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Award for Student Scholarship

Purpose

The purpose of the award is to recognize outstanding student scholarship, one of the goals of Beta Phi Mu, the international library and information science honor society. One award is made each academic year, with the possibility of multiple awards, at the discretion of the Beta Phi Mu Chi Chapter Executive Board.

Conditions

• Faculty in the IU School of Library and Information Science may nominate work done by master’s degree students. Nominations from adjunct faculty are welcome.
• The form and content of nominated works is open. The only requirement is that the work be submitted in a universally accessible format.
• Nominated papers or projects are evaluated on their contributions to scholarship in library and information science.
• Selection of the outstanding work will be made by the Beta Phi Mu Chi Chapter Executive Board.
• The award will be given at the Chi Chapter Initiation and Awards Ceremony. The recipient will present the work at an open forum.
• Nominations can be made at any time prior to May 1 in the academic year in which the award is granted.
• Recognition will include a monetary award of $200.
• Student award work will be mounted on the Chi Chapter Web page, where award recipients will be identified.
• All nominated work will be retained by SLIS as examples of outstanding student papers, which can be used as documentation for master's program accreditation.

List of Annual Award Winners:

2008/2009 Winner

• Information Access
  by Shannon Oltmann

2007/2008 Winner

• Slam Poetry and the Poetry Slam: A Research Guide
  by Rebekah J. Wiesenhofer

2006/2007 Winner

• The Monroe County Public Library: Its Place in the Community
  by Ellen Rubenstein

2005/2006 Winner

• Librarianship in the Information Age: Do We Need Librarians?
  by Rachel Radom

2004/2005 Winner

• Abstention from the Electronic Commons: Autonomy versus Universal Service
  by Sarah B. Cornell

2003/04 Winner

• An Exploratory Study of the Differences between Face-To-Face and Computer-mediated Reference Interactions
  by Charlotte Ford

2002/03 Winner

• Privatization and Access to Information : A Policy Analysis of OMB and GPO
  by Heather M. Smedberg

2001/02 Winner

• User-Based Approach to Cognitive Walkthrough and Heuristic Evaluation
  by Natalia A. Minibayeva

2000/01 Winner

• Reading Engagement: What Influences the Choice to Read?
  by Kirsten D. M. Kowalewski

1999/00 Winner

• User-oriented Evaluation in HCI and IR: Methods, Measures, and Multidimensional Approaches
  by Phil Sager

1998/99 Winner

• Designing World Wide Web Search Engine Interfaces that Aid Users in Implementing Boolean-Modified Search Queries and Design Diary, both by Michael Peterson

1997/98 Winner

• Web-Site Sensitivity to Privacy Concerns: Collecting Personally Identifiable Information and Passing Persistent Cookies by Bill Helling
• Other 1997/98 Nominees
• Portrayal of People with Disabilities in Children's Literature: 1940s to 1980s by Maeleah Carlisle
• Web Design and HCI: Problems and Promises by Patrick J. Dawson
• Chinese Film in the 1930s by Jean Su

1996/97 Winners

• "What a Stillness Full from Thinking!" Jewish Women Immigrants' Motivation in Library Use and Reading by Joyce B. Adams
• Handedness, Individual Differences, and Human-Computer Interaction by John Gregory Hibbard