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The scholarship will cover conference registration and hotel accommodations up front to scholarship awardees. Other incidentals like travel and meals may be reimbursed based on the amount awarded. Reimbursement will be managed independently at the conference. Pairing up housing with other scholarship awardees or conference attendees may also be accommodated. Please contact code4libaward@gmail.com with any questions about this arrangement. We want to ensure that financial issues do not discourage anyone from applying to this award. The scholarship committee will notify all applicants by '''January 1723, 2023''' regardless of award results.

'''Eligibility (100 words)''' Please discuss your eligibility for a diversity scholarship. Eligibility Criteria: An applicant must be a member of a group not well-represented within the code4lib community, including but not limited to: women, people of color, LGBTQ+, ability/disability, non-binary gender identities, etc. We also invite applications from members of underrepresented and/or marginalized groups that don't fit into the categories listed above. *<br>

'''Financial need (100 words)''' Please explain your current personal circumstances that support a need for this scholarship. For example, lack of travel funding from your workplace, limited salary, currently unemployed/unaffiliated, etc. *<br>

'''Conference and Community Participation (200 -300 words)'''Please describe how you would benefit attending this year’s conference. This may include, for example, what you are looking forward to in the conference, how it may meet your professional goals, or how you may participate in the conference and/or the Code4Lib community.*<br>