Please see the below call for research proposals from REFOEMA. There is a need for more research on Children's Library Service
to Latinos.
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, sandra@reforma.org .
The deadline has been extended to April 15.
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.
--Denice Adkins, Associate Professor SISLT, University of Missouri REFORMA President, 2012-13
