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Call for Applications: Institute for Research Design in Librarianship (IRDL) Summer
Workshop
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“IRDL not only set me on the path to producing and
properly documenting original research, but it set me up with a network of
like-minded librarians who will help me achieve my goals.” — 2014 IRDL
Scholar
Call for applications for the IRDL 2015. The second
summer workshop will be held on July 13-23, 2015, with arrival on campus on
Sunday, July 12, and departure on Friday, July 24.
We are seeking novice librarian researchers who are
employed by academic libraries or research libraries outside an academic
setting in the United States to participate in the Institute. Novice
researchers typically may have conducted research but have not yet had a
peer-reviewed article published as the primary author or had an individual
presentation accepted by a peer-reviewed conference. We define “novice”
broadly; if you feel that you would benefit from being guided throughout the
entire research design process, we encourage your application. Librarians of
all levels of professional experience are welcome to apply for the scholarship
which includes, instruction in research design and a full year of peer/mentor
support to complete a research project at their home institutions; the learning experience, travel to and from
Los Angeles, CA, accommodations, and food will be supplied to Scholars free of
charge.
We seek librarians with a passion for research and a
desire to improve their research skills. IRDL is designed to bring together all
that the literature tells us about the necessary conditions for librarians to
conduct valid and reliable research in an institutional setting. The cohort
will be chosen from a selective submission process, with an emphasis on
enthusiasm for research and diversity from a variety of perspectives, including
ethnicity and type and size of library.
The Advisory Board, comprised of librarians with
research experience in a variety of settings, will use an open review process
to select participants who will travel to Los Angeles, California, participate
in all Institute activities, and conduct a research project during the 2015-2016
academic year. The online application requires a proposed research project that
will be revised at the workshop and will be the basis for the study to be
completed in the coming year.
Selection criteria:
- Commitment
to the year-long process of communicating with other participants and
conducting the proposed study;
- significance
of the research problem to the operational success of the applicant’s
library or to the profession of librarianship;
- thoughtfulness,
thoroughness, and clarity of the research proposal;
- enthusiasm
for research and a desire to learn.
We will be accepting applications from December 1,
2014 to February 1, 2015.
Scholars accepted to the Institute will be notified in
mid-April, 2015.
Please contact Project Directors with any questions
about the Institute or the application process:
Kristine Brancolini, Dean of the Library, Loyola Marymount University:
[email protected]
Marie Kennedy, Serials & Electronic Resources
Librarian, Loyola Marymount University:
[email protected]
For more information about the project, including the
project partners, the San José State University School of Information and the
Statewide California Electronic Library Consortium (SCELC), please see the
project website: http://irdlonline.org.