This might be of interest especially  to any of you who have carried 
out a piece of work-based research just in the line of duty. think 
about it!
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valerie
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LIBRARY & INFORMATION RESEARCH GROUP (LIRG)

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 a 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 for research by
practitioners which has made a useful and timely contribution.

The Prize is worth £250 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
sound and transferable research methods.  The Prize is intended to
encourage the use of sound methodologies in practitioner  based library and
information research and to encourage wider dissemination of small studies
conducted by practitioners.

Entries are acceptable from any individuals or staff teams who have
conducted practitioner based research.  Their employer can also nominate
candidates.  Entries should consist of 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 used.
  Any sort of research project can be nominated but externally funded
projects are not eligible.   The research must have been completed within
the last two years.  Applications should include the name of the
candidate(s), a contact address, ad a brief CV.  Candidates may be required
to provide further evidence of the work undertaken (eg working papers,
reports, committee papers etc) if required.

Prize 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 News or
publicised as considered appropriate by the judging panel.  If the research
findings have been previously published, then the report submitted for the
Library & Information Research News must demonstrate originality.

The closing date for applications is 31st December 1999, and it is expected
that the prize winner will be announced at the Groups's AGM on 15th March
2000.
Applications  should be sent to:
Noeleen Cookman
LIRG Awards and Prizes Officer
David Haynes Associates
Signet House
49-51 Farrindgon Road
London EC1M 3JP

Tel: 020 7242 4849
Fax: 020 7242 4858
Email: [log in to unmask]

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Valerie Ferguson
Postgraduate Medical & NHS Libraries Adviser
John Rylands University of Manchester
Oxford Rd Manchester M13 9PP
Tel: 0161 275 3729/7386
Fax: 0161 273 7488
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