ALISE Jean Tague-Sutcliffe
Doctoral Student Poster Competition
Submission Deadline: October 1, 2014
Notification of Acceptance: October 31, 2014
Eligibility
- Only one submission per student is permitted.
- Only doctoral students who have completed or are near completion of their doctoral dissertation research (e.g., post-proposal; the core data have been analyzed; the student is at
the stage of drawing conclusions from the research findings) are eligible to enter this competition. Students whose posters are accepted must submit a final copy of the poster as a PDF
by December 15, 2014. Failure to submit a poster at this time will result in elimination from the competition. As with poster proposals, final poster submissions will be made through EasyChair
(see below for more information).
- Students whose posters are accepted are required to register for and attend the ALISE 2015 Conference in Chicago, IL, on January 27-30, 2015.
Submissions should include the following:
- Student’s name and the name of the student’s advisor
- Title of the research study
- 500-word extended abstract (in Word format)
Follow these steps:
1. Log on the system (create an EasyChair account if you do not already have one).
2. If you are also a reviewer, please select "author" as your role for your own submission.
3. Select "New Submission".
4. Complete all the information requested. Provide a 50-word abstract for your submission. This will be used for the Conference Program.
5. Upload your Word file (extended abstract) and press "Submit". You should receive a confirmation from the EasyChair system.
Please note: Submitting a proposal constitutes your permission for ALISE to publish the brief and extended abstracts in the conference program and on the ALISE website, if your proposal is accepted.
Judging Criteria
Each poster will be judged according to the following criteria on a scale of 1-5:
- Practical, theoretical, and methodological soundness: The discovery has broad application and potential benefit for practice, promotes the understanding of theory or suggests a new theoretical
direction, and reports results that are statistically significant or provide a persuasive basis for argument.
- Design and method: Research design is well articulated and appropriate to the problem or research question(s), and method(s) of data collection, and analysis is appropriate, well described
and demonstrates meaningful results.
- Oral presentation: Presentation is clear and to-the-point and is succinct to describe broadly the overall nature of the problem, the design and methodology, the results, and their implications.
- Organization, clarity, and aesthetics: Poster should be well organized and attractive, understandable without the oral presentation, and coherent with the oral presentation.
About the ALISE Jean Tague-Sutcliffe Doctoral Student Poster Competition
This competition was established in memory of Jean Tague-Sutcliffe, professor and former dean of the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Western Ontario
(UWO) (now the Faculty of Information and Media Studies). During her thirty-year career, Professor Tague-Sutcliffe’s research on the measurement of information made significant contributions
to the theoretical, methodological, and practical foundations of library and information science. This award, established by students at UWO in 1997, also recognizes Professor Tague-Sutcliffe’s
dedication to the education of information professionals by awarding a certificate, a one-year student annual membership to ALISE, and a $200 cash prize to the first-place winner.
Questions?
Please direct any questions regarding the 2015 ALISE Jean Tague-Sutcliffe Doctoral Student Poster Competition to:
Mega Subramaniam, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, College of Information Studies, University of Maryland; [log in to unmask]
Melissa Johnston, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, School of Library and Information Studies, University of Alabama;
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Mega M Subramaniam, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Associate Director of Information Policy and Access Center (iPAC)
College of Information Studies
University of Maryland
(301) 405 3406
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http://www.terpconnect.umd.edu/~mmsubram/Co-Editor, School Library Research
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