It’s simple to host your own Sparky Awards. Make the national contest your template all the fine print is done. Set a deadline that works for you, sometime in advance of the national deadline on December 6, 2009 name a panel of judges who will help attract attention on your campus and offer your own prizes— such as video cameras or iPods. More details on the contest, past winners, and how to syndicate are at http://www.sparkyawards.org/. Working with students, through the Sparky Awards, the SPARC “Right to Research” campaign, other forthcoming projects, and the SPARC summer intern program has brought welcome energy and fresh perspective on creating change in scholarly communication—at SPARC, but also on campuses. Adopting the 2009 Sparky Awards is but one more opportunity students have helped inspire to take the conversation ahead, and we look forward to learning where they will take us next. Anu Vedantham at University of Pennsylvania Libraries and Barbara DeFelice at Dartmouth College Library contributed to the text adapted here. To cite this article: Jennifer McLennan. “A Different Kind of Conversation: The Sparky Awards and Fresh Views on Change in Scholarly Communication.” Research Library Issues: A Bimonthly Report from ARL, CNI, and SPARC, no. 264 (June 2009): 19–21. http://www.arl.org/resources/pubs/rli/. RLI 264 21 A Different Kind of Conversation ( C O N T I N U E D ) JUNE 2009 RESEARCH LIBRARY ISSUES: A BIMONTHLY REPORT FROM ARL, CNI, AND SPARC
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