As part of Code4Lib's ongoing commitment to reducing economic barriers and
ensuring balanced representation from underrepresented groups, we are
pleased to announce that we are now seeking applicants for our 2025
Diversity Scholarship program
<https://2025.code4lib.org/general-info/scholarships>. The Code4Lib
Scholarship Committee seeks to award several Diversity Scholarships based
on merit and need. Domestic applicants (in the United States and Canada)
can receive up to $1,750 USD. These funds are intended to cover travel
expenses, hotel accommodations, and conference fees for the 2025 Code4Lib
Conference in Princeton, NJ. The deadline for applications is *Friday,
January 24, 2025, 11:59 PM PST.*



Scholarship recipients will have their conference registration and hotel
accommodations covered upfront. Other incidentals, like local
transportation and meals, may be reimbursed depending on the awarded
amount. Reimbursements will be processed at the conference. Additionally,
there is an option to share accommodations with fellow scholarship awardees
or other conference attendees. For inquiries about these arrangements,
please contact *[log in to unmask]
<[log in to unmask]>*. Our goal is to ensure that
financial concerns do not discourage anyone from applying.



We do not expect scholarship recipients to be responsible for being an
ambassador for their group or an educator of others during the conference.
While learning and exchange may happen as a result of interactions between
participants, scholarship recipients are encouraged to focus on getting the
most out of their experience and have no special duties or obligations
apart from conference attendance, engaged participation to their comfort
level, and giving us feedback on their experience.



Code4Lib 2025 Conference <https://2025.code4lib.org/>



*About Code4Lib*

Code4Lib <https://code4lib.org/> seeks to maintain a vibrant and diverse
community of technology-minded folks. We are developers and technologists
for libraries, museums, and archives who have a strong commitment to open
technologies. Code4Lib began as a simple mailing list
<https://wiki.code4lib.org/MailingList> in 2003 and held its first
face-to-face meeting in 2005 in Chicago. The first official annual
conference was held in 2006 in Corvallis, Oregon. Nowadays, the Code4Lib
community gravitates around the same listserv, an annual conference with
hundreds of attendees, as well as IRC and Slack channels
<https://code4lib.org/irc/> that are open for anyone to join. We are
dedicated to being a diverse and inclusive community of technologists
seeking to share ideas and build collaboration. You can read our Code of
Conduct here
<https://github.com/code4lib/code-of-conduct/blob/main/code_of_conduct.md>.



*Code4Lib 2025 Diversity Scholarship Eligibility, Criteria, and
Requirements*


   - Applicants must be a member of a group that is not well-represented
   within the Code4Lib community, including but not limited to: women, people
   of color, LGBTQIA+, disabled persons, etc. We also invite applications from
   members of underrepresented and/or marginalized groups that do not fit into
   the categories listed above.
   - Applicants must be interested in actively engaging with the Code4Lib
   community <https://2025.code4lib.org/general-info/about-c4l>.
   - The scholarship recipients will be selected based upon eligibility,
   financial needs, and rationale
   - What you are looking forward to in Code4Lib 2025
   - How it may meet your professional goals
   - How you may participate in the conference and/or the Code4Lib community


*Code4Lib 2025 Conference Registration Details*Conference registration
spots and hotel rooms are being held for scholarship recipients. If your
attendance is dependent upon receiving a scholarship, you do not need to
register for the conference when registration opens. Code4Lib will
facilitate your registration. While hotel rooms are being held, all
scholarship recipients must book their hotel rooms. Scholarship recipients
will be reimbursed for their accommodations. Should you choose to handle
your own conference registration, the cost of registration, along with
other expenses as detailed in the call for applicants, will be reimbursed
within the parameters of the award. Reimbursement for these expenses will
be provided to scholarship recipients at the conference.



*Made Possible by Sponsors*

Currently, a total of 6 scholarships are available. We would like to thank
our sponsors for their support of the Code4Lib 2025 Diversity Scholarships.



*How to Apply*

Submit your application materials via the Code4Lib online form: Code4Lib
2025 Diversity Scholarship Application Form
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeATjEPzfD2fXuDDLP-fdq9QQIgnCNx95My_mDimDL-8LDzRA/viewform>



Questions can be directed to *[log in to unmask]
<[log in to unmask]>*



The application deadline is *Friday, January 24, 2025, 11:59 PM PST*.


The Code4Lib 2025 Scholarship Committee will notify all applicants by *Monday,
February 10, 2025*, regardless of results.



*  Mairelys* *Lemus-Rojas, **MSLIS *(she/ella/ela)
  Head of Open Metadata Production and Initiatives, BUL
  SALALM <https://salalm.org/> Repository Coordinator
  Scholia <https://scholia.toolforge.org/author/Q50376985> | Google Scholar
<https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=b8AtajgAAAAJ> | ORCID
<https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3727-2187>

*Consider contributing to the advancement of knowledge equity by sharing
your scholarship. When we all share, we make it possible for new knowledge
to be built upon and for new stories to be created.*