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Vendor Partners: Student Travel Opportunities

Volume 53, Issue 3 —— Summer 2026

These are opportunities for students to apply for scholarships or stipends to attend various ASIS&T or PAM-related events, from our vendor partners. Thank you to all who shared!

AAAS/Science: The Science prizes and awards program and Science Careers resources provide librarians with valuable tools to support faculty, postdocs, and students throughout the research lifecycle. From prestigious awards that recognize emerging scientific talent to free career-development resources and global job opportunities, these programs help advance researcher success, strengthen institutional reputation, and enhance the library’s role as a strategic partner in scholarly and professional development.

AIP: AIP’s Student Opportunities

SIAM: Programs and Student Resources

SPIE: SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, supports students in becoming changemakers by providing access to global networks and high-quality technical and professional resources. Committed to advancing students’ academic journeys in optics, photonics, and related fields, SPIE offers reduced membership fees along with a range of funding opportunities, including student conference support to attend and present research at SPIE conferences, educational scholarships, and grants such as the Outreach Grant and Student Chapter Activity Grant. Student members also benefit from exclusive networking events, community-building resources, and discounted access to the SPIE Digital Library, including reduced download and publication costs. For more information about these and other SPIE student resources, visit spie.org/students.

Industry Partners Roundtable Report

As one of the last sessions of the SLA 2025 Annual Conference, Industry Partners capped off a weekend of highly successful PAMily content. The theme, “Publishers and The Evolving Scholarly Ecosystem”, was developed in concert by moderators Sandy Avila (SPIE Publishing) and Emma Moore (Institute for Advanced Study). They were fortunate to recruit a great panel of speakers: Kivmars Bowling, of SIAM; Ruth Esehak-Gillespie of APS; Susan Pastore, of AIP; and Tyler Kane, of AMS. The session itself was structured around three main themes: Responsibility, Credibility, Sustainability. There was a great mix of prompts from the moderators, questions from the audience, and riffing between the panelists themselves. Like many sessions at Annual, a critical approach to the opportunities and pitfalls of LLMS and AI was threaded through the discussion. Each panelist discussed both what their organizations were doing internally to maintain credibility in particular, as well as industry-wide partnerships and initiatives. The last part of the session, called Quo Vadis?, discussed the future state of SLA and the PAM Community, as well as the potential embodied in the proposed merger with ASIS&T.

Emma Moore & Sandy Avila
PAM Industry Partners Roundtable Moderators