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Library Juice Press Annual Paper Contest

Entries must be submitted by August 1st, to [log in to unmask]
For more information:
https://litwinbooks.com/grants-and-awards/paper-contest/

The intention of this contest is to encourage and reward good work in the
field of library and information studies, humanistically understood,
through a monetary award and public recognition.

The contest is open to librarians, library students, academics, and others.

Acceptable paper topics cover the full range of topics in the field of
library and information studies, loosely defined.

Papers submitted may be pending publication or published (formally or
informally) in the past year. Unpublished papers are acceptable if they are
publicly accessible (informally published) and written in the past year.

Single and multiple-authored papers will be accepted.

Any type of paper may be entered as long as it is not a report of an
empirical study. Examples of accepted forms would be literature review
essays, analytical essays, historical research, and personal essays. The
work may include some informal primary research, but may not be essentially
a report of a study.

Submitted papers may be part of a larger project.

The minimum length is 2000 words. The maximum length is 10,000 words.

Criteria for judgment:

Clarity of writing
Originality of thought
Sincerity of effort at reaching something true
Soundness of argumentation (where applicable)
Relevance to our time and situation

The award shall consist of $1000 and a certificate suitable for framing.

The winning paper, and possibly a number of honorable mentions, are
announced on October 1st.

Papers will be judged by a committee selected for their accomplishments in
the field. The jury uses a blind process in which identifying information
is removed from the submitted papers.

Although we are a publisher, submission of a paper for this award in itself
does not imply any transfer, licensing, or sharing of your publication
rights.

Past winners

2020 – Jeanie Austin & Melissa Villa-Nicholas, for “Information Provision
and the Carceral State: Race and Reference beyond the Idea of the
‘Underserved,’” published in the journal The Reference Librarian in 2019.

2019 – Karen Nicholson, for “On the Space/Time of Information Literacy,
Higher Education, and the Global Knowledge Economy,” published in the
Journal of Critical Library and Information Studies in 2019.

2018 – Gracen Brilmyer, for “Archival assemblages: applying disability
studies’ political/relational model to archival description,” published in
Archival Science in 2018.

2017 – David James Hudson, for “On ‘Diversity’ as Anti-Racism in Library
and Information Studies: A Critique,” published in the Journal of Critical
Library and Information Studies in 2017.

2016 – Lisa Sloniowski, for “Affective Labor, Resistance, and the Academic
Librarian,” published in Library Trends in 2016.

2015 – James Lowry, for “Information and the Social Contract,” unpublished
at the time of award.

2014 – Michelle Caswell, for “Inventing New Archival Imaginaries:
Theoretical Foundations for Identity-Based Community Archives,” published
as a chapter in Identity Palimpsests: Archiving Ethnicity in the United
States and Canada, Litwin Books, 2014.

2013 – Ryan Shaw, for “Information Organization and the Philosophy of
History,” published in JASIST in June 2013.