Announcement: SSP Travel Grant Program

["Karen King" <KKing@nutrition.org>]

Hello: on behalf of the Society for Scholarly Publishing, I would 
like to forward information on the SSP Travel Grant program, 
which will be of interest to members of the Liblicense listserv:

Announcing: Travel Grants Sponsored by the Society for Scholarly 
Publishing. Application deadline is March 15, 2009.

Students and Early Career Professionals: apply for a travel grant 
to attend the Annual Meeting of the Society for Scholarly 
Publishing (SSP) in May, 2009.

Professional and Scholarly Publishers: support the development 
and growth of staff and colleagues in your organization by 
encouraging them to apply for a Society for Scholarly Publishing 
travel grant.

This travel grant program is designed to introduce students of 
publishing and information science, together with early career 
publishing professionals in the first three years of employment, 
to the many educational and networking opportunities available at 
the popular and informative SSP annual meeting.  The program 
includes several components that will help grant awardees 
optimize their experience. Awardees will be paired with mentors 
who hold senior management positions within SSP member 
organizations.  Mentors will help grantees plug into the 
educational and networking opportunities available at the Annual 
Conference.  Additionally, the Conference Program will offer 
several opportunities designed to engage those who are relatively 
new to the industry.

Successful applicants will be granted free registration at the 
Annual Meeting and will be eligible for re-imbursement of up to 
$1,000 for travel and lodging expenses incurred to attend the SSP 
annual meeting, to be held May 27-29 in the Marriott Baltimore 
Waterfront Hotel, Baltimore MD.

Applications must be completed online; application forms are 
available at http://www.sspnet.org.  The application deadline is 
March 15, 2009. Grant awardees will be selected and notified by 
March 31, 2009.  To find out more on what 2008's awardees gained 
from the experience, see: 
http://sspnet.org/News/2008_Travel_Grant_Winners_Say_T/news.aspx

The Society for Scholarly Publishing gratefully acknowledges the 
generous support provided by the sponsors of the Travel Grants 
program. If you are interested in sponsoring the 2009 grants 
please contact Audrey Melkin at audrey@atypon.com.  Sponsors of 
the 2008 awards included American Psychological Association, 
Aries Systems Inc., Crossref, Fry Communications, Inera, Reprints 
Desk Inc., Rockefeller University Press, Sage, and Systemslink.

About the Society for Scholarly Publishing: SSP is an 
international nonprofit professional association founded in 1978. 
SSP's objectives are to facilitate learning, communication, and 
the advancement of appropriate technologies among all those who 
are involved with scholarly communication. In addition to its 
annual meeting, SSP conducts the Top Management Roundtable, and 
educational seminars throughout the year. For more information on 
travel grants contact Will Wakeling at w.wakeling@neu.edu (tel. 
617.373.5001).

email: info@sspnet.org
phone: (303) 422-3914
web: http://www.sspnet.org

Sincerely,
Karen King