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Susan Grey Akers Scholarship Fund

The Alumni Association established the fund upon Dean Susan Grey Akers' retirement to provide a fellowship that assists deserving students admitted to the MSLS degree program and distinguished by evidence of professional promise, character, leadership and high scholastic achievement.

Akers was the first dean of SILS from 1932 to 1954, and she was the first female dean at UNC. Akers spearheaded the foundation of the library school at North Carolina Central University. She was noted for her work, Simple Library Cataloging. Akers maintained an interest in the School, its faculty and its students until her death in 1984 at the age of 95.

Students are eligible for financial aid by meeting the criteria identified for this fund and by answering "yes" to the financial aid section of the SILS supplemental application for admission. Awards are merit based, after admission to a program.

Lester Asheim Scholarship Fund

The fund was established upon the occasion of Professor Lester Asheim's retirement to support scholarship awards to SILS students distinguished by ability, as indicated by a sound scholastic record, demonstrable financial need and potential for making a positive professional contribution to the advancement of library and information services and research. First consideration is given to applicants pursuing a doctoral degree.

Asheim came to UNC in 1975 as the first William Rand Kenan Jr. Professor after a distinguished career as Dean of Chicago's Library School (1952-1961) and of the International Relations Office of the ALA (1962-1966). One of his most renowned articles is his argument for collection development titled “Not Censorship But Selection.”

Evelyn J. Bishop Scholarship Fund

Through a bequest in Evelyn J. Bishop's will, she created this scholarship fund to support a student admitted to the master's degree program at SILS. Bishop lived in Smithfield, NC, and worked at the Johnston County Public Library.

Lisa Burmeister Computer & Information Science Fellowship

Established in 1983, this fund supports a fellowship for a second-year graduate student at SILS. First consideration is given to students concentrating in information science. In 1985, Lisa Burmeister, one of SILS' first information science students, died suddenly of a stroke, and the fund was renamed to honor her memory.

Carnegie Foundation Library Science Endowment

Andrew Carnegie This gift from the Carnegie Corporation of New York established an endowment fund for the general support of SILS. Among other purposes, this fund is used to provide small grants to students for assistance with research costs associated with writing master's papers, research projects, dissertations or senior honors theses. Students are encouraged to apply.

Andrew Carnegie created the Corporation in 1911 to promote “the advancement and diffusion of knowledge and understanding.” The Corporation is a grant making foundation that seeks to carry out Carnegie's vision of philanthropy, which he said should aim “to do real and permanent good in this world.”

One of Carnegie's lifelong interests was establishing free public libraries to give everyone a means for self-education. From 1881 to 1917, he and the Corporation built 2,509 libraries throughout the English-speaking world. For about 40 years afterward, the Corporation continued an interest in improving library services.

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Carnegie Foundation Library Science Tuitional Fellowship

Andrew Carnegie The Library Science Tuitional Fellowship was established by the Carnegie Corporation of New York to support several tuition fellowships for SILS students each year.

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General Scholarship Fund

This fund is used to supplement other scholarship awards provided by SILS.

Edward G. Holley Student Research Fund

Edward G. Holley The fund provides student research awards, especially for expenses incurred for research on the master's thesis.

Edward G. Holley is a former SILS dean (1972-1985) and professor emeritus, specializing in history of the book and academic librarianship. During his tenure as dean, Holley implemented the doctoral program at SILS and the internship program with the EPA library, and provided the leadership for the master's program to grow from 36 to 48 credit hours in a time of decreasing resources. He was a William Rand Kenan professor and is the recipient of many of the field's awards, including the 1998 ALISE Award for Professional Contributions to Library and Information Science Education.

Students interested in research support from this fund should speak with their faculty advisor or Susan Thomas in the Administrative Office.

Michael Hooker Fellowship in Applied Networking

Michael Hooker The fund supports a fellowship for SILS graduate students studying the development and management of networked information systems and Internet networking technology.

This fellowship was established in 2000 in memory of the late Chancellor Michael Hooker. In January of 1999, Hooker was interested in support for students who would become the intellectual capital of Cisco Systems and contribute to the growth of the networking industry, especially in North Carolina. Selby Wellman, the former Cisco Systems executive, and Dean Joanne Marshall got together to discuss their ideas of partnering to realize Chancellor Hooker's technology vision. Although Hooker passed away later that same year, Cisco Systems and SILS were able to formalize the partnership in his honor by establishing an endowed graduate fellowship.

International Programs Fund

Mary L. Boone (MSLS '73) established this fund in 2003 in celebration of the 30th anniversary of her graduation to promote international programs at SILS.

Margaret Ellen Kalp Memorial Fellowship

Margaret Ellen Kalp The fund supports fellowships for SILS students. Master's students will be distinguished by evidence of professional promise and high scholastic achievement. First consideration will be given to students who indicate an interest in work with young people and children. A fellowship for doctoral study may be awarded to a student with a superior record, significant professional contributions and experience working with children and young people.

Margaret Ellen Kalp was acting dean of SILS from 1964 to 1967 and assistant dean from 1973 to 1976. Noted for her deep commitment to the School, Kalp showed equal dedication to the library profession through her work with numerous professional organizations and on numerous committees.

Kathleen McNiece Moore Fellowship in Children's Library Services

The fund supports a fellowship for a student admitted to the graduate program at SILS who has exhibited an interest in working with children and is firmly committed to the field of children's library services. Preference will be given to a student who has worked with children, especially in the storyteller's art.

This fellowship was established in memory of Kathleen McNiece Moore (MSLS '70) by her family “to perpetuate her concern for books, her love of children and her interest in the art of storytelling.”

Special Fellowship for Library Work with Children and Young Adults

This fellowship was established in 1982 by an anonymous donor to support a student admitted to the graduate program at SILS interested in working with children and young adults.

Marcia Tuttle Endowed Scholarship

Marcia Tuttle This endowment provides an academic scholarship to a graduate student at SILS. Preference is given to students with an interest in managing serials in an electronic environment.

Serials Solutions, Inc. of Seattle made the initial gift to endow a scholarship in honor of Marcia Tuttle, retired head of the UNC at Chapel Hill Academic Affairs Serials Department. “I am particularly proud that Serials Solutions could play a leadership role in establishing this endowment,” said company founder Peter McCracken (MSLS '95).

The scholarship recognizes Tuttle's dedication to education and mentoring. She had an international reputation for activism on behalf of library-publisher communication and fair serials pricing.

Louis Round Wilson Fellowship

Established by the Dean S. Edmonds Foundation, this fund awards an annual fellowship to a student admitted to the doctoral program at SILS in memory of Dr. Wilson, the founder of the School. The recipient is named the Louis Round Wilson Fellow.

In honoring Dr. Wilson's memory, we remember his enduring words from 1929:

“As part of the program of social welfare now being worked out at Chapel Hill, a library school is needed, where librarians, like lawyers and doctors and teachers, may secure expert professional training. With its magnificent new building as a laboratory for the school, such an institution would not only be in harmony with the program on which the University has embarked, it would offer opportunity through the sending out of trained librarians for the South to tap the vast reservoir of human knowledge.”

Tung-Li & Hui-Hsi Yuan Award

The Yuan family encourages leadership in the field of library and information science in China, including the People's Republic of China and the Republic of China (Taiwan). Preference for the award will be given to recipients who demonstrate a commitment to teaching or practicing librarianship in China and who are students of Chinese descent.

The family of the late Tung-Li and Hui-Hsi Yuan established an endowment fund in memory of their parents to provide an award to SILS students.

Tung-Li Yuan was a founder of the National Library of Beijing in 1929. Under his leadership, the library started using many Western innovations, including union catalogues, union lists of serials, interlibrary loan services and a printed card catalog based on the Library of Congress model. After relocating to the United States, Yuan worked at the Stanford Research Institute and the Library of Congress and continued to conduct research and write about China. Upon his death, individuals who paid tribute to Yuan included author Pearl S. Buck and Librarian of Congress L. Quincey Mumford.