LRTS Request for Grant Proposals
Library Resources & Technical Services (LRTS) announces the availability
of grants of up to $1,000 (funded by an Association for Library
Collections and Technical Services grant) to assist authors with
preparing literature reviews. The purpose of the grants is to provide
funds that will be used for clerical and research support, allowing the
author(s) to concentrate on analyzing the resources and writing the
literature review. Possible support tasks might be collecting citations,
sorting and organizing citations by themes and categories, locating and
gathering resources to be reviewed, verifying citations, or funding the
purchase of articles not owned by author's home institution. Funding
also could provide a mentoring opportunity by funding assistance by a
library school or information science student.
Literature reviews provide an essential professional service to
practitioners, scholars, and students by identifying the key themes and
the most important publications appearing in successive two year
periods. Books and articles by accredited scholars and researchers,
i.e., primarily peer-reviewed publications provide the basis for a
literature review. A good literature review is evaluative, selective,
and critical, and goes beyond summarizing and quoting from the selected
sources. Literature reviews explain why the sources cited are important
and valuable, may compare them to prior works, and create a structure
that organizes the two-year body of content to make it comprehensible
and to identify themes, not only for those who have followed the
developments it describes, but to future researchers. All sources
referenced appear in the endnotes; a separate bibliography is not
published. Although commissioned, LRTS literature reviews go through the
same double-blind peer review process as unsolicited manuscripts.
LRTS seeks authors for the following topical areas and coverage periods:
**Acquisitions literature published 2012-2013
**Serials literature published 2012-2013
Papers should be submitted no later than June 30, 2015. Grant recipients
will be required to submit progress reports to the LRTS Editor in June
and December each year.
The grant proposal must include:
1. Requester name, title, and contact information
2. The literature to be reviewed (see list above)
3. The requester’s credentials to write the literature review
4. Amount requested
5. Budget plan and rationale for how the funds will be expended
Proposals are due by March 17, 2014.
Applications and inquiries should be submitted to Mary Beth Weber, LRTS
Editor, lrtseditor_at_ala.org.
Mary Beth Weber, M.L.S.
Head, Central Technical Services
Rutgers University Libraries
47 Davidson Road
Piscataway, NJ 08854
848-445-0500 (phone)
732-445-5888 (fax)
mbfecko_at_rulmail.rutgers.edu
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