{"id":729,"date":"2014-04-01T21:55:42","date_gmt":"2014-04-02T02:55:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/?p=729"},"modified":"2014-04-22T13:14:35","modified_gmt":"2014-04-22T18:14:35","slug":"miriam-braverman-memorial-prize-seeks-student-entries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/archives\/729","title":{"rendered":"Miriam Braverman Memorial Prize Seeks Student Entries"},"content":{"rendered":"

Did you know that 23% of the GLBTRT’s membership are students? The Miriam Braverman Memorial Prize is looking for the best paper about the social responsibilities of librarians, libraries, or librarianship from a student currently enrolled in library school. The prize includes a $500 stipend to offset travel costs to the 2014 Annual ALA Conference in Las Vegas as well as publication of the winning paper in the Summer 2014 issue of\u00a0Progressive Librarian. \u00a0<\/em>Here are the details for how to enter:<\/p>\n

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  1. Contestants must be Library and\/or Information Science students attending a\u00a0graduate level\u00a0program in the United States or Canada. Contestants may not have\u00a0finished their coursework earlier than December 2013.<\/li>\n
  2. Entries must be the original, unpublished work of the contestant, and must be written in\u00a0<\/span>English. Entries may not exceed 3,000 words and must conform to MLA intext\u00a0<\/span>citation\u00a0style.<\/span><\/span><\/span> <\/li>\n
  3. To facilitate the blind review process, each entry must include a cover sheet providing the\u00a0contestant’s name, full contact information (address, phone number, email\u00a0address), nameof the institution where the contestant is enrolled, and the title of the paper. No identifying\u00a0information other than the title should appear on the paper itself.<\/span><\/span><\/span> <\/li>\n
  4. Entries must be submitted electronically, in Microsoft Word or RTF format, to\u00a0<\/span>bravermansubmissions@gmail.com<\/a>. Entries must be received no later than\u00a05:00 p.m. CST\u00a0<\/span>on International Workers\u2019 Day or May Day,\u00a0Thursday, May 1, 2014.<\/span><\/span><\/span> <\/li>\n
  5. The $500 stipend is available only\u2020to help defray the cost of ALA \u00a0conference attendance\u00a0in 2013\u037e if the winner of the contest is unable to attend, the money will remain in the\u00a0Braverman Prize endowment fund. The winner will still be offered publication in\u00a0<\/span>Progressive Librarian<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n

    Any questions regarding the contest or the selection process can be directed to the chairs of the\u00a0selection committee, Megan Browndorf at\u00a0margaret.a.browndorf@gmail.com<\/a>\u00a0or Kelly McElroy at\u00a0kellymce@gmail.com<\/a>. More information about Miriam Braverman and about the Progressive\u00a0Librarians Guild, including winning papers from previous years, is available at\u00a0http:\/\/progressivelibrariansguild.org\/content\/award.shtml<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Did you know that 23% of the GLBTRT’s membership are students? The Miriam Braverman Memorial Prize is looking for the best paper about the social responsibilities of librarians, libraries, or librarianship from a student currently enrolled in library school. The prize includes a $500 stipend to offset travel costs to the 2014 Annual ALA Conference […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":752,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-announcements","category-opportunities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}