From:
Peggy Johnson <m-john_at_umn.edu>
LRTS Request for Grant Proposals
Library Resources & Technical Services (LRTS) announces the availability
of grants of up to $1,000 (funded by an ALA Carnegie-Whitney 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, thereby allowing the author/s to concentrate on analyzing the
resources and writing the literature review. Possible tasks might be
collecting citations, sorting and organizing citations by themes and
categories, locating and gathering resources to be reviewed, verifying
citations, funding purchases of articles not owned by the home
institution of the author, and so forth. Funding also could provide a
mentoring opportunity by funding assistance by a library school or
information science student.
Highly cited, 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 2010-2011
* Serials literature published 2010-2011
Papers should be submitted not later than June 30, 2012. Grant
recipients will be required to submit progress reports to the LRTS
Editor twice a 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 January 31, 2011.
Applications and inquiries should be submitted to Peggy Johnson, LRTS
Editor, lrtseditor_at_ala.org <mailto:lrtseditor_at_ala.org>.
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Peggy Johnson, Associate University Librarian
Editor, Library Resources & Technical Services
Editor, Technicalities
University of Minnesota Libraries voice: 612-624-2312
499 Wilson Library fax: 612-626-9353
309 19th Ave. So. m-john_at_tc.umn.edu <mailto:m-john_at_tc.umn.edu>
Minneapolis MN 55455 http://www.lib.umn.edu/about/staff/peggy-johnson
Received on Thu Dec 09 2010 - 03:05:38 EST