Excellence in Scholarship & Excellence in Student Scholarship Awards

SUNYLA Call for Nominations

Did you or a colleague publish a paper last year? Give a conference presentation that was a career highlight? Upload a coding project to GitHub that could change the way students interact with library resources?

The SUNYLA Professional Development Committee is seeking nominations for the inaugural Excellence in Scholarship & Excellence in Student Scholarship awards.

Scholarship eligible for these awards was published, presented, handed in, or otherwise fixed in a sharable forum during the 2022 calendar year.

Nominations and self-nominations are welcome.

 

To be eligible for the Excellence in Scholarship award,
One of the creators must be:

  • A SUNYLA member (non-student)
  • Author or part of an authorship group which generated a work, such as a
    • Published paper
    • Conference paper or recorded presentation
    • Work fixed in a sharable medium (e.g. code uploaded to an open access repository)

The nominated work must have been:

  • The nominated work must have been published, presented, or made available in a fixed sharable medium during the 2022 calendar year to be eligible for the award presented at the 2023 Annual Conference

 

To be eligible for the Excellence in Student Scholarship award,
One of the creators must be:

  • A student pursuing a degree at an American Library Association-accredited graduate program in New York State
  • Author or part of an authorship group which generated a work
    • Created as part of coursework, or
    • Created for publication, presentation, or other public distribution (e.g. code uploaded to an open access repository)

The nominated work must have been:

  • The nominated work must have been created, published, or presented during the 2022 calendar year to be eligible for the award presented at the 2023 Annual Conference

 

Awards include a cash prize and an opportunity to present at the SUNYLA Annual Conference.

To submit a nomination, please complete the form here:

Nomination Form: Excellence in Scholarship Award
Nomination Form: Excellence in Student Scholarship Award

Questions can be submitted to Rebecca Hewitt, hewittr@sunypoly.edu