{"id":4597,"date":"2017-04-28T02:54:22","date_gmt":"2017-04-28T02:54:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hsli.org\/?p=4597"},"modified":"2017-04-28T02:54:22","modified_gmt":"2017-04-28T02:54:22","slug":"apply-for-the-mlamidwest-chapter-first-time-attendee-grant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/apply-for-the-mlamidwest-chapter-first-time-attendee-grant\/","title":{"rendered":"Apply for the MLA\/Midwest Chapter First-Time Attendee Grant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(via Abigail Goben, University of Illinois at Chicago)<\/p>\n<p>Are you thinking about attending your first MLA\/Midwest Chapter meeting? If you have a master&#8217;s degree in library\/information science and have never attended a Midwest Chapter Annual Meeting before, apply for the Midwest Chapter\/MLA First-Time Attendee Annual Meeting Grant. Free full conference registration and a $500 award are available to support attendance is available for one attendee. The Chapter&#8217;s 2017 meeting is scheduled for\u00a0<b>October 13-16<\/b>\u00a0in Ypsilanti, MI.<\/p>\n<p>To qualify, applicants must be the following.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>a current member of the Midwest Chapter\/MLA<\/li>\n<li>a resident of one of the following nine states: Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, North Dakota, Ohio, or Wisconsin<\/li>\n<li>a holder of a master&#8217;s degree in library\/information science<\/li>\n<li>someone who has ever attended a Midwest Chapter Annual Meeting<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Full details about the MLA\/Midwest Chapter First-Time Attendee Award are available\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/midwestmla.org\/committees\/awards\/2017\/FirstTimeAttendGrantInformation2017.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>. Information about awards sponsored by other MLA chapter can be found\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/midwestmla.org\/committees\/awards\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>. Applications are due\u00a0<b>Friday,<\/b>\u00a0<b>May 26<\/b>. If you have questions, please contact Nicole Theis-Mahon, Chair of the Awards and Scholarships Committee, at\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:theis025@umn.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">theis025@umn.edu<\/a>. I&#8217;m also happy to speak with you about my experience having received this grant in the past. Please e-mail me at\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:agoben@uic.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">agoben@uic.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(via Abigail Goben, University of Illinois at Chicago) Are you thinking about attending your first MLA\/Midwest Chapter meeting? If you have a master&#8217;s degree in library\/information science and have never attended a Midwest Chapter Annual Meeting before, apply for the Midwest Chapter\/MLA First-Time Attendee Annual Meeting Grant. Free full conference registration and a $500 award&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,18,19,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-awards-non-hsli","category-library-associations-non-hsli","category-medical-library-association","category-midwest-mla"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4597\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}