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OCLC is happy to announce that the recipient of the OCLC Women in Technology Scholarship is Esther Marie Jackson. Esther is a Public Services Librarian at the New York Botanical Gardens where she has worked on several coding projects including a bibliographic web-scraping program written in Python and a visitor/gate-count application written in Ruby. She is a Teaching Assistant with Girl Develop It NYC and a classroom helper for Software Carpentry and Data Carpentry. Thanks to everyone who applied for the scholarship and congratulations to Esther. Karen On Wed, Dec 20, 2017 at 3:27 PM, Karen Coombs <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > I'm happy to announce that my employer, OCLC, is funding a scholarship > this year to defray the costs for a woman to attend the Code4Lib > Conference. Called the "OCLC Women in Library Technology Scholarship," it > provides up to $1,500 to cover expenses of registering for and attending > the conference. The only requirement is that the awardee participates in > the conference in some way, whether through presenting a prepared talk, a > lightning talk, a poster, or leading a breakout. > > > > I've written a blog post to explain why we are funding a scholarship here: > > > http://www.oclc.org/blog/main/progress-and-patience-increas > ing-female-participation-in-technical-conferences > > > > Applications can be made by sending an email message describing your > reasons for applying to [log in to unmask] by January 12, 2018. The > winner will be announced on January 23, 2018. > > > Karen >