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BRASS Gale Cengage Learning Student Travel Award
A $1,000 cash award given to a student enrolled in an ALA accredited master's degree program to attend the ALA Annual Conference and a one-year membership in the Business Reference and Services Section (BRASS) of RUSA. The applicant should have demonstrated interest in a career as a business reference librarian. In addition, the applicant is required to participate in BRASS activities at ALA conference and to write a brief statement about conference experiences for RUSA Update. The applicant may not accept a concurrent ALA-sponsored travel award. Sponsor: Gale Cengage Learning. (Established 1992)
Applicants must submit a written application for the award stating their academic and professional achievements and reasons for choosing business librarianship as a profession along with an academic transcript and three letters of reference.
The jury for choosing an award recipient is a standing committee of BRASS consisting of three to five members (including a chair appointed by the BRASS Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect), at least one of whom is a public librarian. Members will serve a two-year term. Consecutive terms are not permitted. Deadline for receiving submissions is the business day closest to December 15 of any given year. Nominees will be reviewed in a closed meeting of the committee during Midwinter.
1993 — Lora Fitzgerald 1994 — Lisa J. McClain 1995 — Tracy Turnbull 1996 — Deborah Lynn Harrington 1997 — Heidi E. K. Senior 1998 — Lucrea Vinluan Dayrit 1999 — Christina Mehta Prendiville 2000 — Paul Brothers 2001 — Susan Alice Shultz 2002 — Christy A. Donaldson 2003 — David W. Guilliams 2004 — Naaznin Adatia 2005 — Jared Howland 2006 — Beth Dunning 2007 — Anthony B. Lin
