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LIBRARY & INFORMATION RESEARCH GROUP
PRIZE FOR RESEARCH BY PRACTITIONERS
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 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, and 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 Library and 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 Group's AGM on
March 15th 2000.
Applications should be sent to:
Noeleen Cookman
LIRG Awards & Prizes Officer
David Haynes Associates
Signet House
49-51 Farringdon Road
London
EC1M 3JP
Tel: 020 7242 4849
Fax: 020 7242 4858
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