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I was so excited when Jeremy Frumkin announced this on the code4lib list.

Oregon State University / Code4lib Scholarship for Women

The OSU / Code4lib Scholarship for Women will provide up to $1000 to cover travel costs and conference fees for one qualified attendee to the 2007 Code4lib conference. This scholarship is eligible to any woman interested in attending the 2007 Code4lib conference.

Applications will be judged by the scholarship committee on a combination of merit and need.

To apply, please send an email to Jeremy.frumkin@oregonstate.edu with the following:

1) A brief letter of interest, including statement of need (also, please indicate your eligibility in the letter)
2) A resume
3) Contact information of two professional or academic references

Applications should be received no later than January 21, 2007.

The successful candidate will be contacted no later than January 30, 2007.

I’ve posted before about the problems I see in attracting and keeping women in systems librarianship. For me this scholarship is a great way to help women make their way in the field. If you want to attend code4lib and don’t have the support you need, please apply. It is a great conference and an opportunity to meet folks doing truly innovative things. The contact you will make will help tremendously in your job. I can’t even quantify how much meeting Terry, Jeremy, Dan, Ross, Mark, Kevin, and many more has helped me in my job the last year.

Via code4lib, Access and other conferences I’ve also met (in person and/or virtually) Bess, Winona, Dorothea, Meredith, and Colleen : women actively involved in systems librarianship and technology in libraries. It warms my heart beyond words to see the awesome things some of my female peers are working on. Get the scholarship, come to conference and let me intro you to the folks I know. You won’t regret it I promise.