The Library and Information Research Group (LIRG) and JIBS are pleased to announce the winners of their 2010 Student Awards.
LIRG offers its award to promote a greater awareness amongst students of the importance of research and to facilitate the dissemination of the results of outstanding projects. Each School of Library and Information Studies is invited to nominate one of their students' projects for the award.
This year, for the first time, a parallel award was offered by JIBS. The JIBS competition focuses on the area of library information systems, bibliographic databases or other resource discovery technologies and how such resources or technologies are being developed or exploited.
The 2010 LIRG award winner is: Johanna Anderson - University of the West of England Library Aid to Developing Countries: A case study investigating how a Western literary library model is integrated into a Sub-Saharan African oral culture within the Malawian primary education system.
The winner of the JIBS award 2010 is: Nicky Ransom - University of Aberystwyth Facets of user assigned tags and their effectiveness in image retrieval
The standard of all applications was very high and both students and their supervisors are to be commended. We would like to give special mention to:
LIRG prize applications:
Josef Cabey, University of Brighton
The Role of Visual Presentation of Books and Images to the Promotion of Rare Books and Special Collections
Sarah McDonald, University College Dublin In One Forme or Another: The Currency of London News in Dublin City Newspapers, 1790-1801
Pippa Macleod, Northumbria University
The digital divide. The great leap: a case study of factors affecting older adults’ willingness and ability to cross the digital divide
JIBS prize applications:
Graeme Hawes, Robert Gordon University- How undergraduates use electronic books in scholarly activity: a case study of Physics students at the University of St Andrews
Michelle Dalton, University College Dublin - The structure, scope and form of tags and controlled vocabulary terms: A comparative study of CiteULike & Delicious
Ruth Wong - University of Sheffield - The scientific impact of the Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre by citation analysis
LIRG and JIBS are in discussion with the prize winners and hope to make details of the winning entries available via Library and Information Research journal http://www.lirg.org.uk/lir/ojs/index.php/lir and the JIBS web site respectively http://www.jibs.ac.uk/ respectively.
Details about applying for the 2011 Student Awards will be available at http://www.cilip.org.uk/get-involved/special-interest-groups/research (LIRG) and http://www.jibs.ac.uk/ (JIBS). The closing date for applications will be 13 May 2011.
* apologies for cross-posting *
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