LRTS Request for Grant Proposals
Library
Resources
& Technical Services (LRTS)
announces the availability of grants of up to $1,000 (funded by an
Association
for Library Collections and Technical Services grant) to assist
authors with
preparing literature reviews. The purpose of the grants is to
provide funds
that will be used for clerical and research support, thereby
allowing the
author/s to concentrate on analyzing the resources and writing the
literature
review. Possible support
tasks might be
collecting citations, sorting and organizing citations by themes
and
categories, locating and gathering resources to be reviewed,
verifying
citations, funding purchases of articles not owned by the home
institution of
the author, and so forth. Funding
also could
provide a mentoring opportunity by funding assistance by a library
school or
information science student.
Highly cited, literature reviews provide an
essential
professional service to practitioners, scholars, and students by
identifying
the key themes and the most important publications appearing in
successive two
year periods. Books and
articles by
accredited scholars and researchers, i.e., primarily peer-reviewed
publications
provide the basis for a literature review.
A good literature review is evaluative, selective, and
critical, and
goes beyond summarizing and quoting from the selected sources. Literature reviews explain
why the sources cited
are important and valuable, may compare them to prior works, and
create a
structure that organizes the two-year body of content to make it
comprehensible
and to identify themes, not only for those who have followed the
developments
it describes, but to future researchers. All sources referenced appear
in the endnotes;
a separate bibliography is not published. Although commissioned, LRTS literature reviews go through the same
double-blind peer
review process as unsolicited manuscripts.
LRTS
seeks authors
for the following topical areas and coverage periods:
*
Collection Development and
Management literature
published 2011-2012
*
Cataloging/Classification/Metadata
Management literature
published 2011-2012
*
Preservation and
Reformatting literature
published 2011-2012
Papers should be submitted not later than June
30, 2013.
Grant recipients will be required to submit progress reports to
the LRTS Editor in June
and December each
year.
The grant proposal must include:
1.
Requester name, title, and
contact information
2.
The literature to be
reviewed (see list above)
3.
The requester’s credentials
to write the
literature review
4.
Amount requested
5.
Budget plan and rationale
for how the funds will
be expended
Proposals are due by January 31, 2012.
Applications and inquiries should be submitted
to Peggy
Johnson, LRTS Editor, lrtseditor@ala.org.
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Birdie MacLennan
Bailey/Howe Library
University of Vermont E-mail: bmaclenn@uvm.edu
538 Main Street Phone: 802-656-2016
Burlington, VT 05405, USA Fax: 802-656-4038
Library Professor/Director, Resource Description & Analysis Services
Vermont Digital Newspaper Project Director
Library Liaison for Romance Languages