seeking applicants for joint Institute on Scholarly=09Communication; scholarships available

["Kara Malenfant" <kmalenfant@ala.org>]

Due to strong interest, the Association of College and Research
Libraries (ACRL) along with the Association for Research
Libraries (ARL) will offer a second Institute on Scholarly
Communication December 6-8, 2006, at Duke University, Durham, NC.
The inaugural institute, being held at UCLA in July, had far more
applicants than could be accommodated. The deadline for
application is August 15, 2006. Acceptance to the Scholarly
Communication program is competitive and limited to 100
individuals.

The Friends of ACRL are supporting 4 scholarships to cover the
$600 registration fee for the institute. Scholarships will be
awarded to team member(s) from diverse backgrounds and those
employed at smaller institutions or serving professionally
underrepresented minorities. Awards will be determined during the
application review and announced to recipients along with
acceptance to the Institute. Details on applying for a
scholarship are noted in the application.

During the institute, participants will expand their knowledge of
scholarly communication issues by:

*   Building expertise for their libraries and campuses
*   Designing a collaborative program for their institutions
*   Exploring strategies for creating systemic change
*   Discovering new approaches for engaging faculty

This jointly sponsored institute offers tools and techniques to
build a scholarly communication program or move an existing one
to the next level. Participants will assess their campus
environment before the institute and engage in 2 1/2 intensive
days of active learning. During the institute, participants will
develop customized program plan components to implement at their
home institutions.

The Institute sponsors are seeking participation from a wide
range of academic libraries from community colleges to large
research institutions. A competitive application process will be
used to assemble a cohort for the December Institute. Team
applications are encouraged (up to three participants from a
campus), although individual applications will be considered.
Larger institutions, especially, are encouraged to propose teams
that reflect various institutional perspectives, such as
librarians, library administrators, faculty, campus
administrators, etc. Applicants should articulate realistic goals
for a campus plan and demonstrate institutional support for, or
readiness to support, a plan. Recognizing the challenges smaller
institutions face in participating in the Institute and the value
of their contributions to outreach efforts, small institutions
will not be penalized in the selection process if they are only
able to fund individual participants rather than teams.

Complete details about the program as well as the online
application form and instructions can be found at
www.ala.org/acrl/events (Click ACRL/ARL Institute on Scholarly
Communication).

Applicants can direct questions concerning the program or
application process to Kara Malenfant at 312-280-2510;
kmalenfant@ala.org or Karla Hahn at 202-296-2296; karla@arl.org.

ACRL is a division of the American Library Association (ALA),
representing more than 13,000 academic and research librarians
and interested individuals. ACRL is the only individual
membership organization in North America that develops programs,
products and services to meet the unique needs of academic and
research librarians. Its initiatives enable the higher education
community to understand the role that academic libraries play in
the teaching, learning and research environments.

ARL is an association of over 120 of the largest research
libraries in North America. The member institutions serve over
160,000 faculty researchers and scholars and more than 4 million
students in the U.S. and Canada. ARL's mission is to influence
the changing environment of scholarly communication and the
public policies that affect research libraries and the
communities they serve. ARL pursues this mission by advancing the
goals of its member research libraries, providing leadership in
public and information policy to the scholarly and higher
education communities, fostering the exchange of ideas and
expertise, and shaping a future environment that leverages its
interests with those of allied organizations.

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