Personal Information

1. Name:

2. Job Title/Position:

3. Name of Employer:

4. Work Address:

5. Telephone Number:

6. Fax Number:

7. E-mail Address:

Professional Information

8. Please describe the law and/or legal information responsibilities of your position:

9. List your memberships and participation in professional associations:

10. List all legal and library-related professional conferences, seminars, and/or trainings you have attended.  Please include the name, sponsoring organization, location, length, and date of conference, seminar, training, etc.

FCIL Schaffer Grant for Foreign Law Librarians (please limit your answers to the space provided)

11. What are your reasons for applying for the FCIL Schaffer Grant for Foreign Law Librarians and what do you hope to gain from attending the AALL Annual Meeting?

12. The grant recipient will be asked to give a presentation or be part of a panel at the AALL Annual Meeting. If you are selected, what would your topic be?  Please provide a brief description and/or outline of your presentation.

13. Upon your return home after attending the AALL Annual Meeting, how will you share what you have learned or otherwise contribute to the education of your colleagues at home?

14. Other than this grant, will you have additional personal or professional funds to attend the AALL Annual Meeting if you are selected?  Please explain briefly.

Professional Reference

15. Please provide the name, title, telephone number and e-mail address of a professional colleague (English-speaking preferred) we may contact about your application and who can speak in detail to your professional qualifications and activities.  Please explain briefly your relation to this colleague:

Name:

Title:

Telephone Number:

Email Address:

How do you know this colleague?

Resume or Curriculum Vitae

16. Please attach a résumé or curriculum vitae in English to this application.

Agreement

Your signature below and submission of this application constitutes your agreement to the following:

If I receive the FCIL Schaffer Grant for Foreign Law Librarians, I will help to educate law librarians at the 2012 AALL Annual Meeting by actively participating in an FCIL-SIS program committee or Interest Group meeting, or by sharing knowledge in another manner as discussed with the AALL FCIL Schaffer Grant For Foreign Law Librarians Committee.  I also agree to write a report for the FCIL-SIS newsletter following the 2012 AALL Annual Meeting.  I also agree to share the knowledge I acquire at the 2012 AALL Annual Meeting with my colleagues at home.

If I receive the FCIL Schaffer Grant for Foreign Law Librarians and am ultimately unable to attend the AALL Annual Meeting, I will return the money to the Chair of the AALL FCIL Schaffer Grant For Foreign Law Librarians Committee.

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Applicant’s signature (typed or hand-written)