[Asis-l] Fw: Shera Award for Excellence in Doctoral Research

[Richard Hill]

[Forwarded.  Dick Hill]

>Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2003 12:45:58 -0500
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>Sender: Open Lib/Info Sci Education Forum <JESSE at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU>
>From: Marie Radford <mradford at PRODIGY.NET>
>Subject: Fw: Shera Award for Excellence in Doctoral Research
>To: JESSE at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU
>
>Colleagues,
>The Library Research Round Table invites you to apply for the Shera Award 
>for Excellence in Doctoral Research.
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>Deadline for Entries is February 14, 2003!
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>$500 cash award!
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>Details found below. Doctoral students check it out!  Faculty please 
>forward to Doctoral Students.
>
>Thanks!
>
>Marie L. Radford, Chair, LRRT
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>The Library Research Round Table of the American Library Association 
>announces two separate awards for 2003, both in the amount of $500: the 
>Jesse H. Shera Award for Distinguished Published Research and the Jesse H. 
>Shera Award for Excellence in Doctoral Research. The deadline for 
>submitting entries is February 14, 2003. The LRRT Shera Award Committee 
>will judge the entries for both competitions. Winners will be notified by 
>April 1, 2003, and the decision of the Committee will be announced by the 
>LRRT Steering Committee Chair, Christine Avery, prior to the 2003 Annual 
>Conference in Toronto, Canada. Guidelines for the second award are given 
>below.
>
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>    * All papers submitted must represent completed research not 
> previously published. Papers submitted or accepted for publication, 
> although they have not yet appeared, are NOT eligible.
>    * All research papers must relate in at least a general way to library 
> and information studies. Any research method is acceptable.
>    * The text of any submitted research paper must not exceed 10,000 words.
>    * Research papers should be drawn from work completed in pursuit of 
> doctoral studies (e.g., seminar papers).  Dissertations themselves and 
> parts of dissertations are NOT acceptable, but related studies, not 
> included in the dissertation, are welcome.
>    * Eligibility is not limited to LRRT members.
>    * Jointly authored research papers are eligible, but all co-authors 
> must have been doctoral students at the time the research was conducted. 
> No one author may submit more than two research papers.
>    * Research papers will be judged on the following 
> points:
>        * Definition of the research problem;
>        * Application of research methods;
>        * Clarity of the reporting of the research;
>        * Significance of the conclusions, as judged by the Committee.
>    * The Committee reserves the right to give no award.
>    * The author(s) of the winning article will receive $500; multiple 
> authors will divide the award.
>    * An agreement between LRRT and the editor of Library and Information 
> Science Research (LISR) permits the timely publication of the winning 
> paper if the author so chooses. Entrants who wish to have their paper 
> published by LISR should follow the style and format indicated in the 
> "Instructions to Authors" section of the journal. Entrants who do not 
> wish to have their paper published in LISR may use any appropriate style 
> and format.
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>To enter the 2003 competition for this award, send THREE (3) copies of the 
>paper, together with a cover letter stating that you own copyright to it 
>and whether you want LISR to publish your paper if it wins the award, 
>postmarked no later than February 14, 2003, to:
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>Christine Avery, Head, Commonwealth College Libraries
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>Chair of the LRRT Shera Award Committee
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>408 Paterno Library
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>Penn State University
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>University Park, PA 16802
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>Tel: 814-863-7451 (office)
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>Fax: 814-865-3665
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>E-mail: cca2 at psu.edu

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