The Digital Library Federation, the Association of Research Libraries, and Electronic Resources and Libraries have announced a fellowship program to help offset costs to attend the DLF Forum, to be held in Austin from November 4–6, 2013.

ARL/DLF Forum Fellowship for Underrepresented Groups
Five fellowships to promote diversity at the DLF Forum. Fellowships will provide up to $1,000 to cover travel costs. Registration to the Forum will be waived. To qualify for this scholarship, an applicant must be interested in actively contributing to the DLF Forum and must be of Hispanic or Latino, Black or African-American, Asian, Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander, or American Indian or Alaskan Native descent.

ER&L and DLF Cross-Pollinator Travel Awards
The purpose of these two grants is to extend the opportunity to attend the DLF Forum to two library professionals who would not typically go to the Forum, but who can envision and articulate a connection with their work and who see great value in building a dynamic and diverse peer network. The travel grants include conference registration, air travel costs, and housing in Austin.

DLF Forum Fellowships for New Professionals
Four awards of up to $1,000 each to go toward the travel, registration, board, and lodging expenses for Library employees (faculty, librarians, or staff) at DLF member institutions who have been in the profession for 3 years or less and whose work is wholly or predominantly in some area of the digital library. Graduate and undergraduate student assistants at DLF member institutions who, although only working part-time, make a significant contribution to a digital library endeavor and who may be considering a digital library career are also welcome to apply.

All applications are due September 6, 2013, and award notification will be sent by September 30.

The 2013 Digital Library Federation (DLF) Forum, to be held November 3–6, 2013 in Austin, Texas, is seeking “proposals for presentations, panel discussions, workshops, research updates, and hands-on, problem-solving sessions.” The DLF is seeking proposals that focus on the themes of digital technology design, management and assessment, data, and collaboration. Proposals should fit within the following genres:

• Presentations and Panels: Traditional lecture format with question-and-answer sessions. Speakers are requested to use only half of the allocated time for the presentation, including how they wish to engage the DLF community in their work. The second half of the session should focus on conversations about next steps, engagement with the community, and clarification of points raised during the presentation.
• Workshops:
 In-depth, hands-on training about a tool, technique, workflow, etc. You can recommend a topic or trainer, or you can volunteer to share your own expertise.
• Research Updates: An opportunity for those working in digital collections research to present their preliminary findings for community feedback and discussion.
• Working Sessions: 
Creative problem solvers, including project managers, developers, and/or administrators, gather to address a specific problem. This does not have to be a computational problem. The approach can be applied to workflow issues, metadata transformations, or other complex problems that would benefit from a collective, dynamic solution approach.
• Community Idea Exchange: A modified poster session. Presenters will have the opportunity to interact with Forum participants to discuss their current research projects, and/or demonstrate tools or services they have developed or are using in their digital library environment. Demos must include a poster element.

Deadline is June 28.