1994 LAPT RESEARCH AWARD
            TINA E. CHRZASTOWSKI AND KAREN A. SCHMIDT

     Library Acquisitions: Practice & Theory (LAPT) is pleased to
announce the recipients of the 1994 Research Award, Tina E.
Chrzastowski and Karen A. Schmidt.  Ms. Chrzastowski is Chemistry
Librarian at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.  Ms.
Schmidt is Acquisitions Librarian at the same institution.

     Their proposal, "The Serials Cancellation Crisis:  Determining
Recent National Trends in Academic Library Serial Collections
Through the Use of Commercial Vendor Subscription Records," has
been funded as the 1994 Library Acquisitions: Practice & Theory
Research Award.  The study "will determine how recent rounds of
serial cancellations have affected academic research collections
nationwide.  It will identify national trends in serials
collections by analyzing serial cancellations and serial orders
over three years (1991-1993) from ten academic research libraries
located throughout the United States."   This study builds on the
earlier work of the researchers, "Surveying the Damage: Academic
Library Serial Cancellations 1987-88 through 1989-90," which
appeared in College and Research Libraries, volume 54, no. 2 (March
1993, pp. 93-102.

     To quote one of LAPT's reviewers, "the proposal has great
promise for giving us insight into the actual behavior and trends
in the ongoing serials cancellation crisis."

     The citation and cash award will be presented to Chrzastowski
and Schmidt at the Editorial Board's Meeting at the American
Library Association Annual Conference in Miami on June 25, 1994.