NDLTD is pleased to announce the winners of the ETD 2019 travel awards. The winners will receive financial support to attend ETD 2019, to be held in Porto, Portugal, from November 6th until November 8th, 2019.

The ETD2019 Travel Scholarship winners are:

Back in March, we were snowed out of presenting at the Transforming Libraries for Graduate Students conference, and we just couldn’t let all that preparation go to waste. So, we’d like to invite colleagues near and far to join us for an online presentation discussing our experience transforming the dissertation and thesis deposit procedure into a librarian-led scholarly communication consultation.

We hope you can make it, and we’re happy to answer questions on or off-list.

What:

“Not Just Degree-Seekers: Graduate Students as Scholarly Contributors”

Led by Jill Cirasella and Roxanne Shirazi

When:

Wednesday, December 19th

1-2pm EST (11am PST)

Where:

Zoom - Register here

Why:

Most graduate students are required to produce theses and dissertations that make an original contribution to the field of study. This requirement informs how students and faculty approach graduate research, but colleges and universities often treat the culminating works merely as student records, not scholarly contributions encompassing original research. Librarians, however, are uniquely situated to treat graduate students as emerging participants in the scholarly communication ecosystem and to help them prepare their culminating works for an outside audience. Librarians have the expertise to advise students during the submission process with questions regarding copyright, licensing, fair use, and author’s rights, as well as the awareness to spot such issues even when students are not aware of them.

Our institution recently moved responsibility for thesis and dissertation deposit from an administrative role to a librarian position. We will present our experience transforming the deposit process into a scholarly communication consultation, and will provide a first-hand report of the educational benefits of making deposit a library function, helmed by a copyright-literate librarian. This session will help participants identify how and where the thesis approval process takes place on their campuses, and strategize ways to insert librarian-led scholarly communication consultations into the graduation checklist.

Jill Cirasella is Associate Librarian for Public Services and Scholarly Communication at The Graduate Center, CUNY.

Roxanne Shirazi is Dissertation Research Librarian at The Graduate Center, CUNY.

NDLTD is pleased to announce the 2018 ETD Awards program.

Award Category Information, Procedures and Requirements:

Innovative ETD Award

The intent of this award is to support current graduate students in the creation of innovative ETDs. We anticipate students will use the award to assist in the purchase of specialized software, computer equipment or other technical support  needed in the production or publication of their ETD. Nominations for this award should indicate how the award will support the application and integration of renderings, photos, data sets, software code or other multimedia objects in the student’s ETD.

• A prospective thesis or dissertation may be nominated by a representative (e.g. administrator, faculty member or librarian) of an institution that is a member of the NDLTD.  
• Each NDLTD member may submit up to 2 nominees. In addition, a student from a member organisation may submit a self-nomination.
• The nomination should include their approved thesis proposal, along with a brief statement about how the work will use technology to enhance the presentation of the research in the forthcoming ETD. 
• The resulting ETD must be distributed online as open access upon publication.
• Students must provide an ORCID ID upon acceptance of the award. 
• There may be up to three winners in this category. 
• Each winner will receive $1,000* 
• Winners are required to record a video acceptance message (approximately 2 - 3 minutes) that may be presented at the annual symposium’s awards ceremony and distributed online, or provide an acceptance message in writing (500 words or less). 

Nominations may be made through the following online form: http://goo.gl/forms/LfISsu5ccl

ETD Leadership Award

This is open to individuals whose leadership and vision has helped raise awareness of the benefits of ETDs and whose efforts have improved graduate education through the use of ETDs. Nominations should include details about the individual's ETD related activities and how the nominee's leadership has made significant advances in the area of ETDs at the local, regional, national or international levels.

• The nominator or nominator’s institution must be affiliated as an NDLTD member. 
• There may be up to two winners for this category. 
• Each winner will receive international honorary recognition.
• Each winner will receive up to $500 reimbursement to attend the annual symposium
• Winners will also receive complimentary registration to the annual symposium in the year of award.
• If a winner is not a member of the NDLTD or associated with an institution which is not a member of the NDLTD they will be eligible for a 1 year complimentary (personal or institutional) membership.
• Winners are encouraged to do one of the following:
• attend the annual symposium's award ceremony and present a 3-5 minute acceptance speech, or
• record and submit a 3-5 minute video acceptance message to be presented at the annual symposium’s awards ceremony, or
• provide a written 500 word or less acceptance message to be read at the annual symposium's awards ceremony.

Nominations may be made through the following online form: http://goo.gl/forms/cRz6T1mf5O