Miriam Braverman Memorial Award
Presented by the Progressive Librarians Guild
Seeks papers concerned with an aspect of the social responsibilities of librarians, libraries, or librarianship.
2008 SUBMISSION GUIDELINES (download PDF)
§ Entrants must be Library/Information Science students attending a graduate level program in the United States or Canada.
§ Entries must be the original, unpublished work of the entrant, in English, and must not exceed 3,000 words.
§ The topic of the paper should concern an aspect of the social responsibilities of librarians, libraries, or librarianship. Papers related to archivists, archives, or archival work are also acceptable. Topics could include, but are not limited to, such concerns as professional ethics in the age of the USA PATRIOT Act; information as a commodity; the political value choices of cataloging and indexing; the role of libraries in bridging the information gap; democratic management systems within libraries, etc.
§ To facilitate the double-blind review process, each entry should include a cover sheet containing the entrant's name, full contact information (address, phone number, e-mail address), name of the institution where the entrant is enrolled, and the title of the paper. No identifying information, other than the title, should appear on the paper itself.
§ Entries must be submitted electronically, in MS Word or RTF format, to bravermansubmissions@gmail.com.
§ The winning entry will be published in Progressive Librarian and must conform to MLA in-text citation style. The winning entrant will also receive a $300 stipend toward attendance at the 2008 American Library Association annual conference in Anaheim, CA, and an award at the annual PLG dinner. Award money is available only for ALA conference attendance; if the winner is unable to attend, the money will remain in the Braverman Award fund account or be donated at the discretion of the committee.
§ The judges' decision is final. The act of submission implies the unqualified acceptance of the conditions of entry by the entrant.
Any questions regarding the judging process can be directed to the current committee chair, Terry Epperson at epperson@tcnj.edu.
Entries must be received no later than 6:00 p.m. EST on April 15, 2008
Miriam Ruth Gutman Braverman (1920-2002) was a socialist, activist librarian and longstanding member of the Progressive Librarians Guild, a founder of the Social Responsibilities Round Table, and a proponent of the social responsibilities perspective. Miriam's spirit of activism and faith in the power of people's collective efforts toward social justice is what the Miriam Braverman Award is intended to foster in future generations of librarians.
