The awards and recipients of those awards on this page represent honors and funding opportunities that MLIS students from the VSU Program have received in recent years. For a more extensive list of scholarship opportunities, click here.

George Gaumond Award

(A non-monetary award to honor the student selected by the MLIS faculty as one who excels in scholarship and service to the profession)
2021 Matthew Yohn | 2020 Sarah Shelton Yawn | 2019 Amanda Addison Roper | 2018 Jennifer L. Putnam Davis |2017 Rosemary Humphrey, Ashley Lowery | 2016 Ashley Hoffman | 2015 Amanda Davis | 2014 Courtney Baron | 2013 Harikleia Sirmans |       2012 Kimberly Mears | 2011 Virginia Feher | 2010 Kathryn Leache | 2009 Kara Mullen | 2008 Sarah Hepler | 2007 Maria Terese Scheiderich | 2006 Wendy Wilmoth | 2005 Eva Waldrop

COEHS Dorothy Dewar Service Scholarship

2018 Regina Aaron | 2016 John Willard

Internal Scholarships

MLIS Merit Scholarship (pays e-tuition for one course; dependent upon funds and eligibility of students)
2021 Pamela Larsen | 2020 Margaret (Bruce) Hutt |2019 Alexander Thomerson and Jacquelyn Johnson | 2018 Jill Wagner, Marie Day, Marisa Guidara, Amber Gruszeczka, and Kristen Murphy | 2017 Jessica Robertson and John Wallace | 2016 Jeffrey Lofton | 2015 Kelly Hobby Wells and Pamela Johnson-Spurlock | 2014 Amanda Davis and Kristy Green | 2013 Crystal Vicente, Tarah Thomas, and Natalie Wright | 2012 Andrea Coston | 2010-2011 Sara Henderson, Marti Minor, and Brittany Emge

W. Wilson Scholarships

(funds award every three years to LIS schools by the H. W. Wilson Foundation; pays e-tuition for one course, final award from this fund was made in 2019)
2019 Ashley Johnson and Heather Martz | 2018 Jessica Haught, Lisa O’Donnell and Danielle Valenzano | 2017 Lisa Mosley, Linda Mercado, Kimberly Ottesen and Yolanda Bergstrom-Lynch| 2016 Lindsey Josey, Carlyn Morenus, and Megan Scopelliti | 2015 Katresa Gardner and Tia N. Morris | 2014 Asele Mack | 2013 Megan Stevenson | 2012 Nelson Fredsell | 2011 Sarah Benefield and Cynthia Holmberg

Baker Family MLIS Scholarship
2021 Greg McNamara | 2020 Jessica Varsa | 2019 Sarah Shelton Yawn | 2018 Chi Chia Yang | 2017 Dana Sharitt

Merryll Penson MLIS Scholarship Recipients

2021 Don Giacomini, Mikayla Kittilstved, and Ella B. Wilson | 2020 Sarah Brubaker, Noelle Zboray, and Kelly E. Williams| 2019 Ashli T. Wells and Chelsea Gentry

 SOLIS Grant for ALA Registration
2018 Jurée Hall | 2016 Kate Mathews | 2015 John Wallace and George Aiello | 2014 Micki Waldrop and Jana Waterreus

External Scholarships

ALA Awards and Scholarships

ALA Student-to-Staff Award

(joint subsidy by ALA and the MLIS Program for one student to participate in and contribute to activities at ALA’s annual conference)
2019 Heather A. Martz | 2018 Rosanne V. Guy | 2017 Jennifer Putnam | 2016 Jeanna Allums | 2015 Lily Kosmicki | 2014 Courtney Baron | 2013 Justin Nobles | 2012 Chelsea Kovalevskiy | 2011 Melissa Perez | 2010 Kimberly Mears | 2009 Mary Miller

Spectrum Scholarship

($5000 scholarship; awarded annually; sponsored by ALA)
2021 Talia Chaves and Sarah Rodgers | 2020 Charles Pratt IV | 2018 Jungwon DeVone | 2016 Yolanda M. Bergstrom-Lynch | 2015 Lynn Kendrick | 2012 Amanda Davis | 2008 Christine Jennifer Yontz-Orlando | 2006 Imani Warrick

ALA Emerging Leader
2020 Amanda Roper | 2019 Kathryn Greer | 2015 John "Mack" Freeman

Bound to Stay Bound Books Scholarship

2017 Megan Ashley Hoak | 2016 Marissa L. Guidara

American Association of Law Libraries Awards and Scholarship

The Southeastern Chapter of the AALL Scholarship

2019 Ashli T. Wells  | 2011 Tochie Blad

 

AALL Scholarship

2015 Elliot Kuechker

 

LexisNexis/John R. Johnson Memorial Scholarship

2015 Elliot Kuechker

 

The Southeast Chapter of the Art Libraries Society of North America (ARLIS/NA) Travel Award

2020 Chaundria M. Campos

State Library Associations Awards and Scholarships

Hubbard Scholarship

($3000 scholarship; awarded annually; sponsored by the Georgia Library Association) 
2020 Donald “Don” Giacomini | 2018 Sarah Brubaker | 2017 Amanda Roper | 2016 Katie Mitchell |2015 Rebecca Ballard | 2013 Asele Mack | 2011 Carol Waggoner-Angleton | 2010 Bonnie Moore | 2009 Amber Knight

 

Charles Beard Scholarship

(Two $1000 scholarships; awarded annually; sponsored by the Georgia Library Association) 
2020 Jessica Varsa | 2019 Sarah Rodgers | 2018 Amanda Baldowski | 2017 Heather Smith |2015 Karen Manning | 2014 Michael Kennedy | 2013 John "Mack" Freeman | 2012 Linda Cooks | 2010 Holly Phillips | 2009 Tiia Kunnapas | 2007 Miguel Vicente | 2006 Lori Lester

 

Georgia Library Association Paraprofessional Grants

(paid registration for the Georgia Council of Media Organizations conference and commemorative plaque).
2019 Michelle Colquitt | 2018 Rebecca Ballard and Kaitlin Dotson | 2015 Elizabeth McKinstry | 2013 Laura Veatch | 2012 Maryska Connelly-Brown and Harikleia Sirmans | 2010 Jennifer Duke

 

Georgia Library Association McJenkin-Rheay Award

2019 Eli Arnold | 2018 Ariel Turner

 

Georgia Library Association's Team Award

2015 Hyun Chu Kim, Ariel Turner and Jay Nicoletta

 

GLA-ALD Academic Research Paper competition

2020 Alex Thomerson and Lauren Jones | 2017 Jennifer Putnam

 

GHSLA Legacy Scholarship

2017 Erin Reardon | 2016 Denise Farley

 

GHSLA -NN/ML Award

2017 Terri Hatfield

 

Virginia Roanoke Valley Library Association Scholarship

2018 Kimberly Burnette-Dean

 

Ronald G. Bohley Scholarship (Missouri Library Association)

2016 Sergio Gonzalez

 

Rosalie Norris Scholarship (New Hampshire Library Association)

2015 Kathleen Hall

 

Gail Rogers Honorary Scholarship (Cobb Library Foundation, Marietta, GA)

2017 Rosanne Guy

 

Beta Phi Mu Blanche E. Woolls Scholarship for School Library Media Service

2018 Rebekah L Craig

 

Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Scholarships 

(a grant obtained from the Institute of Museum and Library Services through a joint effort by the Georgia Public Library Service and the VSU MLIS Program). 
First cohort of VSU MLIS candidates received the scholarships, Fall 2010.
Second cohort of VSU MLIS candidates received the scholarships, Spring 2011.
Third and final cohort of VSU MLIS candidates received the scholarships, Fall 2011.

 

Georgia Archives Institute, Sarah O. Dunaway Scholarship

2018 Kristina Lang

Internships and Fellowships

Stephen B. Thacker CDC Library Summer Internship

2017 Denise Farley

 

Library of Congress Junior Fellows

2016 Meghan Crews and Kailyn Middleton

 

CNN Internship

(paid internship offered periodically)
2016 Hayley Sheehy and Denise Farley | Fall 2012 Cynthia Barton | Fall 2009 Jennifer Duke

 

Lynda Crumley Memorial Internship 

(paid internship sponsored by the Friends of the Smyrna Public Library).
2013 William Brogdon | 2012 Stuart Temples | 2010 Sara Henderson | 2009 Michele Ewing

 

Emory Libraries Fellow (Emory Library, Atlanta, GA)

(Competitive, salaried two-year fellowship).
2012-2014 Bethany Nash 

 

Harold W. McGraw Fellow (Darien Library, Darien, CT)

(Est. in 2012 to fund a children's librarian at the Darien Library in Connecticut)

2012 Krishna Grady

 

J P Morgan Chase

(paid internship to fund imaging and indexing parts of the archives at the Martin Luther King Center, Summer 2011).
2011 Bethany Nash

 

Ringling Museum of Art Internship

(paid internship offered periodically; generally advertised in the spring for summer Summer 2010 Brittany Emge

 

Smithsonian Archives of American Art 

(paid internship offered periodically; generally advertised in the spring for summer positions; must locate to Washington, D.C.)
2009 Camille Brewer