We are so happy to announce that Heather Cottle, our wonderful journalism GRA has been awarded the Vormelker-Thomas Student Award. The award provides a $1,500 stipend to assist students attending their first Special Libraries Association Annual conference, which will be June 15-18, 2008 in Seattle, Washington.
Heather is a 2007 graduate of the Missouri School of Journalism and is currently a graduate student at the School of Information Science and Learning Technologies (SISLT). Heather wrote an essay addressing the issue of archiving web-based news, a statement of her professional goals and a statement of what she expects to gain from attending the conference. She will receive a check to help cover her expenses ahead of the conference and will receive the award at the News Division Awards Banquet.
We’re very proud of Heather!!
More about the award can be found at:
http://www.ibiblio.org/slanews/about/vormelker2008.htm
~Dorothy Carner, Head of Journalism Libraries