CALL FOR PROPOSALS
¡Investigaciones para servirles! Research At Your Service!
A Research Competition co-sponsored by REFORMA (The National
Association to Promote Library & Information Services to Latinos & the Spanish-speaking)
and the Library Research Round Table
Librarians and information professionals do a lot of work to
meet the information needs of the whole
population. Research helps us determine what those needs are
and how we can meet them most
efficiently and most effectively – both major funded
research projects and smaller investigations of one library's user group. The growth of the Latino population
means the profession needs research about Latinos and their information environments.
As a researcher and as president of REFORMA, the National
Association to Promote Library and
Information Services to Latinos and the Spanish-speaking, I
would like to invite you to consider
submitting your latest research that focuses on the Latino
population, their library and/or information
needs, and/or the responses of the LIS community to those
needs.
Who is encouraged to apply? Everyone! Librarians, master's
students, doctoral students, researchers,
etc. You need not be Latino, and you need not speak Spanish.
How do you apply? Send a proposal via email, containing the
following
· A cover page with the author's name, title of the paper,
and author's contact information,
including e-mail address.
· A separate page that includes only the title of the paper
and a 500-word abstract, summarizing
the proposed presentation.
· Your abstract should include a research question or
hypothesis, research design and methods,
theoretical framework (if appropriate), and results (if
completed).
Presentations should be based on original research, either
completed or in process, and should not have been published prior to the conference.
Submissions should be e-mailed in the form of Microsoft Word
(*.doc), Open Office Writer
(*.odt), RTF, or PDF attachments, to: Sandra Rios
Balderrama, REFORMA Office Manager,
All submissions will be evaluated by a panel of referees,
and three papers will be selected for
presentation at the “Investigaciones par servirles/Research
at your service” forum at ALA's 2013
Annual Conference in Chicago. The three winners will receive
a $250 honorarium from REFORMA.
(These honoraria were a donation made by a Reformista!)
Presentations will be limited to 15 minutes, with additional
time for questions and discussion.
