Dissertation Award
The PR & Promotions Committee's annual Dissertation Award was established in 2009, and aims to recognise and encourage new entrants to the profession.
BIALL feel that it is important to ensure that those qualifying in any of the Library and Information Studies courses are aware of the many varying career opportunities to which their qualifications can lead. Legal Information professionals work in a number of fields, including academic roles, law firms and barristers chambers, with a variety of job roles. The PR and Promotion Committee have organised a successful series of talks to Library Schools since the Committee was established in 2007 and the Dissertation Award is a development of the links between BIALL and the Schools.
The award is open to all undergraduate and postgraduate library school students on a CILIP accredited course.
The 2010 award was given to Caroline Goulding, a student at Aberystwyth University. Her dissertation was entitled "A Comparison of The Role of the Information Professional in the Legal Environment in the Private and Public Sectors".
Award procedure:
Submissions are invited from the spring of the awarding year, with the award winner being announced in December. Submission is at the discretion of the university, not by individual students. Submitted dissertations will be considered by a panel which will include members of the PR and Promotions Committee.
The criteria for submission are:
- Open to all undergraduate and postgraduate library school students on a CILIP accredited course
- The topic must be of a corporate or legal matter
- The dissertation must be submitted electronically and include an executive summary
- It must be submitted (to vivian.grainge@freethcartwright.co.uk) by 1 Oct each year
- Only one dissertation from each course per library school may be submitted
- Submission at the discretion of the university not by individual students
Previous winners:
2010: Caroline Goulding, Aberystwyth University, for "A Comparison of The Role of the Information Professional in the Legal Environment in the Private and Public Sectors"
2009: Chris Cooper, University College, London, for "In the 2009 Recession the Value of Legal Information and Legal Information Professionals will Increase rather than Decrease"
