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CFP: http://www.ala.org/template.cfm?template=/CFApps/awards_info/award_detail_info.cfm&FilePublishTitle=Awards,%20Grants%20and%20Scholarships&uid=BAD7E77589E57CA4

Deadline: December 2012

Administered by RUSA and sponsored by Emerald Publishing, this grant is awarded to individuals seeking support to conduct research in business librarianship. Two $5000 awards are presented during each of the first two years after the establishment of the award, with the total amount awarded at $10,000 each year and $20,000 total for the two years. Award recipient must be an ALA member or at least one member of a collaborative team must be an ALA member. Proposals are accepted from both individual researchers and those working collaboratively.

CFP: http://www.ala.org/alcts/ianda/transcol

Deadline: May 15, 2012

The ALCTS Transforming Collections Microgrant Program is designed to support and encourage innovative practices, emerging technologies, and innovation in collections. The microgrants are intended to support small projects or research initiatives in support of transforming collections. Two microgrants up to $1,500 will be funded annually.

Criteria

• Microgrant proposals should include a statement describing how the project or research initiative supports transforming collections.
• The microgrant proposal is to include a clear and concise description of the project or research initiative.
• The microgrant proposal is to include a preliminary budget.^*
• Microgrant proposals will be reviewed for their completeness, clarity, and statement of support of ALCTS efforts to foster innovation in collections.
• All ALCTS members in good standing are eligible to submit a proposal.
• Each microgrant proposal must have one designated principal investigator. Coprincipals are acceptable.

Guidelines

• Proposals are to be submitted to the ALCTS Transforming Collections Task Force^** by May 15, 2012.
• Microgrant proposals should be no more than one page in length.
• Microgrant recipients will be announced and microgrant information posted on the ALCTS web site by July 1, 2012.
• Each microgrant recipient will submit a brief midyear budget update and progress report.
• Each microgrant is to be completed within one year of notification of funding concluding with a concise report of finding, in any form appropriate, to the ALCTS Transforming Collections Task Force by June 30, 2013.
• Each micro grant report of finding will be distributed to the ALCTS membership.

CFP: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2011/nsf11587/nsf11587.htm

Letter of Intent: May 14, 2012

Through the Cyberlearning: Transforming Education program, NSF seeks to integrate advances in technology with advances in what is known about how people learn to

• better understand how people learn with technology and how technology can be used productively to help people learn, through individual use and/or through collaborations mediated by technology;

• better use technology for collecting, analyzing, sharing, and managing data to shed light on learning, promoting learning, and designing learning environments; and

• design new technologies for these purposes, and advance understanding of how to use those technologies and integrate them into learning environments so that their potential is fulfilled.

Of particular interest are technological advances that allow more personalized learning experiences, draw in and promote learning among those in populations not served well by current educational practices, allow access to learning resources anytime and anywhere, and provide new ways of assessing capabilities. It is expected that Cyberlearning research will shed light on how technology can enable new forms of educational practice and that broad implementation of its findings will result in a more actively-engaged and productive citizenry and workforce.

Cyberlearning awards will be made in three research categories, each focusing on a different stage of research and development: Exploratory (EXP), Design and Implementation (DIP), and Integration and Deployment (INDP). The Cyberlearning program will also support small Capacity-Building Projects (CAP) and a Cyberlearning Resource Center (CRC).

CFP: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2012/nsf12538/nsf12538.htm

Awards: 25-60 from $5,000,000 total funding

Deadline: May 22, 2012

As part of NSF’s Cyberinfrastructure Framework for 21st Century Science and Engineering (CIF21) activity, the Directorate for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE), the Directorate for Education and Human Resources (EHR), and the Office of Cyberinfrastructure seek to enable research communities to develop visions, teams, and capabilities dedicated to creating new, large-scale, next-generation data resources and relevant analytic techniques to advance fundamental research for the SBE and EHR sciences. Successful proposals will outline activities that will have significant impacts across multiple fields by enabling new types of data-intensive research. Investigators should think broadly and create a vision that extends intellectually across multiple disciplines and that includes–but is not limited to–the SBE or EHR sciences.

The purpose of this announcement is to encourage submission of proposals for activities that will enable communities to develop visions for next-generation data and specific areas of research these data would enable; to build research and management teams for the integration of research, data, and data infrastructure, including automated and other analysis tools; and to prototype aspects of a proposed next-generation infrastructure. Workshop proposals, two or three-year Research Coordination Network proposals, and regular unsolicited proposals are all appropriate mechanisms for achieving these capacity-building goals. Submitted proposals should focus on the development of communities and infrastructure within which identified research may effectively proceed rather than the conduct of research itself.

Successful proposals will outline activities that will have significant impacts across multiple fields by enabling new types of data-intensive research. Investigators should think broadly and create a vision that extends intellectually across multiple disciplines and that includes–but is not limited to–the SBE or EHR sciences. Proposals will need to describe the bodies of next-generation data that will be involved in the infrastructure. Investigators should think creatively about data and consider new data collections, repurposed existing data, and new approaches to data as appropriate for the research questions of interest. Novel approaches are encouraged.

CFP: http://www.in.gov/library/3729.htm

Deadline: February 12, 2012

Awards: Max $15,000 of $150,000 total funding for digitization (theme: The Indiana Bicentennial); Max. $10,000 of $150,000 total funding for technology (10% cost share required)

The Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) was signed into law September 30, 1996 as part of the Museum and Library Services Act. As a result, federal LSTA funds are distributed from the Institute of Museum and Library Services to states for the purposes of increasing the use of technology in libraries, fostering better resource sharing among libraries, and targeting library services to special populations. For more information about the current IMLS five-year plan, please visit the IMLS website.

The Indiana State Library manages distribution of LSTA funds according to an IMLS-approved five-year plan for the funds (also read the formal evaluation of the 2003-2007 five-year plan). Visit LSTA Supports Indiana Libraries to learn about the LSTA-funded statewide services and sub-grants offered by the Indiana State Library.

CFP: http://www.ala.org/ala/aboutala/offices/ors/orsawards/baberresearchgrant/babercarroll.cfm

Deadline: December 12, 2011

Award: $3,000

The American Library Association (ALA) gives an annual grant for those conducting research that will lead to the improvement of services to users.  The Carroll Preston Baber Research Grant is given to one or more librarians or library educators who will conduct innovative research that could lead to an improvement in services to any specified group of people.

The grant, up to $3,000, will be given to a proposed project that aims to answer a question of vital importance to the library community that is national in scope. Among the review panel criteria are:

1) The research problem is clearly defined, with a specific question or questions that can be answered by collecting data.
2) The applicant(s) clearly describe a strategy for data collection whose methods are appropriate to the research question(s). A review of the literature, methodologies, etc. is not considered research (e.g., methodology review rather than application of a methodology) for purposes of the award, except where the literature review is the primary method of collecting data.
3) The research question focuses on benefits to library users and should be applied and have practical value as opposed to theoretical.
4) The applicant(s) demonstrate ability to undertake and successfully complete the project.
5) The application provides evidence that sufficient time and resources have been allocated to the effort. Appropriate institutional commitment to the project has been secured.

Any ALA member may apply, and the Jury would welcome projects that involve both a practicing librarian and a researcher.

CFP: http://www07.grants.gov/search/search.do?&mode=VIEW&oppId=129933

Deadline: December 5, 2011

Awards: 20 (max. $800,000) from $10,000,000

This program will assist community-based organizations, higher education institutions and eligible tribal entities in providing outreach and technical assistance to socially disadvantaged farmers and ranchers. The overall goal of the OASDFR Program is to assist socially disadvantaged farmers and ranchers in a linguistically appropriate manner in owning and operating farms, ranches and non-industrial forest lands while increasing their participation in agricultural programs provided by USDA.

CFP: http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/digitalhumanitiesimplementation.html

Deadline: January 24, 2012

Awards: 3-5 awards of $100,000 to $325,000 for 1-3 years

CFP: http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=504705&org=OCI&sel_org=OCI&from=fund

Deadline: January 31, 2012

Awards: 1-2 awards, $400,000 to $1,000,000 each.

The American National Election Studies (ANES), General Social Survey (GSS) and Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) are long-term survey projects that form key research infrastructure for the social and behavioral sciences. The value of these three projects depends in part on data accessibility and ease of use. These data dissemination activities provide value far beyond the original data collection effort. That value consists of providing access and tools that enable dissemination to a wide range of user communities– from social scientists to advance knowledge and test theories, to teachers in secondary schools to explain basic statistical and analytic methods, to citizens outside of the higher education and research communities who use the data to generate basic descriptive statistics and graphs.

The ANES is a 60-year time series of survey data collections that began in 1948. The ANES conducts national surveys of the American electorate during election years as well as conducts research and development work through pilot studies. The ANES is considered the ‘gold standard’ data source for election studies; it sheds light on how American democracy works by exploring the causes and consequences of citizen opinion, vote choices, and electoral outcomes. The GSS has provided data on contemporary American society since 1972, serving as a barometer of social change and trends in attitudes, behaviors, and attributes of the United States adult population. The GSS is a nationally representative personal interview survey of the United States adult population that collects data on a wide range of behavioral items, personal psychological evaluations, and demographic characteristics of respondents and their parents. Lastly, the PSID is a longitudinal survey of a nationally representative sample of US families that began in 1968. The PSID is the world’s longest running nationally representative panel survey. With over forty years of data on the same families and their descendents, the PSID is considered a cornerstone of the data infrastructure for empirically-based social science research in the US and the world.

Over the course of the extensive survey cycles the three survey projects have accumulated important metadata, or “data about data” including technical reports, survey instruments and other information that describe the survey process. These metadata exist in many different formats (text and non-text-based) and have been stored in different ways depending on the date of the original data collection, the available technologies at that date (paper, scanned into PDF, and other formats), and access to storage facilities. Currently, these metadata are not in a format that allows for easy analysis within any one survey and the surveys do not have common data formats that would enable analysis of data across surveys. The lack of metadata limits the usefulness of the legacy data from early survey waves. Researchers interested in using the data under current conditions must invest significant time and effort to understand the data structure. This limits the ability of interdisciplinary scientists to analyze data from two or more of the surveys. And finally it limits the availability of the survey results from all three surveys to the broad public that is interested in questions about democracy, family well being, and social attitudes.

This solicitation seeks proposals that will develop tools to bridge data collection and dissemination by first, collecting and coding metadata associated with future waves of the ANES, GSS, and PSID surveys as collection and processing techniques evolve; and second, migrating (or “retrofitting”) metadata associated with earlier (i.e., legacy) waves of these surveys into formats and schema that are compatible with current and future collection efforts. The goal is to fund projects that will help make the many years of legacy data available to researchers who seek to answer current scientific questions.

CFP: http://imls.gov/applicants/grants/nationalLeadership.shtm

Deadline: February 1, 2012

Grant Amount: Projects: $50,000–$1,000,000; Planning: $50,000
Grant Period: Up to three years for project, one year for planning grants

Cost share: 1:1 for requests over $250,000, except research projects. Cost sharing of at least one-third is encouraged for requests under $250,000 and for research projects.

Categories: Advancing Digital Resources, Research, Demonstration, and Library-Museum Collaboration, Planning.

National Leadership Grants support projects that have the potential to elevate museum and library practice. The Institute seeks to advance the ability of museums and libraries to preserve culture, heritage and knowledge while enhancing learning. IMLS welcomes proposals that promote the skills necessary to develop 21st century communities, citizens, and workers.

Successful proposals will have national impact and generate results—new tools, research, models, services, practices, or alliances—that can be widely adapted or replicated to extend the benefit of federal investment.