The winners of the 2019 Beta Phi Mu scholarships and awards were announced at the BPM Business Meeting and Member reception held in conjunction with the American Library Annual Conference in Washington, DC. For complete information about all of the awards and winners, see the official press release.

​Congratulations to all!

Beta Phi Mu's Annual Business Meeting and Member Reception will take place in conjunction with the American Library Association Annual Conference in Washington, D.C., on Saturday, June 22, 2019 from 2:00-4:00pm, Marriott Marquis, Salon 12. For more information, see the 2019 Events page.

The Beta Phi Mu Award will be presented at the ALA President's Awards Ceremony on Sunday, June 23, 2019 from 3:00-3:30pm at the Washington Convention Center, Ballroom B/C. This year we are happy to announce that the Beta Phi Mu Award will be presented to Dr. Mirah J. Dow of Emporia State University!

A new edition of The Pipeline, Beta Phi Mu's semi-annual newsletter, is now available! Check it out in the Newsletter section, under "Publications" on our website. We'd also like to say a special "Welcome!" to our new newsletter editor, Kirsten Lorenzen! We're excited about the new look that Kirsten has brought to The Pipeline and hope that you like it, too!

Beta Phi Mu members, please participate in our 2019 election! We'll be electing a new Vice President/President Elect and a new Director-at-Large for our organization. Go to the 2019 ballot and cast your votes today! ​Polls close at midnight, Tuesday, June 4th.

Beta Phi Mu is pleased to announce the winners of the March, 2019 drawing for the ​​Frank B. Sessa Scholarships for Continuing Professional Education ​of Beta Phi Mu Members! The winners are:

• Joy Banks (Clarion University, At-Large)
• Anne Mlod (Syracuse University, Pi Lambda Sigma Chapter)
• Megan De Armond (Pratt Institute, Theta Chapter)
• Cristina Ramirez (Catholic University, Iota Chapter)
• Laura Litwer (University of South Carolina, Beta Omega Chapter)

Congratulations to all! Each of these winners will receive $150 toward the continuing education opportunity of their choice. Cristina Ramirez plans to use her award to take a Library Juice Academy course on "Creating an Oral History Project." Megan De Armond plans to do some online webinars or a Medical Library Association workshop to help further her career as a health sciences librarian. All recipients have one year to take advantage of their award.

Did you sign up for the Sessa lottery but didn't win this time? Not to worry -- you are still eligible for the September, 2019 lottery! If you haven't entered the lottery yet, you have until August 31, 2019 to do so. For more information or to register for the lottery, go to the Sessa Scholarships page at ​https://www.betaphimu.org/sessa.html 

Beta Phi Mu is seeking a volunteer newsletter editor for its twice-yearly electronic newsletter, The Pipeline. Duties include:

• Work with Beta Phi Mu headquarters staff to solicit and gather chapter news, officer reports, news items, and other content for the newsletter
• Integrate photographs and graphics
• Layout newsletters in a desktop publishing format to upload via the BPM website
• Initiate additional content ideas and creative design solutions

Could this be you? For more information, check out the newsletter editor call!

​The lottery for 2019 Frank B. Sessa Scholarships for Continuing Professional Education of Beta Phi Mu Members is now open! Beta Phi Mu members may register to be selected for one of ten $150 scholarships for a continuing education opportunity of their choice. Five winners will be selected at random in March and another five will be selected in September. 

​Many thanks to Library Juice Academy for sponsoring these awards!

Beta Phi Mu members, please go to the Sessa Scholarship page for more information about the award, to read the Sessa Scholarship Guidelines, and to access the link to register for the lottery!

The Beta Phi Mu International Library and Information Studies Honor Society (Beta Phi Mu) is pleased to announce our continued partnership with the Eugene Garfield Foundation to provide fellowships for LIS doctoral candidates in the dissertation-writing phase. Up to six awards of $3,000 each will be granted in the 2019/20 season.
To be eligible, the candidate must:

• Be working on their dissertations in Library and Information Science, Information Studies, Informatics, or a related field
• Be enrolled in a doctoral-level research program at an institution with ALA, CILIP, or other Beta Phi Mu Executive Board approved accreditation
• Have completed all requirements for advancement to candidacy; all requirements for degree except writing and defense of dissertation have been completed

Applicants do not need to be members of Beta Phi Mu to apply for this award. Applications are now being accepted—a  link to the application form is now available on the Beta Phi Mu website. All application materials must be submitted online by the March 15, 2019 deadline. Award announcements will be made at the Beta Phi Mu program at the ALA Annual Meeting in June, 2019. 

For more information, see: ​https://www.betaphimu.org/garfield.html 

The 2019 Beta Phi Mu Scholarship Season is now open! Applications are now being accepted for the following awards:

• The Sarah Rebecca Reed Scholarship of $2,250 for a student beginning library/information studies in an ALA-accredited school or other approved program
• The Blanche E. Woolls Scholarship for School Library Media Service of  $2,250 for a student beginning Library and Information Studies at an ALA-accredited school or an AASL-recognized school with the intention of pursuing a career in school library media service.
• The ​Harold Lancour Foreign Research Fellowship of $1,750 for a professional librarian pursuing a robust LIS-related research project to be conducted in a country outside of Canada/USA.

Links to applications for these awards are now available on the Beta Phi Mu website. All application materials must be submitted online by the March 15, 2019 deadline. Award announcement will be made at the Beta Phi Mu program at the ALA Annual Meeting in June. 

For more information on these awards, please visit the Scholarships page:  
https://www.betaphimu.org/scholarships.html