The Sustainability round table of ALA will award 15 scholarships to student members graduating in 2022, to pay for one year’s membership in ALA and SustainRT. The deadline for applications is June 17, 2022, midnight CST.

Application essay (text box below):
Please share your response of how you engage with sustainability, any specific goals you envision with sustainability and how you envision being involved with SustainRT.

In addition, the American Library Association recognizes that equity, diversity and inclusion impacts all aspects of work among members of the Association, within the field of librarianship, and within the communities served by libraries. This work includes addressing, dismantling, and transforming policies, structures, and biases throughout the organization and the field of librarianship. ALA, through its actions and those of its members, is instrumental in creating amore equitable, diverse and inclusive society: https://www.ala.org/aboutala/sites/ala.org.aboutala/files/content/governance/council/council_documents/2017_mw_council_documents/cd_35_2_Strategic%20Direction_Equity%20Diversity%20and%20Inclusion_FINAL.pdf. The SustainRT mission is to exchange ideas and opportunities regarding sustainability in order to move toward a more equitable, healthy, and economically viable society: https://www.ala.org/rt/sustainrt/about-sustainrt. How would you incorporate this into your work with SustainRT?

Total word count: approximately 200-500 words.

Questions:
Contact any SustainRT Membership Committee member: https://www.ala.org/rt/sustainrt/membership (you must be logged into ALA to view email addresses).