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From our friends at the Visual Resources Association (VRA): ________________________________________________ Dear colleagues, We are delighted to announce that VRA Travel Awards are available for attendance at the 2017 VRA conference in Louisville, Kentucky, March 29-April 1, 2017. The deadline for receipt of applications will be Monday, November 21, 12pm EST. The list of recipients will be announced on the VRA listserv the week commencing December 20, 2016. A preliminary conference schedule with a listing of workshops and sessions can be found here: https://vra34.sched.org/. Information about costs is posted here: http://www.vraweb.org/conferences/vra34/registration/ and here: http://www.vraweb.org/conferences/vra34/accomodations/ Before you apply, PLEASE READ "Travel Award Rules, Guidelines and Tips” for VRA Travel Awards Applicants, and "Types of Travel Awards", both linked here as PDFs: http://vraweb.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/2015-VRATARulesGuidelinesPlusTips1.pdf http://vraweb.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Types_of_Travel_Awards_TACommOct2015.pdf HERE'S THE LINK TO THE APPLICATION (also accessible from the VRA Travel Awards Committee webpage): https://docs.google.com/a/binghamton.edu/forms/d/1yl8opWkoWIgoOCJgKwfhRzhLsfKiBqyKR_jp wLsu6t0/edit You do not need to be a member of the VRA to apply for a travel award, but please note that upon winning an award an applicant who is not a member of VRA must purchase a membership. Please also note that award checks are distributed at the conference and as such, recipients will not have access to those funds ahead of the conference to set against travel expenses. In order to allow funding to go further, Tansey awards will be distributed according to financial need i.e. full awards (up to $850) may be given to some, whilst lower amounts may be awarded to others with partial institutional/ other support. Travel Awards are intended to provide partial support for an individual’s conference attendance and typically supplement support from one’s employer and/or personal resources. For 2017, we are fortunate to have generous financial support from sponsors and funds provided by the membership including: · Two New Horizons awards of $850 each. These awards are aimed at members in the following categories: solo VR professionals, part-time VR professionals, geographically isolated VR professionals, VR professionals in smaller institutions, and/or first-time attendees · A New Horizons student award of $300, for a full-time student enrolled in an accredited degree program and considering a career in visual resources · Kathe Hicks Albrecht award of $850 · Tansey fund awards ranging from $250 to $850 each More awards may become available and will be announced on this listserv. Also, stay tuned and watch VRA-L and the VRA website for further details about the conference. Please email if you have any questions not answered by the documents noted above. So don't delay - apply today! We look forward to receiving your applications, Marcia Focht & Michael Donovan Co-Chairs, VRA Travel Awards Committee -- Marcia Focht Curator of Visual Resources Binghamton University [log in to unmask] Michael J. Donovan Senior Cataloging and Metadata Assistant John. M. Flaxman Library | The School of the Art Institute of Chicago [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> __________________________________________________________ Louisa Kwasigroch Director of Development & Outreach Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) Digital Library Federation (DLF) +1-202-939-4758 1707 L Street, NW, Suite 650, Washington, DC 20036 clir.org<http://www.clir.org/> | diglib.org<http://www.diglib.org/> | @CLIRnews<http://www.twitter.com/clirnews> | @CLIRDLF<http://www.twitter.com/clirdlf> ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the DLF-ANNOUNCE list, click the following link: http://lists.clir.org/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=DLF-ANNOUNCE&A=1