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Scholarships & Funding

Scholarships, teaching and research assistantships and loans are the most common ways to finance your graduate study.

Take Action

• Contact the financial aid offices at the schools where you are applying.
• Review the scholarship and funding sources listed below.
• Check with your local library for additional scholarship and funding information.
• Check out federal loan possibilities.

Selected Scholarship and Funding Sources

• American Library Association (ALA) Scholarships
  ALA awards over $300,000 in scholarships annually.
• Federal Student Aid for Graduate & Professional Students
• Gates Millennium Scholarship Fund
  Provides funding to outstanding African American, American Indian/Alaska Natives, Asian Pacific Islander Americans, and Hispanic American students.
• Law Library Association of Greater New York Grants & Scholarships
• LITA (Library & Information Technology Association) Scholarships
• Medical Library Association Grants & Scholarships
• New York Library Association's Dewey Scholarship
  Tuition assistance for a student attending a New York State library school.
• Syracuse Univeristy I-School Library Media Specialist Scholarships
• WebJunction listing of Grants & Scholarships
  Downloadble spreadsheet of grants and scholarships currently available in the US and Canada for degree programs, courses, and professional development in library and information science.
• WebJunction and Drexel University Offer Discounts on Online Degree Programs

Articles on Funding Graduate School

• Getting Your LIS Degree without Breaking the Bank by Sarah E. Morris & Patrice Johnson (from LISCareer.com)
• Paying for Graduate School by Chrissie Anderson Peters (from LISCareer.com)
  
  

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