IATLIS Awards – Call for Nominations In the last general body meeting of the Indian Association of Teachers of Library and Information Science (IATLIS) held on 18 November 2010 at University of Pune, Pune, the increase in the number of LIS teachers and IATLIS members was highly appreciated. In view of the increase of LIS teachers and members, it was resolved to give the following awards on an annual basis. Therefore, IATLIS invites nominations from LIS teachers /professionals / researchers for the following two awards: 1. IATLIS – Motiwale Best LIS Teacher Award 2011 2. IATLIS – Mrs. Ratna Laxman Rao Best LIS Teacher / Professional Award 2011 3. IATLIS - Prof. S.P. Narang Research Promotion Award 2011 A. Eligibility for IATLIS – Motiwale Best LIS Teacher Award, and IATLIS – Mrs. Ratna Laxman Rao Best LIS Teacher / Professional Award: Executive Council Members of IATLIS are not eligible to be nominated for these awards. The nominee should have at least 10 years of teaching experience at the post-graduate level or 10 years professional experience at a senior level, and should be in service. A person can receive the award only once and one person can nominate only one LIS teacher / professional for each award at a time. B. Eligibility criteria for IATLIS - Prof. S.P. Narang Research Promotion Award to be given every alternate year to an LIS Teacher: The teacher must be in-service in a UGC recognized university on a full-time basis and must have at least 10 years of teaching and research experience in Library and Information Science. The following aspects of the research work during previous two years shall be considered for the award: Supervision of Ph.D. research work Research funding got from national and international bodies. Research papers published in peer-reviewed journals. Research publications that got citations. The recipient LIS teacher/researcher will be given a citation and a memento/shawl at the Annual IATLIS Conference. The nominations will be considered by an Awards Committee constituted by the IATLIS Executive Committee. An award will not be given in case majority of the Committee Members feel that no one has been found suitable for that award. Nominations in quadruplicate (four copies) with all the supporting documents should reach The General Secretary, IATLIS, Department of Library and Information Science, Punjabi University, Patiala 147002 (Punjab) on or before 15 November 2011. In addition to four copies of nominations in hard copy form, a soft copy of nominations should also be sent to the General Secretary, IATLIS by email at iatlis.patiala@gmail.com. No communication other than nominations will be entertained and the decision of the Awards Committee will be final. Dr. H.P.S. Kalra, Joint Secretary, IATLIS iatlis.patiala@gmail.com -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.