[Libs-Or] Academic Librarian Prof. Dev. Opportunity! Institute for Research Design in Librarianship

[Senior, Heidi]

Hello OR and WA academic librarians,

Apologies for cross-posting, but I've just learned of an awesome professional development opportunity for  "novice researcher" academic librarians (novice = who have not published/not presented in/at peer-reviewed publication or conference; poster sessions okay):

Applications are being sought for a nine-day Institute for Research Design in Librarianship, to be held June 16-26, 2014 at Loyola Marymount University. The learning experience, travel to and from Los Angeles, CA, accommodations, and food will be supplied to 21 successful applicants free of charge.

Applications accepted from December 1, 2013 to February 1, 2014.

For details see below, and also the Institute web site, http://irdlonline.org/. If you don't think you can do it this year, the organizers are planning 2015 and 2016 institutes as well.

Best wishes,

Heidi Senior, 2014-2015 facilitator of the Alliance Research Interest Group (A-RIG)*

*The Alliance Research Interest Group<http://www.orbiscascade.org/index/research-interest-group> provides a forum for discussion and development of collaborative research related to all aspects of library work. Membership is open to librarians throughout the Pacific Northwest.
The objectives of this group include 1) Helping each other learn how to do better research and 2) Making more efficient use of our collective resources, thus advancing our individual research interests more quickly.
For more information see the A-RIG wiki: https://nwlibresearch.pbwiki.com.

Heidi E. K. Senior
Reference/Instruction Librarian
Clark Library
University of Portland
Portland, OR 97203
senior at up.edu<>503-943-8037

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The William H. Hannon Library has received a three-year grant from the
Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS) to offer a nine-day
continuing education opportunity for academic and research librarians.
Each year 21 librarians will receive instruction in research design and
a full year of support to complete a research project at their home
institutions. The summer Institute for Research Design in Librarianship
(IRDL) is supplemented with pre-institute learning activities and a
personal learning network that provides ongoing mentoring.  The
institutes will be held on the campus of Loyola Marymount University in
Los Angeles, California. For more information about the project,
including the project partners, the School of Library and Information
Science at San José State University and the Statewide California
Electronic Library Consortium (SCELC), please see the project website:
http://irdlonline.org.
The first institute will be held on June 16-26, 2014, with arrival on
campus on Sunday, June 15, and departure on Friday, June 27.
We are now issuing a call for applications for the IRDL 2014. 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. We define novice
researchers as those who may have conducted research but have not yet
had an article published or a presentation accepted by a peer-reviewed
publication or conference; librarians who have presented peer-reviewed
poster sessions will be eligible. Librarians of all levels of
professional experience are welcome to apply.
We seek librarians with a passion for research and a desire to improve
their research skills. The project 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 Committee, 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
2014-2015 academic year. The online application requests a proposed
research project that will be revised at the institute and will be the
basis for the study to be completed in the coming year.
Selection criteria:

·         Significance of the research problem to the operational
success of the applicant's library or to the profession of librarianship;

·         Clarity of the proposed methodology;

·         Enthusiasm for research and desire to learn;

·         Commitment to the year-long process of communicating with
other participants and conducting the proposed study.
We will be accepting applications from December 1, 2013 to February 1, 2014.
Scholars accepted to the Institute will be notified by March 1, 2014.
Please contact Project Directors with any questions about the Institute
or the application process:
Kristine Brancolini, Dean of the Library, Loyola Marymount University
brancoli at lmu.edu<mailto:brancoli at lmu.edu><mailto:brancoli at lmu.edu<mailto:brancoli at lmu.edu>>
Marie Kennedy, Serials & Electronic Resources Librarian, Loyola
Marymount University
marie.kennedy at lmu.edu<mailto:marie.kennedy at lmu.edu><mailto:marie.kennedy at lmu.edu<mailto:marie.kennedy at lmu.edu>>
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Heidi E. K. Senior
Reference/Instruction Librarian
Clark Library
University of Portland
Portland, OR 97203
senior at up.edu<>503-943-8037
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