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From: REFORMA Office Manager <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 11:19 AM


CALL FOR PROPOSALS: ¡Investigaciones para servirles! Research At Your
Service! A Research Competition co-sponsored by REFORMA (The National
Association to Promote Library & Information Services to Latinos & the
Spanish-speaking) and the Library Research Round Table


Librarians and information professionals do a lot of work to meet the
information needs of the whole population. Research helps us determine what
those needs are and how we can meet them most efficiently and most
effectively – both major funded research projects and smaller
investigations of one library's user group.


The growth of the Latino population means the profession needs research
about Latinos and their information environments.  As a researcher and as
president of REFORMA, the National Association to Promote Library and
Information Services to Latinos and the Spanish-speaking, I would like to
invite you to consider submitting your latest research that focuses on the
Latino population, their library and/or information needs, and/or the
responses of the LIS community to those needs.

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*Who is encouraged to apply?* Everyone! Librarians, master's students,
doctoral students, researchers, etc. You need not be Latino, and you need
not speak Spanish. How do you apply?


Send a proposal via email, containing the following*A cover page with the
author's name, title of the paper, and author's contact information,
including e-mail address. *A separate page that includes only the title of
the paper and a 500-word abstract, summarizing the proposed
presentation. *Your abstract should include a research question or
hypothesis, research design and methods, theoretical framework (if
appropriate), and results (if completed).


Presentations should be based on original research, either completed or in
process, and should not have been published prior to the conference.


Submissions should be e-mailed in the form of Microsoft Word (*.doc), Open
Office Writer (*.odt), RTF, or PDF attachments, to: Sandra Rios Balderrama,
REFORMA Office Manager,  [log in to unmask] .


The deadline has been extended to April 15.


All submissions will be evaluated by a panel of referees, and three papers
will be selected for presentation at the “Investigaciones par
servirles/Research at your service” forum at ALA's 2013 Annual Conference
in Chicago. The three winners will receive a $250 honorarium from REFORMA.
(These honoraria were a donation made by a Reformista!) Presentations will
be limited to 15 minutes, with additional time for questions and
discussion.



For questions and more information, please e-mail Denice Adkins,
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--Denice Adkins, Associate ProfessorSISLT, University of MissouriREFORMA
President, 2012-13


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Sandra Rios Balderrama
Office Manager
REFORMA National
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Fresno, CA 93744
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Note: The Office Manager position for REFORMA is a 1/4 FTE position - 10
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