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Lois Swan Jones Award

October 24, 2011 — duncan_s

2012 Award

The Texas-Mexico chapter announces the 2012 Lois Swan Jones Professional Development Award providing $500 to a Texas-Mexico chapter member to support attending the 40th ARLIS/NA annual conference in Toronto, March 29-April 2, 2012.

The LSJ award honors Professor Jones, Emerita at the University of North Texas, by underwriting participation of Texas-Mexico chapter members at the ARLIS/NA annual meeting. While first-time conference attendees are especially encouraged, the award committee urges everyone with interest and need to apply. The primary requirement is that applicants not have full institutional funding. Previous winners are eligible. Eligibility and application procedure are listed below.

The deadline for receipt of applications is Friday, February 17, 2012. The award winner will be announced on Wednesday, February 22, 2012. Questions or concerns should be directed to the 2012 award committee chair, Samuel Duncan (Amon Carter Museum of American Art, samuel.duncan@cartermuseum.org). Other members of the 2012 committee are Rebecca Barham (University of North Texas) and Edward Lukasek (Museum of Fine Arts, Houston).

Submitted by Samuel Duncan, Chair, Lois Swan Jones Award Committee, 2012-01-24


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Award Guidelines

This award has been named in honor and memory of Lois Swan Jones, Professor Emerita of art history at the University of North Texas and charter member of the ARLIS/Texas-Mexico Chapter. Professor Jones was the author of several standard works on art information research methods and a recipient of the ARLIS/NA Distinguished Service Award. The combination of her enthusiasm, commitment to education, and love for art history serves as a model for art information professionals. See also: Remembering Lois Swan Jones.

Purpose: To support and encourage the participation of an ARLIS/Texas-Mexico Chapter member in the ARLIS/NA annual conference, by helping to defray conference expenses.

Eligibility

  • Applicants must be members in good standing of both ARLIS/NA and ARLIS/Texas-Mexico. Please note that membership in ARLIS/NA does not automatically include membership in ARLIS/Texas-Mexico. They are separate memberships.
  • Only those applicants who receive partial or no institutional funding toward the ARLIS/NA annual conference are eligible.

Application Procedure

  • Applicants must submit a letter of application and curriculum vitae to the award committee chair via email (Samuel Duncan at samuel.duncan@cartermuseum.org). The letter should include a statement of qualifications, the amount of expected institutional funding for conference attendance, and proposed conference program involvement.
  • A member may apply even if the member has previously received the award. The committee shall consider the merits of the individual application independent of past decisions.

Selection Factors

Preference will be given to:

  • First-time ARLIS/NA annual conference attendees
  • Applicants actively participating in the conference, such as a speaker, moderator, recorder, or committee member

Conditions of the Award

Award winners must commit to some level of conference involvement, which could include, but is not limited to, participation as a speaker, moderator, committee member, recorder, or volunteer with the local arrangements committee.

Award winners must write a report of conference activities and experiences for the chapter newsletter, The Medium. The report should include an account of how the award helped the recipient's professional development.

The number of award winners, the amount of the awards, and the deadline for applications will be determined each year by the voting membership at the annual chapter business meeting.

Contributions

The Lois Swan Jones Award is made possible through monetary contributions from chapter members and other supporters. Contributions in the form of checks made payable to the "ARLIS/TXMX LSJ Award" may be sent to the current treasurer listed on the officers page.

Contact Information

Questions about the award may be submitted to Samuel Duncan, Chair, Lois Swan Jones Award Committee: samuel.duncan@cartermuseum.org.

Past Winners