Iowa ACRL Public Relations/Marketing Grant 2011-2012

The Iowa Chapter of the Association of College and Research Libraries announces the 2011-2012

Public Relations/Marketing Award.

This award is intended to support creating and implementing a public relations or marketing program in an academic or research library in Iowa. The Award provides a cash grant of $500 to support implementation of the proposed project.

Winners have 12 months to spend the grant monies, and are requested to write an article describing the implementation of the project for the Iowa ACRL Newsletter.  In addition, the winner is encouraged to submit a presentation proposal for the Iowa ACRL Spring conference detailing the project following implementation.

No library may receive the award more than once within 10 years.

The proposal must be submitted by a member of the Iowa ACRL chapter. Submissions due July 31, 2011, to MIber@cornellcollege.edu

Announcement of the winner will occur at the ILA/ACRL business meeting during the ILA Annual Conference.

Title of Project:

Proposed by:

Library Name and Address:

Target population:

Intended outcomes:

Brief description:

Budget Detail (up to $500)

Attach an essay (up to 500 words) explaining the proposal and the ways in which the project will benefit the library’s public relations/marketing initiatives.

The Awards Committee of ILA/ACRL announces the availability of a scholarship to attend the Iowa-ACRL Spring Conference, March 18, 2011, at Central College in Pella, Iowa. The scholarship will cover the registration fee and up to $100 in travel, hotel, and meal expenses.

Applicants must be either:

1) Paid members of ILA/ACRL, working full-time in an Iowa academic or research library, and either:

• Attending their first ILA/ACRL Spring Conference, or
• Have worked in an Iowa academic or research library for fewer than three years.

 OR

2) Library science students and/or support staff working in an Iowa academic or research library. Student and support staff applicants do not have to be paid members of ILA/ACRL.

Previous Iowa ACRL Spring Conference scholarship recipients are NOT eligible.

                
Iowa ACRL 2011 Spring Conference Scholarship Application

Name:

Address:

Telephone:

Email:

Current Position:

Previous Position(s): 

Education:

Eligibility category: 

Essay (500 words or fewer)

Please submit the information above and your essay describing your interest in the scholarship and how you believe the scholarship will benefit your professional development. Scholarship winners are selected by the Awards Committee on the quality of the essay.

The chair of the ILA-ACRL Awards Committee should receive your application, including your essay, no later than February 22, 2011 (see address below). The successful applicant will be notified by March 1, 2011.

Send application and essay to:

Mary Iber
Awards Committee Chair
Consulting Librarian for the Sciences
Cole Library, Cornell College
620 Third Street SW
Mount Vernon, IA 52314

Or email to:miber@cornellcollege.edu

Awards Committee members: Mary Iber, Rachel Fleming, Karen Lehmann, Joyce Meldrem, Laurel Whisler, and Kris Stacy-Bates

ILA/ACRL’s ILA Annual Conference Scholarship Application

Conference 2010

The Awards Committee of the ILA/ACRL announces the availability of a scholarship to attend the Iowa Library Association Conference, October 13-15, 2010 in Coralville, IA, Iowa.  The scholarship will cover the registration fee and up to $100 in travel, hotel, and meal expenses.

Applicants must fit one of the following categories:

1)      Paid members of ILA/ACRL, working full-time in an Iowa academic or research library and either:

• Attending their first ILA conference OR
• Have worked in an Iowa academic or research library for fewer than three years

2)      Library science students and/or support personnel working in an Iowa academic or research library.  Student and support personnel applicants to not have to be paid members of ILA/ACRL.

Previous ILA Fall Conference scholarship recipients are not eligible.

Iowa ILA 2010 Annual Conference Scholarship Application

Name: _______________________________________________________________

Address: _____________________________________________________________

                ______________________________________________________________

Telephone: ____________________________________________________________

FAX: _________________________________________________________________

E-mail: ________________________________________________________________

Current position: ________________________________________________________

Previous position: ________________________________________________________

Education: ______________________________________________________________

                    ______________________________________________________________

Please submit the application (above) and an essay of no more than 500 words in length describing your interest in the scholarship and how you believe the scholarship will benefit your professional development.  Scholarship winners are selected by the Awards Committee on the quality of the essay.

The chair of the ILA-ACRL Awards Committee should receive your application and essay no later than August 31 (see address, email, and fax information below). The successful applicant will be notified by September 10.

Chair:  Brett Cloyd
Government Information and Reference Librarian
University of Iowa Libraries
100 Main Library
Iowa City, IA 52242-1420
fax 319-335-5900
brett-cloyd@uiowa.edu

Committee members are:

The Awards Committee of ILA/ACRL announces the availability of a scholarship to attend the Iowa-ACRL Spring Conference, March 18, 2011, at Central College, Pella, Iowa. The scholarship will cover the registration fee and up to $100 in travel, hotel, and meal expenses.

Applicants must be either:

1) Paid members of ILA/ACRL, working full-time in an Iowa academic or research library, and either:

•  Attending their first ILA/ACRL Spring Conference, or
•  Have worked in an Iowa academic or research library for fewer than three years.

OR

2) Library science students and/or support staff working in an Iowa academic or research library. Student and support staff applicants do not have to be paid members of ILA/ACRL.

Previous Iowa ACRL Spring Conference scholarship recipients are NOT eligible.

Iowa ACRL 2011 Spring Conference Scholarship Application

Name:

Address:

Telephone: 

Email: 

Current Position: 

Previous Position(s): 

Education: 

Reason for Eligibility:

Essay (up to 500 words):

Please submit the application and essay describing your interest in the scholarship and how you believe the scholarship will benefit your professional development. Scholarship winners are selected by the Awards Committee on the quality of the essay.

The chair of the ILA-ACRL Awards Committee should receive your application and essay no later than February 22, 2011.  The successful applicant will be notified by March 1.

Send application and essay to:

Mary Iber, Awards Committee Chair
Consulting Librarian for the Sciences
Cole Library, Cornell College
620 Third Street SW
Mount Vernon, IA 52314 

Or email to: miber@cornellcollege.edu

Awards Committee members: Mary Iber, Rachel Fleming, Karen Lehmann, Joyce Meldrem, Laurel Whisler, and Kris Stacy-Bates

ILA/ACRL’s ILA Annual Conference Scholarship Application

Conference 2008

The Awards Committee of ILA/ACRL announces the availability of a scholarship to attend the Iowa-ACRL Spring Conference, March 3, 2008, at St. Ambrose University, Davenport, Iowa. The scholarship will cover the registration fee and up to $100 in travel, hotel, and meal expenses.

Applicants must be:

1) Paid members of ILA/ACRL, working fulltime in an Iowa academic or research library, and either:

• Attending their first ILA/ACRL Spring Conference OR
• Have worked in an Iowa academic or research library for fewer than three years.

2) Library science students and/or support personnel working in an Iowa academic or research library. Student and support personnel applicants do not have to be paid members of ILA/ACRL.

Previous scholarship recipients are not eligible.

Please submit the application (download application form [doc]) and an essay no more than 500 words in length describing your interest in the scholarship and how you believe the scholarship will benefit your professional development. Scholarship winners are selected by the Awards Committee on the quality of the essay.

The chair of the ILA-ACRL Awards Committee should receive your application and essay no later than February 15, 2008 (see address, email, and fax information below). The successful applicant will be notified by February 27, 2008..

Jean Donham, Awards Committee Chair
Cornell College
620 3rd Street SW
Mount Vernon Iowa 52314
jdonham@cornellcollege.edu

Fax: 319. 895.4128
Phone: 319.895.4260

Committee members are:

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

Awards Committee Information

View Research grant information -- 2012 information posted

Public Relations/Marketing Grant 2011-2012 (also known as "Advocacy Award")

• Previous Winner:
  2007 -- Charles C. Myers Library, The University of Dubuque
       proposal (pdf)

Apply for ILA/ACRL Spring conference scholarship 2011

Apply for the ILA Fall conference scholarship

• 2007 Scholarship Essays 

The Iowa Chapter of the Association of College and Research Libraries announces the 2011-2012 Advocacy Award. 

This award is intended to support creating and implementing a public relations or marketing program in an academic or research library in Iowa. The Award provides a cash grant of $500 to support implementation of the proposed project. 

Winners have 12 months to spend the grant monies, and are requested to write an article describing the implementation of the project for the Iowa ACRL Newsletter.  In addition, the winner is encouraged to submit a presentation proposal for the Iowa ACRL Spring conference detailing the project following implementation. 

No library may receive the award more than once within 10 years. 

The proposal must be submitted by a member of the Iowa ACRL chapter. Submissions due July 31, 2011, to miber@cornellcollege.edu Announcement of the winner will occur at the ILA/ACRL business meeting during the ILA Annual Conference in Council Bluffs, October 2011.

Download 2011 application (doc)

2009 application (doc)

Previous Winner:
2007 -- Charles C. Myers Library, The University of Dubuque
     proposal (pdf)

The Awards Committee of ILA/ACRL announces the availability of a scholarship to attend the ILA Fall Conference, October 12-14, 2011 in Council Bluffs, IA. The scholarship will cover the registration fee and up to $100 in travel, hotel, and meal expenses.
 
Applicants must meet one of the following categories:
 
1) Paid members of ILA/ACRL, working full-time in an Iowa academic or research library, and either:
 
Attending their first ILA Annual Conference OR working in an Iowa academic or research library for fewer than three years.
 
2) Library science students and/or support personnel working in an Iowa academic or research library. Student and support personnel applicants do not have to be paid members of ILA/ACRL.
 
Previous ILA Fall Conference scholarship recipients are not eligible.
 
Please submit the application and a 500-word essay describing your interest in the scholarship and how you believe the scholarship will benefit your  professional development. Scholarship winners are selected by the Awards Committee on the quality of the essay.
 
The chair of the ILA-ACRL Awards Committee should receive your application and essay no later than August 31 (see address and email below). The successful applicant will be notified by September 9.

Please include the following information in your application:

Iowa ACRL 2011 Fall Conference Scholarship Application

Name:

Address:

Telephone: 

Email: 

Current Position: 

Previous Position(s): 

Education: 

Reason for Eligibility:

Essay (up to 500 words):

Send your completed application and essay to:
 
Mary Iber
Cole Library
Cornell College
620 3rd Street SW
Mount Vernon, IA 52314

or email to miber@cornellcollege.edu

Additional Award Committee members are:

Kris Stacy-Bates - Iowa State University
Jennifer Sterling - William Penn University
Leslie Ross Ferm - St. Ambrose University
Steven Johns - Des Moines Area Community College-Ankeny