Mary Jo Lynch Award for LIS Students
Thanks to student Lana Thelen for the following notice.
In partnership with the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), the National Commission on Libraries and Information Science (NCLIS) and the Federal State Cooperative System (FSCS) for public library data collection, the American Library Association (ALA) continues the Mary Jo Lynch Award for Library and Information Science (LIS) students. The award is a tribute to a leader in the development of a coordinated national library data collection program, and the first director of the Office for Research and Statistics with ALA.
The award encourages library school student statistical research using public library data collected at the state and national level. Any student working toward a master's degree from a program of library and information science at an institution accredite! d by the ALA is eligible to apply. The student must be sponsored by a faculty member of a library school, have prepared research as an article for submission for publication to a library journal (state, national, regional) and the research must be based on state or national FSCS public library data.
The winner will receive an engraved plaque and funding for attendance at either the ALA national conference or the Public Library Association (PLA) national conference. Winners may be asked to present a summary of the research paper findings.
Please contact Neal Kaske (NCLIS) for information about the award, and the award criteria are available on the NCLIS website, http://www.nclis.gov/statsurv/surveys/fscs/awardsFSCS/MaryJoLynchAward.pdf