1996 LAPT RESEARCH AWARD
        TSCHERA HARKNESS CONNELL

        Library Acquisitions: Practice & Theory (LAPT) is pleased to
announce the recipient of the 1996 Research Award, Tschera Harkness
Connell. Dr. Connell is Assistant Professor at the Kent State University
School of Library and Information Science.

        Her proposal, "Effects of Series Authority Control for
Acquisitions," has been funded as the 1996 Library Acquisitions: Practice
& Theory Research Award.  The study "grew out of the 1993 proposal from
the Library of Congress to discontinue the series authority work. [A
subsequent decision was made in Fall 1994 that LC would continue to provide
added entries and series authorities.] This study will address such
questions as to what extent (if any) will eliminating series authority
control increase the potential for duplicates in the acquisition process?
Specifically, the issue will be examined in the context of approval plans.
Is it possible that the series control is monitored sufficiently by the
vendors for purposes of preventing unwanted duplicates?"

        To quote one of LAPT's reviewers, "this is an original area and
breaks new ground, looking at a valuable combination of variables in an
area of emerging importance."  Another reviewer indicates that "it
addresses an issue of importance to all libraries, and can provide data
that may influence LC policy/practice."

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Carol Pitts Diedrichs
Head, Acquisition Department
Editor, Library Acquisitions: Practice & Theory
The Ohio State University Libraries
1858 Neil Avenue Mall
Columbus, OH, 43210-1286
tel: 614-292-6314
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Internet: diedrichs.1@osu.edu