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 2009.
• 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 March 1, 2012. The results of this process will be announced at the ILA/ACRL Spring Conference in May 2012.

Please send your submission as an email attachment to Ryan Gjerde: gjerdery@luther.edu
or by mail to: Ryan Gjerde, Awards Committee Chair, Luther College Library, 700 College Drive, Decorah, IA 52101.
Include a copy of the research along with a name and contact information.

Committee members are: Kris Stacy-Bates, Jennifer Sterling, Leslie Ross Ferm and Steve Johns.

Submitted by Mary Iber, Out-going Awards Committee Chair