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 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, thereby
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, 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:
ąCollection Development and Management literature published 2011-2012
ąCataloging/Classification/Metadata Management literature published
2011-2012
ąPreservation and Reformatting literature published 2011-2012
Papers should be submitted not later than June 30, 2013. 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 January 31, 2012.
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
756 Laurel Ave.
St. Paul MN 55104
Editor, /Library Resources & Technical Services/
Editor, /Technicalities/
voice: 651-298-0121 <tel:651-298-0121>
m-john_at_tc.umn.edu <mailto:m-john_at_tc.umn.edu>
<http://www.lib.umn.edu/about/staff/peggy-johnson>
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Lynn Sipe (Mr.)
Associate Dean for Collections
University of Southern California Libraries
Doheny Library 101-D
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA 90089-0182
lsipe_at_usc.edu
213/740-2929 (office)
213/740-9962 (fax)
Received on Tue Dec 13 2011 - 03:01:27 EST