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Winberta Yao Travel Award

PAST RECIPIENTS

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 $700.00.

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 a report of conference activities and experiences for the chapter newsletter, Mountain Ledger. This report should include an account of how the award helped the recipient's professional development.

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

DEADLINE: Applications must be postmarked or emailed by February 1, 2008.

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

Send letter of application and resume to:

Nina Stephenson, Chair
Winberta Yao Travel Award Committee
Fine Arts Library MSC05 3020
1 University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM 87131-0001
Email: nstephen@unm.edu

(If you choose to send the application via email, put Winberta Yao Travel Award in the subject line.)

PAST RECIPIENTS:

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.