<div dir="ltr"><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(32,33,36);font-family:"docs-Be Vietnam Pro";font-size:14.6667px">For interested applicants, please use the link provided below to apply for the Diversity Scholarship Award. For anyone else, please feel free to share information about this scholarship far and wide (keeping in mind that the applicants must currently live in Ohio).</span></div><p style="margin:0px;color:rgb(32,33,36);font-family:"docs-Be Vietnam Pro";font-size:14.6667px"><br></p><p style="margin:0px;color:rgb(32,33,36);font-family:"docs-Be Vietnam Pro";font-size:14.6667px"><u style="font-weight:bold">Diversity Scholarship Award Application 2025</u></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin:0px;color:rgb(32,33,36);font-family:"docs-Be Vietnam Pro";font-size:14.6667px">ALAO values diversity in its membership, in the profession, and in future library professionals.  And for that reason, we are pleased to offer a $1,500 scholarship to a promising student enrolled in an ALA-accredited MLS program who exemplifies the qualities needed to ensure a diverse library workforce.</p><p dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom:0px;color:rgb(32,33,36);font-family:"docs-Be Vietnam Pro";font-size:14.6667px"><u><b>Who Can Apply?<br></b></u>Students who currently live in the state of Ohio who are enrolled in, OR, recently accepted to an ALA-accredited MLS program are eligible to apply. The goal of our scholarship is to help diversify the field of librarianship, and so we look for applicants with diverse identities, including, but not limited to: race/ethnicity, dis/ability, sexual orientation, class, etc. </p><p dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom:0px;color:rgb(32,33,36);font-family:"docs-Be Vietnam Pro";font-size:14.6667px"><u><b>Timeline</b></u></p><b style="color:rgb(32,33,36);font-family:"docs-Be Vietnam Pro";font-size:14.6667px"><div><div style="font-weight:400">Applications will be accepted from January 1st to March 31st. Winners of the scholarship award will be notified by the end of April. </div></div><div style="font-weight:400"><br></div><u>Application Process</u></b><br style="color:rgb(32,33,36);font-family:"docs-Be Vietnam Pro";font-size:14.6667px"><span style="color:rgb(32,33,36);font-family:"docs-Be Vietnam Pro";font-size:14.6667px">The application consists of four sections:</span><br style="color:rgb(32,33,36);font-family:"docs-Be Vietnam Pro";font-size:14.6667px"><ol style="color:rgb(32,33,36);font-family:"docs-Be Vietnam Pro";font-size:14.6667px"><li style="margin-left:15px">Personal Information.</li><li style="margin-left:15px">School Information</li><li style="margin-left:15px">Demographic Information</li><li style="margin-left:15px">Essay Question</li></ol><div><font color="#202124" face="docs-Be Vietnam Pro"><span style="font-size:14.6667px">All applications must be submitted through this <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSce8uuAuhJOcwlKuEU2ScqdvX2OEYr7DkBrdEgMXPlC6BzllA/viewform" target="_blank">Google form</a>.</span></font></div><div><font color="#202124" face="docs-Be Vietnam Pro"><span style="font-size:14.6667px"><br></span></font></div><br clear="all"></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><table style="color:rgb(80,0,80);border:none;border-collapse:collapse"><tbody><tr style="height:105.75pt"><td style="border-width:1pt;border-style:solid;border-color:rgb(255,255,255);vertical-align:top;padding:5pt;overflow:hidden"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><a href="http://miamioh.edu/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);font-family:Arial;font-size:14.6667px;white-space:pre-wrap" target="_blank"><img src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/XJ5DMP6umr5RXMwwfFxywBX-JWsf-WNO39lXVO_domBk1a31KpJbIP67S7iE696m7zJdc0E-5gkkVN9LmVeJmxZ3aXNXnONxaFSZi-fX8Kmv1mjcV2dETLlXyxGzYYjwYAw9pcaM" width="96" height="80" style="margin-left:0px;margin-top:0px"></a><br></p></td><td style="border-width:1pt;border-style:solid;border-color:rgb(255,255,255);vertical-align:top;padding:5pt;overflow:hidden"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(204,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><b>Candace Pine (she/her)</b></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font color="#000000" face="Arial"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"><i>Rare Books and Manuscripts Librarian</i></span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><b>Miami University</b></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font color="#000000" face="Arial"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">King Library</span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="Arial" color="#000000"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">151 S. Campus Ave.</span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="Arial" color="#000000"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">Oxford, OH 45056</span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:1pt"><span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">513-529-2594 | </span></span><font color="#000000" face="Arial"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"><a href="https://spec.lib.miamioh.edu/home/" target="_blank">https://spec.lib.miamioh.edu/home/</a> </span></font><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-weight:700;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span></p></td></tr></tbody></table><i style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:arial,sans-serif">Miami University is located within the traditional homelands of the Myaamia and Shawnee people, who along with other indigenous groups ceded these lands to the United States in the first Treaty of Greenville in 1795. The Miami people, whose name our university carries, were forcibly removed from these homelands in 1846.</i><br></div><div dir="ltr"><div> <br><br><br><br><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>