diversity Scholarships
Diversity scholarships will be awarded to a library student or professional from underrepresented groups and marginalized identities, including but not limited to: people of color, LGBTQIA+, ability/disability, and others who are traditionally underrepresented in libraries. Any individual currently employed full or part time in the library field or enrolled full or part time in an ALA accredited library/information science graduate program is eligible to apply.
Applicants should include a resume and a short statement (no more than 250 words) summarizing how they would benefit from attending this conference.
Diversity Scholarship Application
Scholarships Subcommittee
- Erin Kilkennny (Chair), OhioLINK
- Grace Brinker, Cuyahoga County Public Library
- Colleen Fedewa, Case Western Reserve University
- Yuezeng Yang, Cleveland State University