LITA announces scholarship winners for 2001
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ALA News Release
For Immediate Release
July 2001
LITA announces scholarship winners for 2001
The Library and Information Technology Association (LITA), a division of the American Library Association (ALA), is pleased to announce the winners of four scholarships for master's level study at a library school accredited by the ALA. The winners were chosen from seventy applicants.
- The winner of the $3,000 LITA/Christian Larew Memorial Scholarship, sponsored by Informata.com, is Ohla Olekandrivna Buchel. Buchel attends the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
- Marla Peppers is the winner of the LITA/Library Systems and Services (LSSI) Minority Scholarship, sponsored by LSSI. Peppers will receive a $2,500 scholarship. She plans to attend San Jose (Calif.) State University.
- Marisa Duarte is the winner of the LITA/OCLC Minority Scholarship, sponsored by OCLC, Inc. She will use the $2,500 scholarship to pursue her studies at Catholic University in Washington, D.C.
- Farah Gheriss, winner of the LITA/Geac Scholarship, also received $2,500 to study at Catholic University. The scholarship is sponsored by Geac.
The scholarships are designed to encourage the entry of qualified persons into the library technology and/or automation field.
Criteria for the scholarships include previous academic excellence, evidence of leadership potential and a commitment to a career in library automation and information technology. Two of the scholarships, the LITA/LSSI Minority Scholarship and the LITA/OCLC Minority Scholarship, also require U.S. citizenship and membership in one of four minority groups: American Indian or Alaskan Native, Asian or Pacific Islander, African-American or Hispanic.
The scholarship winners were honored at the LITA President's Program during the ALA Annual Conference in San Francisco, June 18, 2001.
