Art Libraries Society of North America | Mountain West Chapter
 
Winberta Yao Travel Award
Past Recipients

Travel Award Committee:

  • Carrie McDade, Chair
    carrie.mcdade@utah.edu
  • Alexandria Caster
    cacaster@email.arizona.edu

Deadline:  Applications must be postmarked or emailed by: TBA

Successful applicant will be notified at least 5 weeks prior to the conference.

Send letter of application and resume to:

Carrie McDade
Email: carrie.mcdade@utah.edu

Fine Arts & Architecture LIbrarian
Marriott Library / University of Utah
295 South 1500 East
Salt Lake City, UT 84112-0860

 

If submitting via email, put "Winberta Yao Travel Award" in the subject line.

SUBMISSION DEADLINE:
TBA

This travel award was established in honor and recognition of Art Librarian Winberta Yao, a co-founder and the first president of ARLIS/AZ (Arizona). Winberta Yao worked at Arizona State University from 1975-1997, although her interest in forming a chapter of ARLIS began earlier, while she was working at the Phoenix Art Museum. ARLIS/AZ, established in 1975, became ARLIS/MW (Mountain West), when the states of Colorado, New Mexico, Nevada, Utah and Wyoming joined the chapter in 1997. Montana joined the chapter in 2003.

Purpose:

To encourage chapter and conference participation by supporting travel expenses for attendance at the ARLIS/NA annual conference or the ARLIS/NA-MW annual conference. If, for any reason, the travel award is not granted for the ARLIS/NA conference, the call for applications will be reposted before the next ARLIS/NA-MW annual meeting.

Award amount: up to $500.00

This award is dependent on Chapter member donations, and whatever additional amount the Chapter’s Winberta Yao travel award committee, in discussion with the Chapter executive board, sees fit to add to the donations, each year.

Eligibility:

Current ARLIS/NA-MW and ARLIS/NA member living in the Mountain West region including Arizona, Colorado, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming. Applicants must receive partial or no institutional funding toward ARLIS conference travel.

Award criteria:

Preference is given to librarians and to students currently enrolled in or accepted into an accredited school of library and/or information science. Priority is also given to first-time attendees, and to those who are participating in the conference as a speaker, panel member, session moderator, session recorder, or ARLIS/NA committee member.

Conditions of the Award:

 Award winner must write and submit a report to the Winberta Yao Travel Award committee chair of conference activities and experiences for the chapter newsletter, The Mountain Ledger. This report should include an account of how the award helped the recipient's professional development. Award recipients are strongly encouraged to take future committee and leadership responsibilities in the Mountain West Chapter.

To apply for an award, submit:

  • A letter of application indicating the conference for which the applicant seeks funding and addressing relevant eligibility and award criteria. The application should include a description of interest and expectations of the conference and its relevance to the applicant's professional development.

  • An estimate of conference expenses and amount of applicant's institutional funding.

  • A one-page resume listing employment history, educational background, and professional activities. Include preferred mailing address, telephone number, FAX number, and e-mail address.

Guidelines approved by Mountain West chapter membership, 11/12/09
 
Past Award Recipients

2011
Heather Kline earned her MLIS in 2007 from the University of Alabama, and is currently enrolled in the graduate art history program at the University of New Mexico, where she also works as a research assistant in the Bunting Visual Resources Library. Her professional interests focus on the collaboration between libraries and museums, and the integration of visual resources into art collections. She has published several book reviews in the ARLIS/NA Reviews and is very interested in collegial networking.

2010
Alexandria Caster is a SIRLS graduate student at the University of Arizona. She participated in the Boston conference mentorship program, and will also create and share a blog with all ARLIS members from the perspective of a first-time conference attendee.
Alexandria's Report

2009
Elizabeth Ehrnst has been a member of ARLIS/NA since 2006 and is a brand new member of ARLIS/MW. She began her position as the Archives and Digital Collections Librarian at the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum Research Center (in Santa Fe, NM) in August 2008. Liz completed her Masters of Library Science degree at Indiana University, Bloomington, in 2007. She used this award to attend the ARLIS/NA annual meeting in Indianapolis.
Liz's Report

2008
Tammy Ravas was the recipient of the Winberta Yao Travel Award for 2008, and she used the award to travel to the ARLIS/NA annual conference in Denver in May 2008. Tammy is the Fine Arts Librarian and Media Coordinator at the Mansfield Library, University of Montana.
http://content.lib.umt.edu/finearts/

2007
Meredith Friedman, graduate student in the School of Information Resources and Library Science (SIRLS) program at the University of Arizona (graduated August 2007). Since enrolling in SIRLS, Meredith has attended the Summer Institute in Florence, Italy through the Pratt Institute and has been awarded the Ansel Adams intern at the Center for Creative Photography of the University of Arizona. Meredith attended the 2007 ARLIS/NA annual conference.

2006
Angelica Moyes Lopez used the award to attend the ARLIS/NA conference in Banff, Alberta, Canada. Angelica is a Librarian at the Salt Lake City Public Library.

2005
Jennifer Parker, Art and Architecture Librarian at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Jennifer attended the chapter conference in Santa Fe.

2004
Alessia Zanin-Yost, Montana State University, Bozeman. Alessia attended the chapter conference in Denver.