The North American Serials Interest Group (NASIG) is pleased to announce the beginning of the application cycle for its 2013 grants, awards, and scholarships to be awarded at the 2013 Annual Conference being held in Buffalo, New York, June 6-9, 2013.  Established in 1985, NASIG is an international organization committed to promoting communication and sharing of ideas among all people working with or concerned about serial publications.  More information about NASIG is available at http://www.nasig.org.

John Riddick Student Grant

Grants for qualifying students to attend the NASIG annual conference, covering cost of registration, three nights lodging, and travel within North America.

For more details, please visit the following page:

http://www.nasig.org/about_awards_studentgrant.cfm

Serials Specialist Award

Awards for promising paraprofessionals, covering cost of conference registration, three nights lodging, and travel within North America.

For more details, please visit the following page:

http://www.nasig.org/about_awards_specialist.cfm

Marcia Tuttle International Award

A $3,000 grant for an individual working in the serials information chain to fund appropriate activities in fostering international communication and education.

For more details, please visit the following page:

http://www.nasig.org/about_awards_tuttle.cfm

Horizon Award

Awards for promising new serials professionals, covering cost of conference registration, three nights lodging, and travel within North America.  Recipients will also be invited to serve on a NASIG committee.

For more details, please visit the following page:

http://www.nasig.org/about_awards_horizon.cfm

Fritz Schwartz Education Scholarship

A $3,000 scholarship and conference travel grant for a graduate student demonstrating excellence in scholarship and the potential for accomplishments in a serials career.

For more details, please visit the following page:

http://www.nasig.org/about_awards_schwartz.cfm

Rose Robischon Scholarship

A scholarship awarded to a serials professional lacking funds for travel. The scholarship covers the cost of conference registration, three nights lodging, and travel within North America.

For more details, please visit the following page:

http://www.nasig.org/about_awards_robischon2.cfm

John Merriman Joint NASIG/UKSG Award

A $6,000 award supports two people, one from each association, and consists of travel to the sister conference, and accommodations for the duration of the conference. The purpose of this conference-swap is for people working at a practical level in e-resource management to learn and share experience at the UKSG and NASIG annual conferences.

For more details, please visit the following page:

http://www.nasig.org/about_awards_merriman.cfm

The application deadline for the above-listed awards, except the John Merriman Joint NASIG/UKSG Award, is February 20, 2013; the deadline for the John Merriman Award is February 1, 2013.  For details about the awards offered by NASIG, please visit http://www.nasig.org/about_awards.cfm

From the ALA OITP:

In an article published yesterday, Alan S. Inouye, director of the American Library Association’s Office for Information Technology Policy, announced that staff members from the ALA tech policy office will serve as guest writers for Digital Book World.

The blog will feature various perspectives from the library community on the e-book marketplace, as well as the implications for libraries.

“The once clear and sequential lines from author to publisher to distributor to retailer to end user are now blurred and promise to become re-invented,” Inouye said in the article. “These changes throughout the publishing ecosystem also portend strategic re-alignment for libraries and their roles in society. Revolutions indeed.”

Read more of the article.

Read the blog:http://www.digitalbookworld.com/2013/beyond-the-headlines-e-books-in-libraries-of-the-future/ 

From the ALA Chapter Relations Office:

As you may know, the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project is in the midst of a multi-year study exploring the changing role of libraries in the digital age, funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Our major report on “Libraries, Patrons, and E-books” was enriched by many fascinating insights from the online panels that so many librarians participated in. (That report and many others are available online at a special section of our website at libraries.pewinternet.org.) We are now in the midst of the next phase of our research, and we need your help!

Our current phase of research explores the experiences and expectations of library usersundefinedhow they use their libraries, what services they utilize the most, and what resources they wish their libraries offered. We’ve already completed a nationally representative phone survey of Americans 16 and older about their library habits, but we are also fielding a purely qualitative online questionnaire targeted at library staff members in order to provide more context about how libraries make decisions about services and programming.

This questionnaire is for any and all staff members at public libraries. It briefly discusses various types of services and resources, and invites you to share your thoughts about the current (and future) state of libraries. The questionnaire is available at:

http://libraries.pewinternet.org/participate/survey/library-services

To log in, please use your preferred email address as your username; the password is PEWLIBS.

Depending on the length of your answers, the survey should take about 10-20 minutes to complete; please feel free to skip any questions that you do not feel able to answer. The questionnaire will be available until Sunday, December 23rd.

All responses will be confidential, although your answers may be quoted anonymously in a series of reports in early 2013. If you have any questions, please contact Kathryn Zickuhr at kzickuhr@pewinternet.org. We know that this is a busy time of year, and would greatly appreciate your time and assistance.

Thank you!

Congratulations to DCLA member and Past President (2005-2006) Kathryn Ray for being featured in this week's Washington Post Magazine for her work with the League of Women Voters of the District of Columbia. 

Our members are vibrant and committed actors in the DC Metro area. Do you have a story you would like to share with the DCLA community? Post a message to the listserv, or contact the Board.