Stipends.  The more expedient program of the Grace and Harold Sewell Memorial Fund, reaching a greater number of librarian/information specialists in terms of total individual impact and susceptible to immediate implementation is the Stipend Program for librarians and information specialists to attend the national professional meetings of their clients.  The initial fund President, Winifred Sewell, had already had five years of experience with these activities through supplying stipends to librarian attendees at the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy (AACP) meetings and providing such stipends to librarians/information professionals for attendance at the American Public Health Association (APHA).

The first distribution of stipends from the fund took place in November 2001, and have continued annually.  Criteria for eligibility were established in cooperation with key members of the two associations. In the future, criteria for awarding stipends will be determined by committees of the appropriate professional organizations. Later, stipends may be awarded for attendance at other client organizations, particularly in the area of biological sciences.

Applications for the stipends are handled by the corresponding organizations.  For information on stipends for the AACP meetings: click here.

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Librarians should identify with their clients rather than look at clients’ needs merely intellectually from the library/information services perspective.