BRASS Academic Business Librarianship Travel Award

This award presents a citation and $1,250 to an individual new to the field of academic business librarianship in order to support attendance at the ALA Annual Conference. This award is made possible by the generous support of Global Financial Data.

For more information please visit: https://www.ala.org/rusa/brass-academic-business-librarianship-travel-award.

Criteria

Applicants should be an academic librarian with five or fewer years of experience in business librarianship or be a new (less than five years) member to BRASS. Nomination letters should address the following criteria:

• The candidate should be an academic librarian with five or fewer years of experience in business librarianship
• Nominee’s interest in business librarianship as demonstrated by activities that may include (but are not limited to) past coursework, internships, jobs, special projects, and publications (40%)
• An explanation of how the ALA experience will enhance individual career development and the advancement of the profession of business librarianship (30%)
• A demonstrated financial need (20%)
• The candidate does not need to be a member of ALA, RUSA, or BRASS but preference will be given to those that are members (10%)

View BRASS Academic Librarian Travel Award Rubric.