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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

• St. John's Division of Library & Information Science - Funding for 40 full scholarships for MLS students. Focus on engaging underserved children and their families and preparing students for employment in public libraries, school library media centers, and museums in the New York City metropolitan area. Designed with the working student in mind, this two-year, part-time scholarship program will offer evening, weekend, and online classes.

• American Library Association (ALA) Scholarships
  ALA awards over $300,000 in scholarships annually.
• ALA Spectrum Scholarships
  Scholarships to American Indian/Alaska Native, Asian, Black/African American, Hispanic/Latino or Native Hawaiian/Other Pacific Islander students. (Profiles of scholarship students)
• Federal Student Aid for Graduate & Professional Students
• Gates Millennial 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.
• Special Libraries Association Scholarships
• WebJunction listing of Grants & Scholarships
  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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