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BCALA NEWS Volume 41, Issue 3


Summer 2014


2014-15 E.J. Josey Scholarship Award


SUBMITTED BY SYLVIA SPRINKLE-HAMLIN


The 2014-15 E. J. Josey Scholarship award committee of the Black Caucus of the American Library Association seeks essay submissions that address the following topic: How do you maintain traditional library resources and services with the rise of virtual resources and services to a diverse community of library users?


The E. J. Josey Scholarships are unrestricted grants of $2,000 awarded annually to African American students enrolled in or accepted by ALA accredited programs.


Persons Wishing to Apply Must:


• Be an African American citizen of the United States or Canada.


• Be enrolled or accepted by ALA- accredited graduate program leading to a degree in library and information science at the time of application.


The deadline for the essays is December 15, 2014. Essays should be submitted in Microsoft Word to:


• ejjoseyscholarship@gmail.com • The winning essays will be announced at the mid-winter meeting of BCALA


in Chicago, IL during the Midwinter Meeting of the American Library Association in January, 2015.


Special Instructions:


• Include a cover letter providing the applicant’s name, address, phone number, graduate program, and name of school and anticipated date of graduation.


• Essay submissions must be in plain text, Microsoft Word format to be mailed electronically as an attachment.


• Only essays submitted electronically will be considered. Please include E.J. Josey in the subject line of your electronic submission. The essay must be typed, doubled-spaced.


• Please use the MLA style and include a minimum of six bibliographical references.


• Essays will be judged on the basis of good argument development and critical analysis, clear language, conciseness, and creativity.


For more information, visit http://www. bcala.org/awards/joseyapps.htm.


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