Opportunities for Students of Color
Posted January 31, 2022
Description: BCALA invites students to take part in two exciting opportunities—a one-day Virtual Symposium plus a workshop at the 2022 ALA Annual Conference as part of BCALA’s Breaking Barriers National Forum series. The goal of this project is to ideate and create a national, virtual BCALA student organization. Who: Black/African American MLIS students What: Submit a 15-minute application to take part in forum…
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Posted January 28, 2022
Description: Salary: $68,000 Position Purpose: The Brown University Library is a dynamic center of scholarship and community at the heart of a world-class research university. Supporting and collaborating with a broad and diverse academic constituency, the Library is essential for Brown’s mission “to serve the community, the nation, and the world by discovering, communicating, and preserving knowledge and understanding in…
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Posted January 28, 2022
Description: Annual Salary: $68,000 The Brown University Library is a dynamic center of scholarship and community at the heart of a world-class research university. Supporting and collaborating with a broad and diverse academic constituency, the Library is essential for Brown’s mission “to serve the community, the nation, and the world by discovering, communicating, and preserving…
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Posted January 28, 2022
Description: BCALA invites students to take part in two exciting opportunities—a one-day Virtual Symposium plus a workshop at the 2022 ALA Annual Conference as part of BCALA’s Breaking Barriers National Forum series. The goal of this project is to ideate and create a national, virtual BCALA student organization. Who: Black/African American MLIS students What: Submit a 15-minute application to take part in forum…
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Posted January 14, 2022
Description Under the Supervision of the Instruction and Community Engagement Librarian, the Archival Assistant for Oral History Project will assist with the completion of a grant-funded oral history project, Building Representation of Underrepresented Alumni Voices in the Oral History Collection. The aim of this project is to connect with alumni who are members of minority…
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Posted January 7, 2022
Description: The Chinese American Librarian Association (CALA) is soliciting scholarship applications from students and new librarians. CALA offers several scholarships, including the CALA Scholarship of Library and Information Science, the Sheila Suen Lai Scholarship, and the Lisa Zhao Scholarship. Open to full-time students and new librarians who are of Chinese descent, these scholarships are designed…
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Posted December 7, 2021
Description: The General Collections Care Section (GCCS) provides treatment and housing of general and reference collections, which are defined as items created after 1801. Treatment activities focus primarily on general and reference collections, where damage to items has been identified through use. Housing is provided through the use of an automated box-making system and is…
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Posted November 5, 2021
Description: The Knowledge Management Internship Program is an exciting 10-week paid program designed to give current graduate students who identify as Black, Latinx and/or Native American/Alaska Native the opportunity to strengthen their business and leadership skill set while gaining exposure to Knowledge Management at one of the world’s top tier strategy consulting firms. The program is open…
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Posted October 25, 2021
Description: The Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship for Diversity, Inclusion & Cultural Heritage at Rare Book School is now inviting applications to its third cohort (2022–2024), which will be selected in early 2022. This program offers unique professional development opportunities for early- to mid-career professionals currently working in a special collections library, an archive, or at other cultural heritage institutions located in the United…
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Posted October 14, 2021
Description: The 2021-2022 E J Josey Scholarship Award Committee of the Black Caucus of the American Library Association seeks essay submissions. E J Josey Scholarship Award Committee of the Black Caucus of the American Library Association is now seeking essay submissions for the year 2021-2022. Please choose from one of the following topics: Social Justice,…
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