Blackwell Scholarship nominations Edward A. Warro 13 Nov 1992 02:06 UTC
Please pardon cross-postings. This is being posted to four lists. BLACKWELL NORTH AMERICA SCHOLARSHIP AWARD Presented by the Association for Library Collections & Technical Services The Blackwell North America Scholarship Award Committee is soliciting nominations for the 1993 Blackwell North America which will be presented by the Association for Library Collections and Technical Services at the ALA Annual Conference in New Orleans. Purpose: To honor the author or authors of the outstanding 1992 monograph, article or original paper in the field of acquisitions, collection development, and related areas of resources development in libraries. Scholarship: Blackwell North America will donate a $2,000 scholarship to the U.S. or Canadian library school of the winning author's choice. The Scholarship will be given to a student concentrating in the acquisitions of collection development areas. Criteria: Publications from both 1991 and 1992 are eligible. No reprints of earlier publications are accepted. Evaluation criteria include: intellectual content (original, thought provoking), practical value, theoretical value, scholarship, presentation and style. Procedure: Please send nomination form below AND A COPY OF THE ARTICLE OR CHAPTER to: Edward A. Warro Loyola University of Chicago Cudahy Library 6525 N. Sheridan Road Chicago, IL 60626 (312) 508-2641 ZEWARRO@luccpua.it.luc.edu BY DECEMBER 1, 1992. Please include a statement giving the full bibliographic citation of the article, book, or paper you are nominating, plus your reasons for the nomination. If possible, a copy of the article, chapter, etc. should be included. The last five years' recipients are: 1988 - Joe A. Hewitt and John S. Shipman for "Cooperative Collection Development Among Research Libraries in the Age of Networking" (Advances in Library Automation and Networking, v.1, 1987). 1989 - Frederick C. Linden for "Prices of Foreign Library Materials: A Report" (College & Research Libraries 49:217-31, May 1988). 1990 - Joe A. Hewitt for "On the Nature of Acquisitions" (Library Resources & Technical Services, 33:105-22, April 1989). 1991 - Gary D. Bird for "An Economic 'Commons' Tragedy for Research Libraries: Scholarly Journal Publishing and Pricing Trends" (College & Research Libraries, 51;184-95, May 1990). 1992 - Richard M. Dougherty and Carol Hughes for their article "Library Cooperation: A Historical Perspective and a Vision for the Future." in Advances in Library Resource Sharing, v.1, edited by Jennifer Cargill and Diane J. Graves, p.1 1-21. Meckler, 1990. and Cal Gough for "Key Issues in the Collecting of Gay/Lesbian Library Materials." in Gay and Lesbian Library Service, edited by Gough, Cal and Ellen Greenblatt, p.3-10. McFarland, 1990. ------------------------------------------------------------------ ALCTS AWARD NOMINATION FORM I NOMINATE ________________________________________________________ for the 1993 Blackwell North America Scholarship Award Name ______________________________________________________________ Library ___________________________________________________________ Address ___________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________ Reason ____________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________ INCLUDE A COPY OF THE ARTICLE OR CHAPTER IF POSSIBLE. Deadline for all award nominations is DECEMBER 1, 1992.