| 2025 Travel Award Committee Larry Eames Martha Neth Alexander Watkins APPLICATIONS To apply for the award, please fill out the form found here. It will ask for the following pieces of information: Estimate of conference expenses and amount of applicant’s institutional funding. Resume or CV listing employment history, educational background, and professional activities. Include preferred e-mail address. Statement of Interest & Impact addressing relevant eligibility and award criteria. Include a description of interest, expectations of the conference, and its relevance to the applicant’s professional development. LIST OF PAST RECIPIENTS |
Applications for 2025 Open
The Mountain West Chapter of ARLIS/NA (Art Libraries Society of North America) is pleased to invite applications for the Winberta Yao Travel Award. The recipient(s) of the Winberta Yao Travel Award will receive funding toward attending the 53rd annual conference hosted virtually May 12-16. This year we can fund registration for three people.
NOTE: Applicants must be current members of ARLIS/NA-MW and ARLIS/NA and live in the Mountain West region (Arizona, Colorado, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming).
For further details, please visit the conference website: https://www.arlisna.org/events/2025-53rd-annual-conference.
The Travel Award
This travel award was established in honor and recognition of Art Librarian Winberta Yao, a co-founder and the first president of ARLIS/AZ (Arizona). Winberta Yao worked at Arizona State University from 1975-1997, although her interest in forming a chapter of ARLIS began earlier, while she was working at the Phoenix Art Museum. ARLIS/AZ, established in 1975, became ARLIS/MW (Mountain West), when the states of Colorado, New Mexico, Nevada, Utah and Wyoming joined the chapter in 1997. Montana joined the chapter in 2003.
Purpose
To encourage chapter and conference participation by supporting travel expenses for attendance at the ARLIS/NA annual conference or the ARLIS/NA-MW annual conference. If, for any reason, the travel award is not granted for the ARLIS/NA conference, the call for applications will be reposted before the next ARLIS/NA-MW annual meeting.
Award amount
This award is dependent on Chapter member donations, and whatever additional amount the Winberta Yao Travel Award Committee, in discussion with the Chapter executive board, sees fit to add to the donations, each year.
Eligibility
Current ARLIS/NA-MW and ARLIS/NA member living in the Mountain West region including Arizona, Colorado, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming. Applicants must receive partial or no institutional funding toward ARLIS conference travel.
Award criteria
Preference is given to librarians and to students currently enrolled in or accepted into an accredited school of library and/or information science. Priority is also given to first-time attendees, and to those who are participating in the conference as a speaker, panel member, session moderator, session recorder, or ARLIS/NA committee member.
Conditions of the Award
Award winner must present on their experiences at a chapter “The Art of… Conversation” following the conference and serve on the next year’s travel award committee. Their presentation should include an account of the recipient’s experience at the conference and how the award helped their professional development. Award recipients are strongly encouraged to take future committee and leadership responsibilities in the Mountain West Chapter.
Guidelines approved by Mountain West Chapter membership, 11/12/09