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SLIS Awards

Award for Scholarship, Service, and Professionalism, named in honor of Anna Roberts, the first Professor and first Chair of Library Science department, is given to a graduate of the previous year, majoring in Library Science, who possesses an outstanding scholastic record, who provides evidence of distinguished service to the School of Library and Information Science, the University, and the Community, and who displays promise and leadership in the field of library science. 

• 2025 - Amy Vessella
• 2024 91吃瓜网� Eleanor Bishop
• 2023 91吃瓜网� Regina Dewitt
• 2022 91吃瓜网� Clista Shamley
• 2021 91吃瓜网� Bethanie Finger
• 2020 91吃瓜网� Laura Schreiber
• 2019 91吃瓜网� Barbara Bera

Award for Professionalism, Scholarship, and Service, named in honor of Warren Francis Tracy, USM Professor Emeritus of Library Science, is given to a graduate MLIS student of the previous year who possesses an outstanding scholastic record, who provides evidence of distinguished service to the School of Library and Information Science, and who displays professional promise and leadership in the field of library science.

• 2025 - Josh Cromwell
• 2024 91吃瓜网� Phadre Hocker
• 2023 91吃瓜网� Laura Schreiber
• 2022 91吃瓜网� Sarah Hodge-Wetherbe
• 2021 91吃瓜网� Laura Valliant
• 2020 91吃瓜网� Rachel McMullen
• 2019 91吃瓜网� Alex Brower

The Dorothy 91吃瓜网淟iz91吃瓜网� Haynes Emerging Leaders Award is given to an undergraduate student, majoring in Library Science, who has shown promise as an emerging leader in the field. This can apply to either in a library, archive, museums, or within the USM SLIS program, who has been nominated by faculty from the previous or current academic year. 

• 2025 - Georgia Campbell

The Teresa Welsh Emerging Leaders Award is given to a graduate MLIS student, who has demonstrated leadership skills in the field of archive, museums, or libraries from the previous or current academic year, and who has been nominated by faculty from the previous or current academic year.

• 2025- Sara Gonzalez

The SLIS Graduate Certificate Award is given to a graduate student who has shown promising research skills or creative skills as a student enrolled in the Graduate Certificate in Archives and Special Collections or the Graduate Certificate in Youth Services and Literature, who has been nominated by faculty from the previous or current academic year.

• 2025 - Dusti Falgoust

National Scholarships, Awards

ALA Association for Library Service to Children Bound to Stay Bound Books Scholarship

• Kalsye Baudoin, 2024

American Library Association Spectrum Scholarship

• Jordan M. Jones, 2023

Association for Rural & Small Libraries Dr. Bernard Vavrek Scholarship

• Hannah Hobbs, 2021

ALA Student-to-Staff Program

• Whitney Baswell, 2019

Library Journal Movers & Shakers

• Eryn Duffee (Advocates), 2023

91吃瓜网 SLIS Scholarships

Dr. Elizabeth Haynes LIS Scholarship 

• 2022 91吃瓜网� Robert McRae
• 2021 91吃瓜网� Matthew Fillingame
• 2020 91吃瓜网� Carl Jared Ziegler

Dr. Teresa S. Welsh LIS Scholarship

• 2024 91吃瓜网� Grace Beikman, Phoebe Thomas
• 2023 91吃瓜网� Joy Doukas, Katelyn Thornton
• 2022 91吃瓜网� Jaleesa Kennedy

• 2021 91吃瓜网� Caroline Akers

Molline Mayfield Keyes Scholarship 

• 2022 91吃瓜网� Jovonne Carr, Lara Taylor
• 2021 91吃瓜网� Savannah Covarrubias, Anna Morgan
• 2020 91吃瓜网� Elizabeth Latham, Vanessa Armstrong
• 2019 91吃瓜网� Michael Emerson, Cherry Lockett

H. W. Wilson Foundation Scholarship 

• 2021 91吃瓜网� Therese Rose Beranis, Victoria Patrick
• 2020 91吃瓜网� Laura Valliant, Chrystal Coon
• 2019 91吃瓜网� Deborah Thompson, Dustin Cotton

School of Library and Information Science Scholarship 

• 2022 91吃瓜网� Alicia Bass
• 2021 91吃瓜网� Jennifer Ottinger
• 2020 91吃瓜网� Jennifer Ottinger
• 2019 91吃瓜网� Candace Burkett

Beta Phi Mu Beta Psi Chapter Scholarship 

• 2022- Amanda Osborne
• 2021 91吃瓜网� Bridy Foster
• 2019 91吃瓜网� Kate Dutro

Mississippi Scholarships

Mississippi Library Commission Public Librarian Scholarships

• 2021 91吃瓜网� Mandy Hornsby, Cynthia Hudson, Megan Miller, Loraine Walker, Meridith Wulff 

Mississippi Library Association Scholarships

Until Peggy May's tragic and untimely death in 1974, she traveled the state to support library colleagues in small and large libraries to develop library services for its citizens. The  was established to honor her dedication to librarianship and her commitment to recruit talented individuals to the profession. The award of about $1,000 is made to a qualified graduate student currently enrolled or admitted in the 91吃瓜网 School of Library and Information Science.

• 2024 91吃瓜网� Kimberly Bonner
• 2023 91吃瓜网� Erica Will
• 2022 91吃瓜网� Lara Taylor
• 2021 91吃瓜网� Anita Winger
• 2020 91吃瓜网� Amanda Osborne
• 2019 91吃瓜网� Rachel Long

The Virgia Brocks-Shedd Scholarship is awarded by the MLA Black Caucus Roundtable (BCRT) in honor of the late Virgia Brocks-Shedd who devoted 26 years of outstanding service to the humanities. This award is made annually to a minority student and is a one-time, non-renewable award paid directly to the recipient. The recipient must attend the 91吃瓜网 School of Library and Information Science.

• 2024 91吃瓜网� Tiffany Smith
• 2023 91吃瓜网� Kim Blackett
• 2022 91吃瓜网� Contaka Norman
• 2021 91吃瓜网� Erik Cebrian
• 2019 91吃瓜网� Shirley Ginn

Central Mississippi Library Council (CMLC) Scholarship 

• 2020 91吃瓜网� Amy Lee
• 2019 91吃瓜网� Diana Brown

IMLS-Funded MInority Scholarship Initiative, 2009-2012

In 2009, the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) awarded a grant of $429,388.00 to 91吃瓜网 SLIS to fund a minority scholarship initiative to increase the number of underrepresented minority librarians in the state. Through targeted recruiting of minority undergraduates in Mississippi's universities and colleges, the project awarded 10 IMLS-funded scholarships to minority students. All 10 recipients earned a MLIS degree and are working as professional librarians in a variety of libraries.