[Metadatalibrarians] Library Resources & Technical Services (LRTS) announces grant for literature review authors

[Birdie MacLennan]

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     Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2010 16:01:51 -0600
     From: Peggy Johnson <m-john at umn.edu>
  Subject: announcement regarding grant for LRTS lit review authors

Please distribute this announcement widely.

LRTS  has received an ALA Carnegie Whitney grant to assist authors in
preparing literature reviews that will appear in LRTS. Attached is a
description and instruction for applying.

Library Resources & Technical Services (LRTS) announces the  
availability of grants of up to $1,000 (funded by an ALA  
Carnegie-Whitney 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.  In this new grant program, recipients will be able to work  
with the LRTS editor to determine appropriate uses.  Possible 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 in 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 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 time frames:
*	Preservation literature 2009-2010
*	Cataloging and classification 2009-2010
*	Collection development and management 2009-2010
Authors currently preparing LRTS-commissioned literature reviews also  
are welcome to apply for a grant if they provide a rationale  
explaining how the funds will be used.
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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 by March 26, 2010.

Applications and inquiries should be submitted to Peggy Johnson, LRTS  
Editor, lrtseditor at ala.org.


Peggy Johnson, Associate University Librarian
Editor, Library Resources & Technical Services
Editor, Technicalities
University of Minnesota Libraries   voice:    612-624-2312
499 Wilson Library                   fax:     612-626-9353
309  19th Ave. So.                      m-john at tc.umn.edu
Minneapolis MN 55455
http://www.lib.umn.edu/about/profiles/m-john.html