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Best of LRTS Award

Deadline for nominations is December 1.

Purpose

The Best of LRTS Award is given to the author(s) of the best paper published each year in the official journal of the Association for Library Collections & Technical Services,Library Resources & Technical Services.

Criteria

Each of the papers published in the volume year is eligible for consideration with the exception of official reports and documents, obituaries, letters to the editor, and biographies of award winners.

Each paper shall be judged on the following points:

  • Content with a significant contribution about one or more issues addressed by ALCTS and its sections.
  • Statements in the paper are adequately supported by accurate data and/or documentation.
  • Clear and readable writing style.


For nomination information contactthe Chair of theBest of LRTS Award Jury.

Best of LRTS Award Recipients

2007 Jim Stemper and Susan Barribeau for "Perpetual Access to Electronic Journals: A Survey of One Academic Research Library’s Licenses," (vol. 50, no 2, April 2006, pp.91-109).
2006 Jennifer Bowen for "FRBR: Coming Soon to Your Library," (vol. 49, no. 3, July 2005, pp.175-188).
2005

Kristin Antelman for “Identifying the Serial Work as a Bibliographic Entity,” (vol. 48, no. 4, October 2004, pp. 238–55).

2004

Amy Weiss for "Proliferating Guidelines: A History and Analysis of the Cataloging of Electronic Resources," (vol. 47, no. 4 October 2003, pp. 171-187).

2003 Richard Fyffe for "Technological Change and the Scholarly Communications Reform Movement: Reflections on Castells and Giddens," (vol. 46, no. 2 April 2002, pp. 50-61).
2002
Bartley A. Burk and Laura D. Shedenhelm for "Book Vendor Records in the OCLC Database: Boon or Bane?," 45(1): 10-19.
2001
Sherry L. Vellucci for "Metadata and Authority Control," 44(1): 33-43.
2000
Robert Conrad Winke for "An analysis of Tables of Contents in Recent English-Language Books," 43(1): 14-27.
1999
Lois Mai Chan and Diane Vizine-Goetz for "Toward a Computer-Generated Subject Validation File: Feasibility and Usefulness," 42(1): 45-60.
1998
Samuel G. Demas and Jennie L. Brogdon for "Determining Copyright Status for Preservation and Access: Defining Reasonable Effort," 41(4): 323-334.
1997
Michael Kaplan for his article "Technical Services Workstations: A Review of the State of the Art," 40(2): 171-183.
1996
Samuel G. Demas, Peter McDonald, and Gregory Lawrence for "The Internet and Collection Development: Mainstreaming Selection of Internet Resources" 39 (July 1995), 275-90.
1995
Martha M. Yee for "Manifestations in Near-Equivalence: Theory, with special attention to moving-image materials" (vol. 38, no. 3, July 1994, pp. 227-255).
1994
Angela Giral and Arlene G. Taylor for "Indexing Overlap and Consistency Between the Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals and the Architectural Periodicals Index" (vol. 37, no. 1, January 1993, pp. 19-44).
1993
Ross Atkinson for "The Acquisitions Librarian as Change Agent in the Transition of the Electronic Library" (vol. 36, no. 1, January 1992, pp. 7-22).
1992
Karen A. Schmidt for "The Education of the Acquisitions Librarian: A Survey of ARL Acquisitions Librarians" (vol. 35, no. 1, January 1991, pp. 7-22).
1991
Beth M. Paskoff and Anna H. Perrault for "A Tool for Comparative Collection Analysis: Conducting a Shelflist Sample to Construct a Collection Profile" (vol. 34, no. 2, April 1990, pp. 199-215).
1990
Joe A. Hewitt for "On the Nature of Acquisitions" (vol. 33, no. 2, April, 1989, pp. 105-22).
1989
Roxanne Sellberg for "The Teaching of Cataloging in U.S. Library Schools" (vol. 32, no. 1, January, 1988, pp. 30-43).
1988
No award presented
1987
Patricia A. McClung for "Costs Associated with Preservation Microfilming: Results of the Research Libraries Group Studies" (vol. 30, no. 4, October/December, 1986, pp. 363-76).

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