CALA - Chinese American Librarians Association 華人圖書館員協會

Once again, it is time to apply for CALA’s conference travel grant if you are planning or have planned on attending some professional conferences between now and June 2012. The CALA Conference Travel Grant Committee is pleased to announce the availability of the 2011/2012 conference travel grant and encourage all eligible CALA members to apply.

The purpose of this travel grant is to support our members in their efforts to play an active role at professional conferences for their professional or career development. To facilitate the application process, some essential information is provided below:

Applicant Eligibility:

• The applicant must be a CALA member in good standing for three consecutive years, including the year of application.
• The applicant must have an assigned duty at the conference to be attended, e.g., to present a paper, to chair a committee, or to serve as an officer to convene a meeting or a social function at the conference.
• All grant activities must be within the funding period of the year.
• The applicant must have not received the CALA travel grant in the past three years.

Supported Conferences:

All professional conferences associated with library and information science are supported by the CALA grant. However, priority will be given to those conferences which CALA sponsors or cosponsors or plays an active role of endorsing. Examples of the conference include, but are not limited to:

• CALA sponsored/cosponsored international, national, or regional conferences, meetings, and forums.
• ALA conferences and meetings (including all those of its divisions, roundtables, and standing committees)
• IFLA conferences and meetings
• Other conferences that advance and promote the profession of library and information science.

Application Deadline: April 7, 2012.

It is important to know that the 2011/2012 grant covers only conferences that take place between July 2011 and June 2012. Applications for conferences scheduled after June 2012 will need to be submitted in the next grant-issuing period.

Where to Send Your Application: Please send your application with the completed application forma and the required documents (as listed in the Conference Travel Grant Guidelines ) electronically via email to both co-chairs of the Conference Travel Grant Committee at: ysong2@calstatela.edu and dajin.sun@yale.edu.

For more information about this conference travel grant, please visit the CALA web page at: http://www.cala-web.org/node/835.

Thank you,

CALA Conference Travel Grant Ad Hoc Committee:
Yongyi Song, co-chair
Dajin Sun, co-chair
Raymond Wang
Ying Xu
Li Zhang