Announcing the ILA-ACRL’s Research Award!

The Iowa ACRL Awards committee announces a $500 grant to be awarded to an ILA/ACRL Chapter member for a presented or published scholarly work. Please consider submitting your own work, or nominating a colleague for this award! The following rules and qualifications apply:

• A qualifying presented paper must be text-based and have been delivered at a regional, national or international conference.
• A qualifying published paper is to have appeared in a scholarly journal.
• A qualifying book is to be scholarly in nature.
• The subject matter of the material submitted may be on any scholarly topic.
• The papers should have been delivered or published since October of 2005.
• Power point slides, video or audio submissions will not be considered.
• Entries may be self-submitted or nominated.
• Entries will be considered by the Awards Committee on the basis of a blind ranking process.
• If the committee finds that none of the entries are meritorious, it may decide not to make an award.
• The deadline for submissions is December 15. The results of this process should be announced by mid January.

Please send your submissions by mail to: Rebecca Stuhr, Awards Committee Chair, 1111 6th Ave, Burling Library, Grinnell, Iowa 50112; or as a word attachment by email: stuhrr@grinnell.edu. Committee members are : Sheryl Taylor, Joyce Meldrem, Selina Lin, and Chris Neuhaus.
Submitted by Rebecca Stuhr, Awards Committee Chair