Call for applications for a student bursary to attend this year’s ARLIS Conference

The ARLIS Professional Development Committee announced a call for applications for a student bursary to attend this conference.

Here are details of the notice:

Please note that this bursary is for attendance at the conference only and does not cover travel or accommodation. The Annual Conference Student Award is open to full-time or part-time students working for a first degree or post-graduate qualification in librarianship and information studies.

The purpose of this award is to enable one student per year to attend the ARLIS/UK & Ireland annual conference free of charge, thereby providing the opportunity to learn more of:

• The range of visual arts library activity in the UK & Ireland and abroad

• The nature and variety of visual arts librarianship as a subject specialisation

• The work and wider network of ARLIS/UK & Ireland

The award consists of a single fully-funded place at the ARLIS/UK & Ireland Annual Conference. Further details of the conference can be found at http://arlisdublin.wixsite.com/arlisdublin2017 and a fuller programme will soon be available.

To apply for the award, please submit a completed Application Form (available to download at http://www.arlis.net/awards/bursaries) to nickbrown@christies.edu. The deadline for applications is Friday 24th March 2017 and applicants will be notified of the decision by early April.

NOTES: If you are registered on an appropriate course at ANY point during the current year of the award you are eligible to apply. Previous applicants will be accepted. The decisions of the Council of ARLIS/UK & Ireland and its Grants Panel shall be final, and no correspondence regarding these shall be entered into. The Council of ARLIS/UK & Ireland reserves the right to make no award if no suitable application is received.