Call for Chemistry Division's Marion E. Sparks Award Svetlana Korolev Svetlana asked that the Bulletin include a call for the 2003 Marion E. Sparks Award for Professional Development sponsored by the Chemistry Division. For additional details, see http://www.sla.org/division/dche/2003/sparks.html. "The Chemistry Division … is sponsoring a student/new member scholarship essay competition in 2003. The award is named to honor Marion E. Sparks, a chemistry librarian at the University of Illinois from 1913 until her death in 1929. Ms. Sparks contributed a great deal to the field of chemical information, her achievements include teaching courses on chemical information, and authoring and publishing what is argued to be the first book to formally address chemical literature and library instruction." The stipend was increased to $1500 in 2003 to enable attendance at the SLA Annual meeting in New York. The deadline for submission is March 15, 2003, essays will be judged by a panel of SLA Chemistry Division members, and the winner will be notified by April 10, 2003.
skorolev@gml.lib.uwm.edu
