(via Emily Gilbert, IACRL Past President)
The Illinois Association of College & Research Libraries (IACRL) Awards Committee is seeking submissions for the People’s Choice Award in Scholarly Publishing. This award will give academic and research librarians throughout Illinois the opportunity to read and evaluate scholarly works by their peers and then vote on a favorite. It will also present Illinois research and academic librarians with the opportunity to share their findings outside of a conference or other formal setting. IACRL welcomes submissions on all subjects relevant to Illinois academic and research libraries.
The criteria for submissions, along with the process for choosing winners, can be found here. The deadline for submitting a scholarly work is 5:00 PM Central Time on Friday, February 10. Please send your submission to Emily Gilbert, IACRL Awards Committee Chair, at emilygil@uic.edu. If possible, send a link to the scholarly work; otherwise, submit it as an attachment, preferably as a PDF or in Word. If the work does not already contain an abstract or summary, please include one in the e-mail (a paragraph would suffice).
Once the Awards Committee has received the submissions and confirmed that they meet the criteria, voting will take place via electronic ballot in February or March. Voting will last for 30 days. The Awards Committee will then announce the winners, and those individuals will have the opportunity to present their work in a special webinar or at a future meeting of the IACRL Journal Club.
If you have any questions, please contact Emily Gilbert at emilygil@uic.edu. Thank you very much.