2015 Institute for Research Design in Librarianship (IRDL)
“IRDL not only set me on the path to producing and properly documenting
original research, but it set me up with a network of like-minded
Librarians who will help me achieve my goals.” — 2014 IRDL Scholar
The William H. Hannon Library has received a three-year grant from the
Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS) to offer a continuing
education opportunity for academic and research librarians. Each year 21
librarians will receive, at no cost to them, instruction in research
design and a full year of peer/mentor support to complete a research
project at their home institutions. The summer Institute for Research
Design in Librarianship (IRDL) workshop is supplemented with
pre-Institute learning activities and a personal learning network that
provides ongoing mentoring. The workshop will be held on the campus of
Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, California. For more
information about the project, including the project partners, the San
José State University School of Information and the Statewide California
Electronic Library Consortium (SCELC), please see the project website:
http://irdlonline.org.
The second workshop will be held on July 13-23, 2015, with arrival on
campus on Sunday, July 12, and departure on Friday, July 24.
We are now issuing a call for applications for the IRDL 2015. We are
seeking novice librarian researchers who are employed by academic
libraries or research libraries outside an academic setting in the
United States to participate in the Institute. Novice researchers
typically may have conducted research but have not yet had a
peer-reviewed article published as the primary author or had an
individual presentation accepted by a peer-reviewed conference. We
define “novice” broadly; if you feel that you would benefit from being
guided throughout the entire research design process, we encourage your
application. Librarians of all levels of professional experience are
welcome to apply.
We seek librarians with a passion for research and a desire to improve
their research skills. IRDL is designed to bring together all that the
literature tells us about the necessary conditions for librarians to
conduct valid and reliable research in an institutional setting. The
cohort will be chosen from a selective submission process, with an
emphasis on enthusiasm for research and diversity from a variety of
perspectives, including ethnicity and type and size of library.
The Advisory Board, comprised of librarians with research experience in
a variety of settings, will use an open review process to select
participants who will travel to Los Angeles, California, participate in
all Institute activities, and conduct a research project during the
2015-2016 academic year. The online application requires a proposed
research project that will be revised at the workshop and will be the
basis for the study to be completed in the coming year.
Selection criteria:
· Commitment to the year-long process of communicating with other
participants and conducting the proposed study;
· Significance of the research problem to the operational success of the
applicant’s library or to the profession of librarianship;
· Thoughtfulness, thoroughness, and clarity of the research proposal;
· Enthusiasm for research and a desire to learn.
We will be accepting applications from December 1, 2014 to February 1, 2015.
Scholars accepted to the Institute will be notified in mid-April, 2015.
Please contact Project Directors with any questions about the Institute
or the application process:
Kristine Brancolini, Dean of the Library, Loyola Marymount University
brancoli_at_lmu.edu
Marie Kennedy, Serials & Electronic Resources Librarian, Loyola
Marymount University
marie.kennedy_at_lmu.edu
<http://m.lib.uci.edu/>
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