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Paper-writing competition for developing-country librarians

LMD Competition 2002–3

The Special Libraries Association (SLA), Leadership and Management Division (LMD) announces an international paper competition.

Prize for winner

One person will be selected to win the following:

• a two-year membership in SLA, with membership in the LMD Division, a membership in the International Information Exchange (KIIE) Caucus, and in an SLA Chapter
• publication of your paper
• a travel grant to attend the SLA June 2003 Conference in New York City, NY, USA
• presentation of your paper at an LMD session

Eligibility

A special librarian who is from and currently working in a developing country (a country with an average personal income of US$5185 or less), as defined by the World Bank's Countries Ranked by Per Capita Income, July, 2002. http://www1.worldbank.org/operations/WBOPCS/preports/Report_annex_D1.asp

Project

The theme of the paper, written in English in 1000 to 3000 words, is: 'The application of leadership and management principles and strategies to a library, information service, information product, or knowledge service in which I have been involved.'

Criteria for judging

• Sound knowledge of these principles applied to your own experience in your country, or in other developing countries in which you have worked or are working with colleagues
• innovative approaches that have worked
• communication techniques and strategies that have worked
• inclusion of Lessons learned, good and bad

You will not be judged on the perfection of your use of English. In the case of multiple authors, the first author will be awarded the prize for the winner.

Opportunities for non-winners

Some of the papers will be selected and offered to SLA for publication and others will be offered to science and technology libraries and the LMD Library Management Quarterly for publication. Head of this initiative is Wei Wei, Computer Science Librarian, University of California Santa Cruz.

Judges

Daan Boom, Knowledge Manager, KPMG, Amsterdam; Donna Scheeder, Deputy Asst Director, Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress, Washington, DC; and Sue O'Neill Johnson, Consultant, Potomac, Md.

Deadline

Papers are to be submitted electronically to Wei Wei, wwei@cats.ucsc.edu no later than midnight February 28, 2003.

Winner announcement

The Committee will announce the winner by April 1, 2003.

About the SLA

Headquartered in Washington, DC, USA, the Special Libraries Association (SLA) is the international association representing the interests of thousands of information professionals in 60 countries. The association offers a variety of programs and services designed to help its members serve their customers more effectively and succeed in an increasingly challenging global information arena. SLA is committed to the professional growth and success of its membership.

Sue O'Neill Johnson
Email: sueojohnson@hotmail.msn.com
Tel: +1 301-299-8268
Fax: +1 301-299-5384
Postal address: 8505 Victory Lane, Potomac, MD 20854, USA

[HIF-net at WHO profile: Sue Johnson is retired from the World Bank and currently works to assist librarians in developing countries to get published, association memberships and travel grants. sueojohnson@msn.com]

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