Dunn & Wilson Scholarship

This award is no longer awarded...

This Award is now known as the Library Technician Award

The Dunn & Wilson Scholarship provides the recipient/s with an opportunity to undertake a particular project of relevance to the role of library technicians in the broad library and information profession. The scholarship proposal can be made by an individual financial library technician member or a group of financial library technician members.

The Scholarship is a biennial award of up to $5,000 (currently presented at the biennial library technicians conference) and is open to all financial Library Technician members of ALIA.

• Present the 'Dunn & Wilson Oration' at the ALIA Library Technicians Conference or equivalent event. The oration should include a report on the project, detailing the project's outcomes, benefits to the individual and the profession.
• Prepare a comprehensive scholarly report on their studies, suitable for publication as a journal article.
• Provide ALIA National Library Technicians Group Committee a six monthly report detailing the progress made since inception of the previous report, including reconciliation of expenses to date. The report will then be forwarded to the ALIA Research Committee for information.

In awarding the Dunn & Wilson Scholarship, ALIA reserves the right to make broad adjustments to the proposed project to ensure optimal relevance for the association and library technician roles and practices.

Nominations will be considered by a selection committee, which will include a representative of the ALIA Research Committee, for recommendation to the Board of Directors. Nominations close on 1 June 2007