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Date: Wed, 28 Dec 1994 11:26:36 -0500
From: Carol Hawks <chawks@BEAUTY.MAGNUS.ACS.OHIO-STATE.EDU>
Subject: LAPT Research Award Announcement

                       1995 RESEARCH AWARD
             LIBRARY ACQUISITIONS: PRACTICE & THEORY

     The Library Acquisitions: Practice & Theory (LAPT) Research
Award provides an annual prize of $1,000 for research in the broad
areas of acquisitions, serials, publishing, and collection
management.  The award will be given for one proposal and
administered in two parts: $500 when the proposal is selected to
fund the research effort and $500 when the completed manuscript is
submitted to Library Acquisitions: Practice & Theory.  The award
will be granted to the individual, not the institution, and may be
used to cover expenses incurred in conducting the research outlined
in the winning proposal, including travel, postage, staff support,
supplies, and other items.

     The winning proposal will identify a critical issue in
acquisitions, serials, publishing, or collection management and
outline a rigorous approach to testing or solving the issue raised.
Proposals will be judged on their significance, clarity and
originality.  The proposal should be a brief, concise description
of the project (no more than 500 words).  A budget proposal and a
one page vita of the author must be attached.  Awards will not be
limited to experienced researchers; however, researchers should
present their proposal clearly addressing the following issues:

     1.   What are the aims and objectives of the research
          proposal?
     2.   What methodology and data analysis procedures will be
          employed?
     3.   What related research has been undertaken and/or
          published?  Please include specific citations.
     4.   Is the research replication of a previous study?

     The deadline for submitting proposals is February 15, 1995.
Proposals will be reviewed by a panel consisting of the editor-in-
chief, the assistant editors, and three members of the editorial
board.  The winning proposal will be announced at the annual
American Library Association Conference in 1995 and in the fourth
issue of LAPT for the year.  Research for the winning proposal must
be completed within one year of the date when the award is
announced.  Library Acquisitions: Practice & Theory reserves the
right of first refusal of the completed manuscript.
     Information on past recipients and their research follows:

     1992 -- Anna H. Perrault -- "The Shrinking Collection: A Study
     of the Effects of the Diversion of Funds from Monographs to
     Serials on the Monograph Collections of Research Libraries"
          This study investigated the shrinking non-
          serial resources base for United States
          academic libraries, shifts in monographic
          collecting patterns and trends in the
          acquisition of foreign language imprints, and
          the decline in monograph acquisitions as
          distributed across subject disciplines or
          among language groups.
     Published in LAPT v. 18, no. 1, pp. 3-22.

     1993 -- Samuel Demas, Anne S. Caputo, and William J. Kara --
     "Viability of the Vendor Model of Information Delivery Through
     a Library Gateway"
          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.

     1994 -- Tina E. Chrzastowski and Karen A. Schmidt -- "The
     Serials Cancellation Crisis:  Determining Recent National
     Trends in Academic Library Serial Collections Through the Use
     of Commercial Vendor Subscription Records"
          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 year (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.

Proposals and questions concerning this year's 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