Subject: RE:  ACRL Lazerow award announcement
   Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 11:54:16 -0500
   From: Lynda Fuller Clendenning <lfc9k@virginia.edu>

      LAZEROW AWARD APPLICATION DEADLINE EXTENDED TO DEC. 17

     Samuel Lazerow Fellowship For Research in Collections and
     Technical Services in Academic and Research Libraries

     Award:
      $1,000 cash and a citation donated by the Institute for
     Scientific Information.

     Criteria
         The proposals will be judged with an emphasis on the
     following:
           Potential significance of the project to acquisitions or
     technical services work
           Originality and creativity
           Clarity and completeness of the proposal
           Evidence of an interest in scholarship (previous
     publication record)

     Application Procedure
       Brief proposals (five pages or less, double-spaced) should
     include the following:
         Description of research, travel, or writing project
         Schedule for project
         Estimate of expenses (e.g., travel, faxing, data analysis,
     computer time,
          photocopying, typing)
         An up-to-date curriculum vitae should accompany proposal

     Submissions
         Send eight (8) copies of the application to:
          Association of College and Research Libraries, Samuel
     Lazerow Fellowship,
          50 East Huron Street, Chicago, IL 60611.

      Submission Deadline: December 3  ****(EXTENDED UNTIL DEC.
     17)*****

      Awardee Obligation :  Recipients of the fellowship are
     required to
      submit a report of the results of their research to the
     Association of
      College and  Research Libraries (ACRL) for possible
     publication in
      C&RL News.

      Information & Assistance :   If you have questions or need
     help in compiling a nomination, please contact: Lynda
     Clendenning, Award Committee Chair at 170 Reas Ford Road,
     Earlysville, VA 22936, Phone: 804-924-6635, Fax: 804-924-3143,
     Email:  <mailto:lfc9k@virginia.edu or Stephanie Sherrod, ACRL
     Awards Program Assistant, at (800) 545-2433, ext. 2515,
     (312)280-2515 or via e-mail at  <mailto:ssherrod@ala.org   .

     Samuel Lazerow led a distinguished career as a major
     contributor to the advancement of information technology at
     the Library of Congress,  the National Library of Medicine,
     and the National Agriculture Library among others. He ended
     his career as Senior Vice-president at the Institute for
     Scientific Information.

     This award fosters advances in collections or technical
     services by providing fellowships to librarians for travel or
     writing in those fields.  Research projects in the compilation
     of
     bibliographies will not be supported by this fellowship.

     Sponsorship provided by: Institute for Scientific Information
     (ISI)