Every year SIBA earmarks over $10,000 for scholarships and grants for bookseller development. Most of those are given to help booksellers who plan to attend SIBA's annual conference. In fact, seven out of the eleven scholarships and grants currently available to SIBA bookstores are specifically linked to the 2024 New Voices New Rooms (NVNR) conference in Arlington, Virginia the week of August 8-11, 2024.

This also includes the newly established BIPOC Bookseller Development Scholarship, created with the generous support of Ingram Content Group. This scholarship will award four booksellers $500 plus an all pass ticket to NVNR 2024.

To help booksellers keep track of available scholarships and grants and their application deadlines, SIBA has added a calendar to the website, Booksellers can click on a date to see information and an application link for each scholarship. Note that most of the scholarship applications have deadlines in May:

Binc Annual Conference Scholarship 5/15
George Keating Memorial Scholarship 5/15
BIPOC Booksellers Development Scholarship 5/17
NVNR Travel Grants 5/17
Jamie Rogers Southern Scholarship 5/17
Macmillan Bookseller Professional Development Scholarship: 5/20
Wanda Jewell Scholarship for Bookseller Development 6/15

See more info on SIBA's Scholarships and Grants page.