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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> etd-l Discussion List [mailto:ETD-L@listserv.vt.edu]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>John Hagen<br>
<b>Sent:</b> 03 February 2014 04:29 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> ETD-L@LISTSERV.VT.EDU<br>
<b>Subject:</b> ETD Awards Nominations</span></p>
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<h3 style="margin:0cm; margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:21.5pt; font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; color:#5064AE">Call for Nominations – 2014 ETD Innovation & Leadership Awards</span></h3>
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<p style="margin-bottom:0cm; margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">The NDLTD's ETD Awards recognize innovative theses and dissertations and leadership within the ETD community. These awards are presented each year at the annual
ETD Symposium.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm; margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><br>
The Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (</span><a href="http://www.ndltd.org/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"; color:purple">NDLTD</span></a><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">) consortium
is pleased to announce the 2014 ETD Awards program. We invite all NDLTD members to nominate individuals they feel deserve the recognition!</span></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom:0cm; margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">The awards include several categories of appreciation.</span></p>
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<p style="margin-right:0cm; margin-bottom:12.0pt; margin-left:39.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Symbol">·</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt"> </span><b><i><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">The Innovative ETD Award</span></i></b><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""> recognizes
student efforts to transform the genre of the print dissertation through the use of innovative software to create multimedia ETDs. </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Symbol">·</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt"> </span><b><i><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">The ETD Leadership Award</span></i></b><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""> recognizes
members of the university community whose leadership and vision has helped raise awareness of the benefits of ETDs and whose efforts have improved graduate education and research through the use of ETDs.</span></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom:0cm; margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">The awards will be presented at the </span><a href="http://www2.le.ac.uk/library/etd2014/etd2014" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"; color:#283D88">ETD
2014 Symposium</span></a><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">, to be held July 23 - 25, 2014 at the University of Leicester in the UK.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm; margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""> </span></b></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm; margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Eligibility, Nomination Procedures and Evaluation Criteria</span></b></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm; margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""> </span></b></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Symbol">·</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt"> </span><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">The nominator and the nominee's University must be an </span><a href="http://www.ndltd.org/about/membership" target="_blank" title="NDLTD Members"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"; color:#283D88">NDLTD
member</span></a><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Symbol">·</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt"> </span><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Nominations will be reviewed by the NDLTD Awards Committee. Current members of the NDLTD Awards Committee are
not eligible for nomination.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Symbol">·</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt"> </span><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Winners are encouraged but not required to attend the ETD Symposium.</span></p>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Innovative ETD award winners will be eligible to receive up to U.S. $500 reimbursement towards the cost of their travel to attend the ETD Symposium. </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""> </span></p>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">We request that winners who cannot attend the Symposium record a video acceptance message (approximately 2 - 3 minutes) that can be presented at the Symposium Awards ceremony and distributed
online, or provide an acceptance message in writing (500 words or less).</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Symbol">·</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt"> </span><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Nomination letters should include:</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Courier New"">o</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt"> </span><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">A brief description (1,000 words or less) of background information and details of the merits of and
justification for the nomination.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Courier New"">o</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt"> </span><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Additional letters of support (i.e. from faculty, administration, students, Library or Graduate School
Dean, Provost, etc.).</span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm; margin-bottom:0cm; margin-left:75.0pt; margin-bottom:.0001pt">
<span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Courier New"">o</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt"> </span><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Complete contact information for both the nominator and nominee, including home and/or University postal
and email addresses.</span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm; margin-bottom:0cm; margin-left:39.0pt; margin-bottom:.0001pt">
<span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Symbol">·</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt"> </span><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Examples of previous award winners, links to multimedia ETDs and acceptance speech videos are available at </span><a href="http://www.ndltd.org/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"; color:purple">www.ndltd.org</span></a><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">.</span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm; margin-bottom:0cm; margin-left:39.0pt; margin-bottom:.0001pt">
<span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Symbol">·</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt"> </span><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Also see the news article "</span><a href="http://www.ndltd.org/ndltd-awards/innovative-etd-awards/awards/ndltdetdawardwinners2004-2009casestudiesinsuccess" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"; color:purple">NDLTD
ETD Award Winners 2004 - 2009: Case Studies in Success</span></a><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">" and </span><a href="http://www.ndltd.org/events/news/ndltdetdawards-2013winnersannounced" target="_blank" title="NDLTD ETD Awards 2012 Winners"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"; color:#283D88">ETD
2013 Award Winners</span></a><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">.</span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm; margin-bottom:12.0pt; margin-left:39.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Symbol">·</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt"> </span><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Nominations must be sent by email to
ETD Awards Committee Chair John Hagen at </span><a href="mailto:John.Hagen@renaissance-scholar.com" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"; color:#283D88">John.Hagen@renaissance-scholar.com</span></a></p>
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<b><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Deadline for Nominations: March 1, 2014</span></b></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom:0cm; margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Specific Awards Category Information and Requirements</span></b></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom:0cm; margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Innovative ETD Award</span></b></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm; margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""> </span></b></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm; margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">ETDs submitted for this award must represent student efforts to transform the genre of the print dissertation through the use of ETDs. This award recognizes
innovative use of software to create "cutting edge" ETDs. The application and integration of renderings, photos, data sets, software code and other multimedia objects that are included in the document will be considered as part of the innovation of the work.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Symbol">·</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt"> </span><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">An ETD may be nominated by a representative (e.g. administrator, faculty member or librarian) of an institution
that is a </span><a href="http://www.ndltd.org/about/membership" target="_blank" title="NDLTD Members"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"; color:#283D88">member</span></a><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""> of the NDLTD. </span></p>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Each NDLTD member may submit up to 2 nominees. In addition, a student from a member organisation may submit a self-nomination.</span></p>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">The nomination should include a link to the archived work, along with a brief statement about how the work uses technology to enhance the presentation of research.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Symbol">·</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt"> </span><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">ETD nominations may be in PDF and/or open (non-PDF) formats. Submissions of PDF formats should include hyper-linking
and/or the source URL to any included supplementary multimedia material.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Symbol">·</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt"> </span><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">The ETD must be distributed online as open access.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Symbol">·</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt"> </span><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">There may be up to three winners in this category.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Symbol">·</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt"> </span><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Each winner will receive $1,000 and will be eligible to receive an additional $500 in travel scholarship
funding to attend the ETD Symposium.*</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm; margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""> </span></b></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm; margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">ETD Leadership Award</span></b></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm; margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""> </span></b></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm; margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">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. Letters of nomination 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.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Symbol">·</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt"> </span><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Nominations should be submitted by the nominee's supervisor or related University administrator.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Symbol">·</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt"> </span><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">The nominee or nominee's institution must be affiliated as an </span><a href="http://www.ndltd.org/about/membership" target="_blank" title="NDLTD Members"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"; color:#283D88">NDLTD
member</span></a><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Symbol">·</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt"> </span><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">There may be up to two winners for this category.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Symbol">·</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt"> </span><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Each winner will receive international honorary recognition.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm; margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""> </span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm; margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">*I.R.S regulations require the NDLTD to report all award amounts distributed; citizens of the United States must provide a valid Social Security number to
receive award distributions. Winners must agree to the conditions set forth in the eligibility requirements listed here and NDLTD policy. Winners must also agree to make acceptance / acknowledgments materials available to the NDLTD for the purpose of international
promotions. </span></p>
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<a href="http://www2.le.ac.uk/library/etd2014/etd2014" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"; color:purple">ETD 2014 Symposium</span></b></a></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom:0cm; margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">For more information about the ETD Awards program contact </span><a href="mailto:John.Hagen@renaissance-scholar.com" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"; color:#283D88">John
Hagen</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">, ETD Awards Committee Chair.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm; margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">This awards announcement is also available online at <a href="http://www.ndltd.org/events/news/callfornominations%E2%80%932014etdinnovationleadershipawards" target="_blank">http://www.ndltd.org/events/news/callfornominations%E2%80%932014etdinnovationleadershipawards</a></span></p>
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