Second-year SLIS distance student Glendon wins two scholarships

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Ivey Glendon
"I am already able to implement many of the lessons learned in the program into my work,” said Ivey Glendon, a distance master's student who works at the Library of Congress and has won two significant scholarships this year.

Bob Branciforte

Ivey Glendon is a distance student in the School of Library & Information Studies master’s program who works as a digital conversion specialist in the Serial and Government Publications Division of the Library of Congress . And this year, she is also the winner of two significant scholarships.

In the early spring, Ivey received the 2010 Fritz Schwartz Serials Education Scholarship from the North American Serial Interest Group (NASIG). The scholarship, which includes a $3,000 scholarship and a travel grant for the NASIG annual conference, enabled Ivey to go to Palm Springs, Ca., in June and meet with other serials professionals and library and information studies (LIS) students.

In May, Ivey received the Ruth Fine Memorial Student Award  from the District of Columbia Library Association (DCLA). The award is a $6,000 interest-free loan, which is forgivable upon maintaining a 3.0 GPA. It is designed to assist LIS students who live or work in Washington, DC.

Ivey, who lives in Arlington, Va., and works in Washington, DC, is specializing in Leadership and Management in her second year of SLIS’ online Master’s Program in Library and Information Studies.

“I can’t think of a better way to work full-time and simultaneously pursue a graduate degree,” Ivey said. “I am really enjoying it and I am already able to implement many of the lessons learned in the program into my work.”

With a goal of pursuing a career in marketing library services, particularly focusing on digital libraries and collections, Ivey has been impressed by the diversity of viewpoints and experiences on the part of both faculty and students in the program.

“Many of my fellow students have strong backgrounds in public and academic libraries and their contributions to me have been invaluable as I try to learn as much as I can about libraries that are different than my own.”