Fellowships
This year, the Digital Library Federation was thrilled to offer five separate fellowship programs for attendees to our annual DLF Forum. The generosity of our sponsors, partners, and member organizations will make it possible for the following 15 deserving awardees to attend the 2015 DLF Forum in Vancouver, British Columbia, October 26–28.
ARL + DLF Fellows from Underrepresented Groups
This fellowship is for digital library, museum, or archive practitioners from traditionally underrepresented groups including, but not limited to, people of Hispanic or Latino, Black or African-American, Asian, Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander, or American Indian or Alaskan Native descent.
Jasmine Jones
Metadata and Technical Services Archivist
Smith College
@jmjones27
Shanée Yvette Murrain
Seminary Archivist, Bishop Reverdy C. Ransom Memorial Library
Payne Theological Seminary
Shaneemurrain.blogspot.com
T-Kay Sangwand
Archivist for Human Rights Documentation Initiative | Librarian for Brazilian Studies at Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection, University of Texas at Austin
@tttkay
Yasmeen Shorish
Physical & Life Sciences Librarian and Assistant Professor
James Madison University
@yasmeen_azadi
https://staffweb.lib.jmu.edu/users/shorisyl
Learn more about the ARL + DLF Fellows from Underrepresented Groups.
DLF + ER&L Cross-Pollinator Travel Award Fellows
The goal of these travel awards is to bring cross-pollinators from the ER&L community—library professionals who can provide unique perspectives to our work and share a vision of the library world from their perspective—to the conference.
Kelsey Brett
Discovery Systems Librarian
University of Houston Libraries
Jonathan Shank
Acquisitions and Electronic Resources Librarian
Northwestern University@ShankLib | http://galter.northwestern.edu/
Learn more about the DLF + ER&L Cross-Pollinator Travel Award Fellows.
DLF Forum Museum Cross-Pollinators
This fellowship is for practicing museum professionals seeking more exposure on the trends in digital libraries.
Sumitra Duncan
New York Art Resources Consortium (NYARC) Web Archiving Coordinator
Frick Art Reference Library
@artlibrariannyc
Neil Sreenan
Manager, Digital Asset Systems
Dallas Museum of Art
@nsreenan | neilsreenan.com
Bojana Vidović
Librarian
National Museum Zrenjanin, Serbia
Scott Williams
Data & Database Administrator
Yale University Art Gallery
@moltude | http://moltude.com
Learn more about the DLF Forum Museum Cross-Pollinators.
DLF Forum Students and New Professionals Fellows
These fellows are newcomers to the profession and students at DLF member institutions whose work relates to digital libraries.
Celia Emmelhainz
Social Sciences Data Librarian
Colby College
@celiemme | databrarians.org
Angela Galvan
Digital Resources and Systems Librarian
SUNY Geneseo
@galvan_as | http://galvan.github.io/
Christine Malinowski
Fellow for Research Data Management
MIT Libraries | @ChrisMalinow
Hannivett Nabahe
Graduate Student
School of Information at the University of Arizona
@hnabahe
Learn more about the DLF Forum Students and New Professionals Fellows.
VRA + DLF Cross-Pollinator Travel Grant Fellow
This grant extends the opportunity to attend the DLF Forum to a visual resources professional who would not typically go to the Forum, but who can envision and articulate a connection with their work and who sees great value in building a dynamic and diverse peer network.
Andrea Schuler
Visual Resources Librarian for Islamic Architecture
Aga Khan Documentation Center, MIT Libraries
Learn more about this year's VRA + DLF Cross-Pollinator Travel Grant Fellow.
Our Sponsors
Thank you to our generous sponsors for making these fellowships possible.
