AMIA Broadening Perspectives Scholarship

As we have come to embrace that home movies are as important as theatrical releases, and that digital is a valid form of preservation, the archives field has grown by listening to such new ideas. By opening our community, we open our hearts and minds to a more diverse view of the world. A conversation inclusive of many voices helps us bridge communities and develop as individuals. The goal of this scholarship is to encourage participation in our community from voices that, for any number of reasons, may not have been heard, so that each of us and the AMIA may grow through Broadening Perspectives. Founded in 2022, this scholarship is funded by George Blood, L.P.

SCHOLARSHIP INFORMATION:

The $4,000 scholarship is flexible in its structure, with a minimum of $3,000 applied to tuition, but the option to apply $1,000 towards travel to the annual conference. The tuition funds are sent directly to the recipients' educational institutions to help cover the costs of tuition or registration fees. Funds applied towards travel to the annual conference can be applied to travel or lodging. Conference registration is included. Students from any country may apply.

The scholarship is open to all students who embrace new ideas or bring different voices to the archival field, and

• must be enrolled full or part time in a graduate-level or other advanced program in moving image studies or moving image production, library or information management as regards moving image, archival moving image studies, museum moving image studies or a related scientific or technical moving image discipline AMIA Broadening Perspectives Scholarship

; or must be accepted into such a program for the next academic year.

• The applicant must have a grade point average of at least 3.0 (on a 4.0 scale) in his/her current or most recently completed academic program Important factors in the selection of the scholarship recipients include: a student's commitment to pursuing a career in moving image archiving; commitment to a field that is inclusive of many voices; the quality of a student's academic record; and the strength of a student's program of study as it applies to moving image archiving.