Our friend and colleague, Blake Carver, who is also the founder and proprietor of LISNews has announced that the site is sponsoring an essay for librarians.
The first ever LISNews Librarian Essay Contest invites librarians to write an original essay about issues that impact librarianship. The contest will run for the entire month of February, 2010, with the fabulous prizes awarded sometime in March. Winning essayists will receive one of several prizes including Amazon or Borders gift cards, and a year of hosting from LISHost.org.
All essays must be submitted here.
How will judging be done? Well, judging writing isn't exactly easy is it? It's very subjective, that's why there will be somewhere between 5 and 10 judges. We'll all pick our favorites and base the winners on that.
What are the prizes? $25 from Amazon, $50 from Borders, and a year of hosting from LISHost.
What about deadlines? Anything entered in the month of February. You'll need to put it in the submissions queue and tag it with "essay". Don't email anything to me, use the queue.
No, you don't need to be a librarian.
Yes, you can co-author an article.
Yes, this essay should not be available elsewhere.
No, if you're a judge you're not eligible to win.
Yes, if you've written for LISNews before you can still win, you just can't be a judge.
How many essays do you expect to receive? Not many.
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