[Sigcr-l] grant announcement

[Peggy Johnson]

Library Resources & Technical Services (LRTS) 
announces the availability of grants of up to 
$1,000 (funded by an ALA Carnegie-Whitney Grant) 
to assist authors with preparing literature 
reviews. The purpose of the grants is to provide 
funds that will be used for clerical and research 
support, thereby allowing the author/s to 
concentrate on analyzing the resources and 
writing the literature review.  In this new grant 
program, recipients will be able to work with the 
LRTS editor to determine appropriate 
uses.  Possible tasks might be collecting 
citations, sorting and organizing citations by 
themes and categories, locating and gathering 
resources to be reviewed, verifying citations, 
funding purchases of articles not owned by the 
home institution of the author, and so 
forth.  Funding also could provide a mentoring 
opportunity in   funding assistance by a library 
school or information science student.

Highly cited, literature reviews provide an 
essential professional service to practitioners, 
scholars and students by identifying the key 
themes and most important publications appearing 
in successive two year periods.  Books and 
articles by accredited scholars and researchers, 
i.e., primarily peer-reviewed publications 
provide the basis for a literature review.  A 
good literature review is evaluative, selective 
and critical, and goes beyond summarizing and 
quoting from the selected sources.   Literature 
reviews explain why the sources cited are 
important and valuable, may compare them to prior 
works, and create a structure that organizes the 
two year body of content to make it 
comprehensible and to identify themes, not only 
for those who have followed the developments it 
describes, but to future researchers.  All 
sources referenced appear in the endnotes; a 
separate bibliography is not published.  Although 
commissioned, LRTS literature reviews go through 
the same double-blind peer review process as unsolicited manuscripts.

LRTS seeks authors for the following topical areas and time frames:
à         Preservation literature 2009-2010
à         Cataloging and classification 2009-2010
à         Collection development and management 2009-2010
Authors currently preparing LRTS-commissioned 
literature reviews also are welcome to apply for 
a grant if they provide a rationale explaining how the funds will be used.
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The grant proposal must include:
1.       Requester name, title, and contact information
2.       The literature to be reviewed (see list above)
3.       The requester’s credentials to write the literature review
4.       Amount requested
5.       Budget plan and rationale for how the funds will be expended

Proposals are by March 26, 2010.

Applications and inquiries should be submitted to 
Peggy Johnson, LRTS Editor, <mailto:lrtseditor at ala.org>lrtseditor at ala.org.




Peggy Johnson, Associate University Librarian
Editor, Library Resources & Technical Services
Editor, Technicalities
University of Minnesota Libraries   voice:    612-624-2312
499 Wilson Library                              fax:     612-626-9353
309  19th Ave. So.                      m-john at tc.umn.edu
Minneapolis MN 
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