Awards + Scholarships
SLIS Graduate Assistantships
SLIS awards three to four graduate assistantships each year. Recipients must be physically located in the Baton Rouge area and available to work 20 hours per week. The assistantships include a tuition remission and a stipend per fiscal year. Out-of-state students who are awarded a graduate assistantship are also granted a nonresident fee exemption.
SLIS Travel Awards
SLIS provides a limited number of awards to help to defray the costs of travel to conferences and other professional meetings. Information can be found at SLIS Travel Awards.
SLIS Scholarships
SLIS offers a number of scholarships each fall. The scholarships are simply listed below. The application for Fall 2018 scholarships will be posted here in August 2018.
Awards & Scholarships
Beta Zeta Scholarship
Robert D. and Barbara R. Biggs Graduate Student Award
Anna C. Burns Library and Information Science Fellowship
Ollie H. Burns Scholarship
Chevron MLIS Scholarship
Helen Margaret Yerger Dew Scholarship
Donald D. Foos Scholarship
Suzanne Hughes-Francis Scholarship
Friends of the Lafayette Parish Public Library Fellowship
Mary Marguerite Hanchey Memorial Fellowship
Jimmie Hartman Hoover Memorial Scholarship
Louisiana Library Association Trustees Section Fellowship
Lewis Mack Fellowship
Florrinell F. Mortin Scholarship
Richard W. Peck Scholarship
Agnes Corkern Sayers Endowed Fellowship
Dorothy Beckemeyer Skau Scholarship
John and Hester Slocum Fellowship
Sidone Lawrence Walker Scholarship
H.W. Wilson Scholarship
Nettie P. Wilson Scholarship