To encourage professional and leadership development in Chinese American librarianship, CALA offers several scholarships each year to students, new librarians, and library school faculty.
The CALA Scholarship of Library and Information Science, $1,000
The Sheila Suen Lai Scholarship of Library and Information Science, $500
Lisa Zhao Scholarship, $400 each
The Huang Tso-ping and Wu Yao-yu Research and Scholarship, for faculty and students at Wuhan University, China
Scholarship applications are open between January and March. To be eligible, applicants must be of Chinese descent and a CALA member. For the student scholarships, applicants should be full-time students who are currently or will soon be enrolled in an ALA-accredited library and information science program. Recipients are expected to serve on at least one CALA committee.
The application deadline for 2022 is March 15. To apply, fill out the application form and submit it online. Include the following materials in your application:
For questions concerning the scholarships and/or the application process, feel free to contact the CALA Scholarship Committee.
Lijuan Xu (co-chair), xul@lafayette.edu
Qinghua Xu (co-chair), xqhiris@gmail.com
Jia He, jiahe@southalabama.edu
Susen Shi, susenshi@nypl.org
Wei Zhang, zhangw94@mcmaster.ca
Scholarships Awarded in the Past