The NASIG Awards and Recognition Committee is now accepting applications for the Equity and Inclusion Award. The purpose of this award is to further the NASIG mission to increase the diversity of its membership and provide financial support to attend the NASIG annual conference. Applicants must be a member of an underrepresented group in the NASIG community. This award is sponsored by Harrassowitz. Please apply by March 15, 2024.
What is Received
- Conference registration, 4 nights hotel covered at conference hotel
- $600 cash stipendium for all incidentals
- Recipient arranges all travel, meals, etc on their own
- One year’s free membership in NASIG
- Invitation to serve on a NASIG committee the year following the award
Eligibility
- Applicant must be members of an underrepresented group in the NASIG community (i.e. African-American, Latinx/Hispanic, Asian/Pacific Islander or Native American/Alaskan Native, members of the LGBTQ+ community or individuals with disabilities).
- This award is open to qualified applicants residing in any NASIG member country (defined for this purpose as the United States, Canada, Mexico, and Greenland).
- Applicants must currently be in a position with primary responsibilities for some aspect of information resource management (e.g., serials and/or e-resources acquisitions, resource metadata and discovery, scholarly communications, collections management, digital publishing, e-resource or serials sales, scholarly publishing, or knowledgebase management), vendor, agent, or scholarly publisher.
- Applicants must have served in this position for no more than three years at the time of the application deadline and must not have been in a professional library or library-related position (e.g. book vendor, publisher) for more than five years at the time of the application deadline.
- Applicants must not have attended any previous NASIG conferences, but may have participated in a NASIG conference as a local volunteer.
- Applicants do not have to be a member of NASIG.
- Preference will be given to applicants whose career goals include professional growth and development in information resource management (e.g., serials and/or e-resources acquisitions, resource metadata and discovery, scholarly communications, collections management, digital publishing, e-resource or serials sales, scholarly publishing, or knowledgebase management), vendor, agent, or scholarly publishing after earning the graduate library degree.
To learn more about the application process please visit, https://nasig.org/NASIG-Awards.
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