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Have you recently undertaken an investigation or carried out some research for your library or information service? Has someone within your organisation carried out some particularly useful study. The work may have fed into decision or policy making. It may mean that the service is more effective or operations are carried out more efficiently. It may have changed the way in which colleagues see things or contributed to a change in the culture in some significant way.
The Library & Information Research Group (LIRG) invites entries for the Daphne Clark Prize which is awarded for excellence in practitioner based library and information research. The Prize is intended to foster sound practitioner based library and information research and to encourage the wider dissemination of such studies.
The Prize is worth £500 and entries will be judged each year by a panel made up of members of the Library and Information Research Group. The judging panel will look for evidence of successful innovation based upon methodologies and results which are reliable and transferable.
Previous prizewinners include:
Entries are invited from any individuals or staff teams who have conducted practitioner based research. Their employer can also nominate candidates. The research must have been completed within the last two years. Any sort of research project can be nominated but note that externally funded projects are not eligible.
Entries should include the name of the candidate(s), a contact address, and a brief CV together with a short summary (2000-5000 words) of the research activity, method, and outcomes. This could be the report of the study supplemented by a brief description of how the research was applied. Candidates may be required to provide further evidence of the work undertaken (eg working papers, reports, committee papers etc) if required.
The winners will be asked to submit a short report describing their research within three months of receiving the Prize. This will be published in the Group's journal, Library & Information Research or publicised as considered appropriate by the judging panel. If the research findings have been previously published, then the report submitted for Library and Information Research must demonstrate originality.
The closing date for applications is 31st. December 2003 and it is expected that the prizewinner will be announced at the Group's AGM in March 2004.
Applications should be sent to the LIRG Awards and Prizes Officer:
Noeleen Cookman
Ground Floor Flat
72 Rosslyn Crescent
Harrow, HA1 2RZ
Or electronically to: [log in to unmask]