Greetings,
The ALISE/Eugene
Garfield Doctoral Dissertation Competition Jury is accepting proposals for the
2012 Award. Information below is also available on the ALISE website at http://www.alise.org/mc/page.do?sitePageId=55538. Please help us by distributing this call
widely – thank you!
Clara M. Chu,
Jury Chair
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(DEADLINE - June 30, 2011)
The Association for Library and Information Science Education
(ALISE) is now accepting proposals for its 2012 Doctoral Dissertation
Award Competition. Up to two outstanding dissertations completed
between December 15, 2009 and June 30, 2011 will be selected. Each
winner will receive $500, plus 2012 conference registration and
personal membership in ALISE for 2012. Winners of the Dissertation
Competition will present a summary of their work at the 2012 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
- 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.
- 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 2012 award, the acceptance time frame is December 15, 2009
through June 30, 2011.
- 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:
- Significance of the research problem to the overall LIS field
- Presentation of the relevant literature
- Design of the study (i.e., appropriateness of methodology, selection of specific techniques and/or tests)
- Conduct of study (i.e., application of methods of data collection).
- Analysis and presentation of the data (i.e., quality of analysis, logic of findings)
- Appropriateness of conclusions
- 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, 2011 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--
Clara M. Chu, Ph.D.
Chair and Professor
Department of Library and Information Studies
The University of North Carolina at Greensboro
1300 Spring Garden St., #446A, PO Box 26170
Greensboro, NC 27402-6170
direct line: 336.334.3481, Email:
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