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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.