Fritz Schwartz Scholarship (NASIG/SISAC) (Dibbie Sibley) Marcia Tuttle 29 Dec 1997 19:18 UTC
---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 29 Dec 1997 14:14:22 -0500 From: Debbie Sibley <dsibley@LIBRARY.UMMED.EDU> Subject: Fritz Schwartz Scholarship (NASIG/SISAC) Fritz Schwartz Serials Education Scholarship: sponsored by NASIG and SISAC A $2,500.00 scholarship is awarded annually by the North American Serials Interest Group and the Serials Industry Systems Advisory Committee to a student who shows excellence in scholarship and potential for accomplishment in a serials career. The scholarship recipient will receive a Student Grant award to attend the NASIG conference for the year the scholarship is granted and one year memberships in NASIG and SISAC. Eligibility requirements for the scholarship: * The applicant must be entering an ALA-accredited graduate library program or, must have completed no more than twelve hours of academic requirements of the graduate program at the start of the scholarship. * The applicant must have serials-related work experience. The following materials are required by the applicant and must be received by March 1, 1998: * A completed application form. * Letters of reference from two information professionals. * A resume or curriculum vita. * A statement of the applicant's career objectives (not to exceed 250 words). * A statement on the applicant's qualifications as they apply to the award (not to exceed 250 words). The award winner will be required to be enrolled in a minimum of six credit hours of library/information science courses per semester/quarter during the academic year that the award is granted. The award winner will be ineligible to reapply for the scholarship. Only one scholarship will be awarded per academic year. For applications or further information contact: Please return completed application and all related materials to: Debbie Sibley, Deputy Director The Lamar Soutter Library University of Massachusetts Medical Center 55 Lake Ave. North Worcester, MA 01655 Phone: (508) 856-2435 Fax: (508) 856-5899 E-mail: dsibley@library.ummed.edu Fritz Schwartz Biography Frederick E. "Fritz" Schwartz was a tireless proponent of standard electronic data interchange (EDI) in the serials publishing industry. His firmly-held beliefs regarding the conduct of business in the industry received widespread support. He actively participated in international, national, and industry groups that sought to automate the exchange of business documents in standard machine-readable formats. Among these groups were ALA, ANSI ASC X12, ICEDIS, ISO, NASIG, NISO, and SISAC. Fritz received his bachelor's degree in anthropology from the University of Pennsylvania, and worked as a para-professional in the library system there before taking his master's degree from Drexel. During his career he held management positions at CLSI and the Faxon Company, and was well known for his creative presentations at conferences in the library and publishing communities. Fritz was interested in serials automation in general, and was intrigued by the possibilities the Internet offered. A multi-faceted person, Fritz was a voracious reader, a critical thinker, someone who studied society. He was an author, a teacher, and a magnanimous colleague. We remember him as a connoisseur of the life of the mind and the spirit. Fritz Schwartz passed away in November 1995. His energetic character is remembered through this joint NASIG/SISAC memorial.