FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

                         RESEARCH AWARD
             LIBRARY ACQUISITIONS: PRACTICE & THEORY

     Library Acquisitions: Practice & Theory (LAPT) is pleased to
announce the recipients of the 1993 Research Award, Samuel Demas,
Anne S. Caputo, and William J. Kara.  Mr. Demas is Head, Collection
Development and Preservation at Cornell University's Albert R. Mann
Library in Ithaca, NY.  Ms. Caputo is Manager, Academic Programs at
Dialog Information Services.  Mr. Kara is Acquisitions Librarian at
Cornell's Albert R. Mann Library.

     Their proposal, "Viability of the Vendor Model of Information
Delivery Through a Library Gateway,"  has been funded as the 1993
Library Acquisitions: Practice & Theory Research Award.  The study
"aims to determine the viability of the 'vendor model' of
information delivery through a library gateway.  By offering a
campus community unrestricted access to an unprecedented scope of
electronic information, libraries and vendors will learn for the
first time: which files are used, how much they are used, by whom
they are used (e.g. faculty, staff, students), and at what times of
the day and night.  This data is essential for database vendors
trying to structure fixed fee pricing schedules, and for libraries
in selecting files, choosing access mechanisms, and planning
information delivery systems."

The Call for Proposals for the 1994 Research Award will be released
shortly.  Questions concerning this award should be addressed to:

Carol Pitts Hawks
Editor-in-Chief
Library Acquisitions: Practice & Theory
2129 Sandston Road
Columbus, OH 43220
(614) 292-6314
FAX: (614) 292-2015
Internet: hawks.1@osu.edu