Media and Technology Section
Updated: June 14, 2007
2007 MATS Scholarship
***Applications are now closed. Thank you!***
The Media and Technology Section (MATS) of the Wisconsin Library Association will be awarding one $250.00 scholarship to cover registration and/or lodging costs for the WLA conference in Green Bay, October 16-19, 2007.
The winner must be a MATS member. The winner will be required to attend as many MATS-sponsored sessions as possible, and write a conference summary for the Winter MATS newsletter.
The preliminary list of MATS-sponsored sessions at WLA is:
- MATS Business Meeting
- Webbies awards
- Net Neturality
- OPAL and Readers' Advisory (cosponsored by READ)
- Future of the OPAC (cosponsored by TSS)
- Librarian 2.0 (cosponsored by WAPL)
- New Media Ecology (cosponsored by WAPL)
Any MATS member interested in applying for the scholarship should send their name, contact information and a short statement about why they want to attend the conference to Nichole Fromm via
by August 15th September 14th, 2007.
The scholarship will be awarded by the members of the MATS board. Preference will be given to those who have not received this MATS scholarship in the past.
Good luck!
