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SCHOLARSHIP APPLICATION
Applicants will be evaluated on the basis of:
- Experience and background in library and library related work;
- Career plans in the library profession;
- Need and desire for the scholarship;
- Past academic performance.
Affirmative action and equal opportunity principles will be applied. Racial or ethnic minorities, women and disabled persons are encouraged to apply and may identify themselves as such if they wish.
Applicants must submit a completed application form. If any information requested cannot be provided via the online submission form, please forward such to:
Scholarship Committee Chair
WLA Foundation, Inc.
4610 South Biltmore Lane, Suite 100
Madison, WI 53718-2153
Applicants will be notified by email. The scholarship recipient will be announced at the WLA Annual Fall Conference.
*The scholarship’s monetary award varies and is based on funds available from the WLA Foundation, Inc. The recipient may receive this award only once.
ABOUT SALLY DAVIS
This annual award was endowed through a bequest from the estate of Sally Davis, a longtime WLA member and former librarian at UW-Madison School of Library and Information Studies. Ms. Davis was WLA President from 1969-70 when she was Director of School Libraries in Oconomowoc.