{"id":22557,"date":"2025-08-05T10:22:18","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T15:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tsl.texas.gov\/slrm\/blog\/?p=22557"},"modified":"2025-08-05T10:22:58","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T15:22:58","slug":"tlaf-accepting-applications-for-scholarships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tsl.texas.gov\/slrm\/blog\/2025\/08\/tlaf-accepting-applications-for-scholarships\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Library and Archives Foundation Accepting Applications for $2,000 Scholarships for Library Science Students"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"432\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tsl.texas.gov\/slrm\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/tslac_wong-scholar-app25_sq.png\" alt=\"Graduation cap with announcement about scholarships\" class=\"wp-image-22558\" style=\"width:293px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tsl.texas.gov\/slrm\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/tslac_wong-scholar-app25_sq.png 432w, https:\/\/www.tsl.texas.gov\/slrm\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/tslac_wong-scholar-app25_sq-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.tsl.texas.gov\/slrm\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/tslac_wong-scholar-app25_sq-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.tsl.texas.gov\/slrm\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/tslac_wong-scholar-app25_sq-50x50.png 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 432px) 100vw, 432px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.txlaf.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Texas Library and Archives Foundation<\/a>\u00a0has announced its annual <a href=\"https:\/\/www.txlaf.org\/scholarship\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Martha Wong Scholarship<\/a> opportunity, as well as the new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.txlaf.org\/scholarship\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Mark Smith\u2013Gloria Meraz Scholarship<\/a>, for students in a Texas library\/information science or school library certification program. Both scholarships will award a reimbursable grant of $2,000 that may be used for tuition or required textbooks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Through these awards, the Foundation encourages Texans to pursue a degree from a Texas library\/information science graduate program or school library certification program. These scholarships have been generously funded by Dr. Martha Wong, Chair of the Texas State Library and Archives Commission. Funds will be used for the January 2026 semester. Eligible applicants must live in Texas or work in a Texas library and should have the intention of pursuing a professional library position in Texas after obtaining their degree.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For full grant details and to apply online, visit the Foundation\u2019s website at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.txlaf.org\/scholarship\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">www.txlaf.org\/scholarship<\/a>. The deadline to apply is 12:00 midnight (central) on September 15, 2025. Applicants will be notified by October 15. Questions may be emailed to\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:txlafinfo@tsl.texas.gov\">txlafinfo@tsl.texas.gov<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0Texas Library and Archives Foundation\u00a0has announced its annual Martha Wong Scholarship opportunity, as well as the new Mark Smith\u2013Gloria Meraz Scholarship, for students in a Texas library\/information science or school library certification program. Both scholarships will award a reimbursable grant of $2,000 that may be used for tuition or required textbooks. Through these awards, the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":200,"featured_media":19030,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[6,129,7,40],"class_list":["post-22557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-local","tag-records-management","tag-state","tag-training"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tsl.texas.gov\/slrm\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tsl.texas.gov\/slrm\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tsl.texas.gov\/slrm\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tsl.texas.gov\/slrm\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/200"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tsl.texas.gov\/slrm\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22557"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.tsl.texas.gov\/slrm\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22562,"href":"https:\/\/www.tsl.texas.gov\/slrm\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22557\/revisions\/22562"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tsl.texas.gov\/slrm\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tsl.texas.gov\/slrm\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tsl.texas.gov\/slrm\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tsl.texas.gov\/slrm\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}