Librarianship Into the Future Award

The School of Information Studies seeks to engage with potential and existing students, alumni, and other iSchool community members in innovative ways, just as libraries in the future must reach out to their patrons in imaginative ways. We aspire to be a leader in the use of the social web, and therefore, we would like to encourage students interested in being prominent in this space to join us at Syracuse.

To do this, we have established the Librarianship into the Future Scholarship.This award will be offered for the first time in 2009. This award will cover 50 percent of scholarship recipients’ tuition expenses toward their MSLIS degree at the Syracuse.

Librarianship into the Future Scholarship winners will be responsible for creating regular content in the social web talking about their experiences as a Syracuse student, their impressions of LIS news, interviews with alumni, or other ways of demonstrating their connection with the school. We are seeking students who are comfortable producing audio, video, blog postings, Facebook, Second Life spaces, or other modes of communication in the social web environment.

To apply, create something. This can be a video, an audio clip, the text for a blog post, a space in a virtual world, or anything else that is part of the social web. This should be a combination of a platform for your personality along with content with an example of what a library could do to reach out to patrons. It can be public or private, and should take us no more than 5 minutes to encounter.

For questions or to submit by email contact Sue Corieri sbcorier@syr.edu