Dear Colleagues,
The ALISE/Eugene
Garfield Doctoral Dissertation Competition Jury is accepting proposals for the
2011 Awards. Information below is also available on the ALISE website at http://www.alise.org/mc/page.do?sitePageId=50703&orgId=ali. Please help us by distributing this call
widely – thank you!
Sam Hastings,
Chair
(DEADLINE - June 30, 2010)
The Association for Library and Information Science Education
(ALISE) is now accepting proposals for its 2011 Doctoral Dissertation Award
Competition. Up to two outstanding dissertations completed between December 15,
2008 and June 30, 2010 will be selected. Each winner will receive $500, plus
2011 conference registration and personal membership in ALISE for 2011. Winners
of the Dissertation Competition will present a summary of their work at the
2011 ALISE annual meeting.
Doctoral students who have recently graduated in any field of
study, or who will have completed their dissertations by the above deadline,
are invited to submit two complete copies of their dissertation. Dissertations
must deal with substantive issues related to library and information science,
but applicants may be from within or outside LIS programs.
Submission Requirements
A. Two
complete copies of the dissertation, and abstract of 200 words, and an
email/postal return address must be submitted to the address given at the end
of this notice.
B. The
dissertation must have been accepted by the university within the 18 months
preceding the deadline for submissions and must not have been submitted for any
other ALISE award during the year it is submitted for the Eugene Garfield-ALISE
Doctoral Dissertation Award. For the 2011 award, the acceptance time frame is
December 15, 2008 through June 30, 2010.
C. The
dissertation must be accompanied by proof of university acceptance, or by a
letter from the dissertation advisor indicating the dissertation has been
submitted to the university and will meet the university acceptance deadline
requirement.
Judging
The ALISE Research Committee will judge the dissertations. In
cases where the research or methodology warrants it, additional assistance will
be obtained from ALISE members outside the committee. Dissertations will be
judged according to the following criteria:
A. Significance
of the research problem to the overall LIS field
B. Presentation
of the relevant literature
C. Design
of the study (i.e., appropriateness of methodology, selection of specific
techniques and/or tests)
D. Conduct
of study (i.e., application of methods of data collection).
E. Analysis
and presentation of the data (i.e., quality of analysis, logic of findings)
F. Appropriateness
of conclusions
G. Clarity
and organization of the writing
The committee reserves the right to select no winning dissertation
if in its judgment none of the submissions are considered satisfactory.
Previous outstanding dissertations exhibited these characteristics:
· Good
writing
· Strong
synthesis of the literature
· Well-developed
discussion of potential problems with frameworks, theories, models, and
definitions used in the research-along with discussion of how the dissertation
would overcome limitations
· Constraints
on generalizing beyond the data provided or the study as designed
· Clear
explanation of validity/appropriateness issues
· Discussion
depth beyond a repeat of findings
· Answers
to the "so what?" question
Two complete copies, including an abstract of no more than 200
words, evidence of acceptance, and an email/postal return address, must be
postmarked no later than June 30, 2010 and sent to:
ALISE
Attn: ALISE Res Com Awards
65 East Wacker Place, Suite 1900
Chicago, IL 60601-7246
Previous
winners listed at http://www.alise.org/mc/page.do?sitePageId=55538
Dr. S. K. Hastings
Director and Professor
School of Library and
Information Science
University of South
Carolina
Davis College
1501 Greene St.
Columbia, SC 29208
803-777-3858
http://www.libsci.sc.edu