Scholarships of up to $975 each are available for member library staff to attend workshops, webinars, conferences, and other continuing education opportunities.
The following conditions apply:
- Scholarship applicants must be an employee of a PLAN member library. Both part-time and full-time employees are eligible.
- Scholarship recipients will receive a lump sum payment after they complete the training event. PLAN does not require receipts for scholarship payment requests, but does require a signed Certificate of Attendance and Request for Payment before payment will be made.
- Scholarship recipients must complete the online training survey before payment will be made.
- Scholarships are awarded to member libraries, not individuals.
- Member libraries that have funding available for their staff to attend training are encouraged to use their own funding before approaching PLAN.
- A limited number of scholarships are available for each major library conference.
Please note the following application deadlines for library conferences and other training:
|
CONFERENCE |
LOCATION |
DATES |
APPLICATION DEADLINE |
|
FAME |
Orlando, FL |
Nov 28-Dec 1, 2018 |
09/14/2018 |
|
ALA Midwinter |
Seattle, WA |
January 25-29, 2019 |
10/15/2018 |
|
Computers in Libraries |
Washington, DC |
March 26-28, 2019 |
12/14/2018 |
|
Association of College & Research Libraries |
Cleveland, OH |
April 10-13, 2019 |
01/15/2019 |
|
FLA |
Orlando, FL |
May 15-17, 2019 |
02/15/2019 |
|
ALA Annual |
Washington, DC |
June 20-25, 2019 |
03/15/2019 |
|
ASRL |
Vermont |
September 4-7, 2019 |
03/15/2019 |
|
Others* |
8 weeks before training |
*If you are interested in training that is not listed above, please submit your application at least 8 weeks prior to the training.
Factors that are considered in awarding scholarships include:
- Availability of funding
- Suitability of training to support librarianship
- Distribution of available scholarship funding among as many PLAN members as possible
- Willingness of scholarship recipient to share their knowledge with the PLAN membership at either a PLAN conference, a PLAN webinar, or in a PLAN blog post
Documents:
Scholarship Application
Certification of Attendance and Request for Payment
If you have any questions, please send us an email.
