CALL
FOR PAPERS: 2011 ALISE/LMC Paper Award
Library
Media
Connection and the ALISE Youth Services and School Library Media
Special Interest
Groups proudly announce the 2011 Youth Services Paper Award and invite
the
submission of papers related to youth services in libraries. An award
of $1000 will
be made to recognize an outstanding paper reporting innovative research
in
youth services. Submissions must be received on or before 15
July 2010.
Email submissions only
(see below for details).
Papers
are invited on
topics related to youth services in public libraries or school library
media
centers, including, but not limited to
- resources
specially developed for youth
- history
of youth services in libraries
- information
seeking behavior of youth
- service
and program evaluation
- policy
research
- technology
innovation
- the
relationship between libraries and other organizations
- collection
development
Papers
must include a
section on the applicability of the research to practice. Also, papers
should
not have been previously published.
Authors MUST be
personal members of ALISE and members of either the ALISE Youth
Services SIG or
the School Library Media SIG. In cases of joint authorship, one
honorarium will
be awarded for the paper. Graduate students as well as faculty are
eligible to
submit papers.
Only one paper per
entrant may be submitted for the 2011 ALISE/LMC Paper Award. Authors
may not
simultaneously submit the same paper to other ALISE competitions or
venues. And
currently-serving panel selectors are not eligible.
The winning author is
expected to present a summary of the paper during the 2011
ALISE Conference. The
paper will be scheduled into one of the ALISE Awards sessions by the
conference
planning committee. Winning papers subsequently published should
acknowledge
having received the ALISE/LMC Paper Award.
The author(s) of the
winning paper must also agree to produce a version of the paper for
publication
in Library Media Connection. The
decision to publish or not to publish will be at the discretion of the
journal’s editor.
Submission
Requirements
Papers, including
title page, abstract (150 word maximum), and references, must not
exceed 25
double-spaced pages, should have one-inch margins, be in 12-point font,
and should
be paginated in the upper right corner of each page.
The paper should be
organized as follows:
- Title
page (separate page)
- Abstract
- Text
- References
The
name(s) of the
author(s) must appear on the title page ONLY. The title should appear
both on
the title page and at the top of the page on which the abstract
appears. Submissions
must be received on or before 15
July 2010.
Email submissions only.
Submit papers via email attachment (.doc, .pdf,
or
.rtf files acceptable) to:
Dr.
Allison G. Kaplan
School
of Library and Information Studies
University of Wisconsin-Madison
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(608)
890-1335
Selection
Process
Papers
will be judged
by an awards committee constituted jointly by members of the
Youth Services and
School Library Media SIGs, selected and convened by the previous year’s
chair
or co-chairs. Immediate past SIG chairs cannot serve on the selection
panel. All
submissions will be subject to blind review. Each immediate past SIG
chair
solicits and appoints 2 committee members from their respective
memberships.
These 4 then serve as the review panel, work independently, and render
the
award decision. The committee reserves the right not to make an award
if the
submissions are considered to be of insufficient quality.
--
Allison G. Kaplan, Ed.D.
Associate Faculty Associate
School of Library and Information Studies
University of Wisconsin
4263 Helen C. White Hall
600 N. Park Street
Madison, WI 53706
Phone: (608) 890-1335
Email: agkaplan at wisc dot edu