Lazerow Award Applications

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Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2001
From: Lynda Clendenning (Univ. of Virginia) <lfc9k_at_virginia.edu>
Subject: Lazerow Award Applications

LAZEROW AWARD APPLICATION DEADLINE EXTENDED TO DEC. 17

Samuel Lazerow Fellowship For Research in Collections and Technical
Services in Academic and Research Libraries

Award:
$1,000 cash and a citation donated by the Institute for Scientific
Information.

Criteria:
The proposals will be judged with an emphasis on the following:

Potential significance of the project to acquisitions or technical
services work
Originality and creativity
Clarity and completeness of the proposal
Evidence of an interest in scholarship (previous publication record)

Application Procedure:
Brief proposals (five pages or less, double-spaced) should include the
following:

Description of research, travel, or writing project
Schedule for project
Estimate of expenses (e.g., travel, faxing, data analysis, computer time,
photocopying, typing)
An up-to-date curriculum vitae should accompany proposal

Submissions:
Send eight (8) copies of the application to:

Association of College and Research Libraries
Samuel Lazerow Fellowship
50 East Huron Street
Chicago, IL 60611.

Submission Deadline: December 3  ****(EXTENDED UNTIL DEC. 17)*****

Awardee Obligation: Recipients of the fellowship are required to
submit a report of the results of their research to the Association of
College and  Research Libraries (ACRL) for possible publication in
C&RL News.

Information & Assistance: If you have questions or need help in compiling
a nomination, please contact: Lynda Clendenning, Award Committee Chair at
170 Reas Ford Road, Earlysville, VA 22936, Phone: 804-924-6635,
Fax: 804-924-3143, Email: <mailto:lfc9k_at_virginia.edu or Stephanie Sherrod,
ACRL Awards Program Assistant, at (800) 545-2433, ext. 2515, (312)280-2515
or via e-mail at <mailto:ssherrod_at_ala.org   .

Samuel Lazerow led a distinguished career as a major contributor to the
advancement of information technology at the Library of Congress, the
National Library of Medicine, and the National Agriculture Library among
others. He ended his career as Senior Vice-president at the Institute for
Scientific Information.

This award fosters advances in collections or technical services by
providing
fellowships to librarians for travel or writing in those fields.  Research
projects in the compilation of bibliographies will not be supported by this
fellowship.

Sponsorship provided by: Institute for Scientific Information (ISI)

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