FCIL-SIS Now Accepting Applications for the 2011 FCIL Schaffer Grant for Foreign Law Librarians

The Foreign, Comparative and International Law-Special Interest Section (FCIL-SIS) of the American Association of Law Libraries is now accepting applications for the 2011 FCIL Schaffer Grant for Foreign Law Librarians. The FCIL Schaffer Grant for the http://www.aallnet.org/events/ in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (July 23-26, 2011), provides a waiver of the AALL Annual Meeting full registration fee and a grant of a minimum $2,000 to assist with accommodations and travel costs.

Applicants must be law librarians or other professionals working in the legal information field, currently employed in countries other than the United States, and with significant responsibility for the organization, preservation, or provision of legal information. The application deadline is March 1, 2011. The Grant Committee will not consider late or incomplete applications.

Details regarding the FCIL Schaffer Grant for Foreign Law Librarians as well as the application form can be found at: http://www.aallnet.org/sis/fcilsis/grants.html

Please feel free to contact the 2011 FCIL Schaffer Grant for Foreign Law Librarians Selection Committee Chair, Teresa Miguel at teresa.miguel(at)yale.edu or another committee member (Ms. Lucie Olejnikova, lolejnikova(at)law.pace.edu and Mr. Roy Sturgeon, rsturgeo(at)tulane.edu) if you have any questions about the 2011 FCIL Schaffer Grant for Foreign Law Librarians. [JH}