CLA Library Research and Development Grant Awarded

(Ottawa, May 20, 2010) The Research & Development Committee of CLA is pleased to announce a $1,000 award to Allan Wilson & John Shepherd in support of their research project “Performance Metrics: A Board Level View of Library Performance”.   This award will help cover costs related to research into public library performance measures, which the committee believes may eventually have applications for academic and other libraries.

Mr. Wilson is the Chief Librarian for the Prince George Public Library and Mr. Shepherd is a doctoral student and works in the School of Business at Kwantlen Polytechnic University.

The Canadian Library Association / Association canadienne des bibliothèques is Canada’s largest national and broad-based library association, representing the interests of public, academic, school and special libraries, professional librarians and library workers, and all those concerned about enhancing the quality of life of Canadians through information and literacy.

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Spiteri, Tarulli Awarded OCLC/ALISE Library and Information Science Research Grant

Louise Spiteri, Ph.D. of the School of Information Management at Dalhousie University and Laurel Tarulli of Halifax Public Libraries have been awarded a 2010 OCLC/ALISE Library and Information Science Research Grant.

The awards were presented in January during the ALISE 2010 Annual Conference Awards Reception in Boston, Massachusetts.

Louise Spiteri, Ph.D. of the School of Information Management at Dalhousie University and Laurel Tarulli of Halifax Public Libraries will conduct research to examine and compare how library users access, use, and interact with two social discovery systems used in two Canadian public library systems. The objective of the study, “The Public Library Catalogue as a Social Space: Usability Studies of User Interaction with Social Discovery Systems,” is to provide important insight into the design or modification of social discovery tools to ensure they provide the best user experience.

OCLC/ALISE Library and Information Science Research Grants support research that advances librarianship and information science, promotes independent research to help librarians integrate new technologies into areas of traditional competence, and contributes to a better understanding of the library environment.

Source: http://www.oclc.org/us/en/news/releases/2010/201010.htm

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Editor’s Note: Louise Spiteri and Laurel Tarulli will be speaking at the 2010 Canadian Library Association Conference.

Session D27 – Library Catalogues as Social Spaces: A Shift in the Perception of the Public Library Catalogue and Its Function in Libraries
This session will survey the social catalogues currently available and examine the impact of social catalogues on the extent to which library users and staff can efficiently access, use and interact with the public library catalogue.

CLA Library Research and Development Grants

Are you conducting research in the field of library and information services?

The Canadian Library Association can help!

Each year CLA awards one or more research and development grants totalling $1,000 to personal members of the Association.

These grants:

• support theoretical and applied research in the field of library and information services.
• encourage and support research undertaken by practitioners in the field of library and information services
• promote research in the field of library and information services by and/or about Canadians

Recently supported research projects have included:

• A Qualitative Analysis of Public Library Architecture and the Use of Public Space in Libraries by Persons Experiencing Homelessness
• Working Together: Brock University Library’s New Learning Commons
• Living History: The Survival of Carnegie Libraries in Ontario;
• Building an Effective M-library to Support Mobile Learning;
• Studying the Use of Research Leave Provisions by Canadian Academic Librarians;
• History of the Library of Parliament; and
• Internet Access Policies of Canadian Libraries in the Public Sector.

The deadline to submit your proposal is February 28th, 2010.

For more information please visit http://www.cla.ca/awards/grants.htm

Call for Proposals: CLA Library Research and Development Grants

Are you conducting research in the field of library and information services?

The Canadian Library Association can help!

Each year CLA awards one or more research and development grants totalling $1,000 to personal members of the Association.

These grants:

• support theoretical and applied research in the field of library and information services.
• encourage and support research undertaken by practitioners in the field of library and information services
• promote research in the field of library and information services by and/or about Canadians

Recently supported research projects have included:

• Working Together: Brock University Library’s New Learning Commons;
• Living History: The Survival of Carnegie Libraries in Ontario;
• Building an Effective M-library to Support Mobile Learning;
• Studying the Use of Research Leave Provisions by Canadian Academic Librarians;
• History of the Library of Parliament; and
• Internet Access Policies of Canadian Libraries in the Public Sector.

The deadline to submit your proposal is February 28th, 2010.

For more information please visit the CLA website.