Two SIBA booksellers were among the recipients of professional development scholarships from the Book Industry Charitable Foundation (Binc) and its partners:

Krystle Dandridge of The Book Bar in Richmond, Virginia received a Macmillan Booksellers Professional Development Scholarship, which provides funds to booksellers traditionally underrepresented within the industry to attend their regional associations' fall trade show or gathering.

Rachel Ford of the Bookshop in Nashville, Tennessee is a recipient of the George Keating Memorial Scholarship, which provides $250 scholarships to a bookseller in the New Atlantic Independent Booksellers Association (NAIBA), Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance (SIBA), and New England Independent Booksellers Association (NEIBA) for the purpose of professional development. Ford used her scholarship to attend SIBA's in-person event in New Orleans this summer: “I was so grateful and excited to be awarded the George Keating Scholarship for SIBA territory. This event deepened my understanding of the bookselling industry and I appreciated learning best practices from other indie booksellers.”