Edward Swanson Memorial Best of LRTS Award
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Frequency: Annual
$250 and a citation
Award Information
| Title | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Kelly J. Thompson
2017 - Winner(s) Kelly J. Thompson is Metadata Management and Cataloging Librarian in the Metadata and Cataloging Department at Iowa State University |
2017 - Winner(s) |
| Title | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| M. Pilar Alonso Lifante and Francisco Javier Molero Madrid
2016 - Winner(s) M. Pilar Alonso Lifante is a doctor of astronomical information retrieval and Francisco Javier Molero Madrid is a doctor of astrodynamics, Department of Applied Mathematics... |
2016 - Winner(s) |
| Title | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Christine N. Turner
2015 - Winner(s) Christine N. Turner is Electronic Resources Librarian, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, Massachusetts |
2015 - Winner(s) |
| Title | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Wen-Ying Lu and Mary Beth Chambers
2014 - Winner(s) Wen-ying Lu is Assistant Professor and Continuing Resources Catalog Librarian, University of Colorado Boulder
Mary Beth Chambers is Associate Professor and Catalog Metadata Librarian, University...
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2014 - Winner(s) |
| Title | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| The Academy Unbound: Linked Data as Revolution
2013 - Winner(s) Philip Evan Schreur is the head of the metadata department at Stanford University.
“As more and more aspects of personal and professional life... |
2013 - Winner(s) |
| Title | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Assessing the Cost and Value of Bibliographic Control
2012 - Winner(s) "Assessing the Cost and Value of Bibliographic Control" directly tackles the central question faced by technical services administrators and catalogers today—how can we measure the... |
2012 - Winner(s) |
| Title | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Identifying Standard Practices in Research Library Book Conservation
2011 - Recipient(s) |
2011 - Recipient(s) |
| Title | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Name Authority control in Local Digitization Projects and the Eastern North Carolina Postcard Collection
2010 - Winner(s) In her award winning article, Dragon addresses issues of interest to ALCTS in particular and discusses fundamental principles in a way that illuminates the issues... |
2010 - Winner(s) |
| Title | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Approaches to Selection, Access, and Collection Development in the Web World
2009 - Co-Winner(s) In their award winning article, Schmidt, Shelburne, and Vess present a case study on how collection development skills can be used to acquire, preserve, and... |
2009 - Co-Winner(s) |
| Title | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| A Regression-based Approach to Library Fund Allocation
2008 - Recipient(s) In his award winning article, William H. Walters presents a novel regression-based method of weighting and combining variables to develop a funding allocation formula. The... |
2008 - Recipient(s) |
| Title | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Perpetual Access to Electronic Journals: A Survey of One Academic Research Library's Licenses
2007 - Co-Winner(s) Jim Stemper and Susan Barribeau explore current license agreement practices and highlight procedural concerns that will be influencing budgets and collections in academic libraries for... |
2007 - Co-Winner(s) |
| Title | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| FRBR: Coming Soon to your Library
2006 - Recipient(s) Jennifer Bowen has made a timely and significant contribution to understanding the practical applications of the Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR ) in this... |
2006 - Recipient(s) |
| Title | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Identifying the Serial Work as a Bibliographic Entity
2005 - Recipient(s) Kristin Antelman has made an original, timely, and important contribution to the body of knowledge on bibliographic control and identification of serials. The article makes... |
2005 - Recipient(s) |
| Title | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Proliferating Guidelines: A History and Analysis of teh Cataloging of Electronic Resources
2004 - Recipient(s) In her article, Amy Weiss traces and evaluates the vigorous, on-going and occasionally frustrating efforts made by the library community over the past three decades... |
2004 - Recipient(s) |
| Title | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Technological Change and the Scholarly Communications Reform Movement
2003 - Recipient(s) Richard Fyffe has identified in this outstanding article key concepts that form the underlying basis for the current crisis in scholarly communications. He explains how... |
2003 - Recipient(s) |
| Title | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Book Vendor Records in the OCLC Database: Boon or Bane?
2002 - Co-Winner(s) The article is an interesting, practical and a logical presentation of an important issue and an outstanding contribution to the literature of technical services. The... |
2002 - Co-Winner(s) |
| Title | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Metadata and Authority Control
2001 - Recipient(s) Sherry Vellucci has done a masterful job presenting the different types of 'metadata' and explaining the raison d'etre behind them. She has forcefully articulated the... |
2001 - Recipient(s) |
| Title | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| An Analysis of Tables of Contents in Recent English Language Books
2000 - Recipient(s) In response to current trends in cataloging to pare down the amount of description in the catalog record, Winke investigated and convincingly demonstrated that tables... |
2000 - Recipient(s) |
| Title | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Toward a Computer-Generated Subject Validation File: Feasibility and Usefulness
1999 - Co-Winner(s) In response to the need for improved efficiency and reliability in subject authority control, Chan and Vizine-Goetz explored, and convincingly demonstrated, the feasibility of automatically... |
1999 - Co-Winner(s) |
| Title | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Determining Copyright Status for Preservation and Access: Defining Reasonable Effort
1998 - Co-Winner(s) Demas and Brogdon investigate the topic of how to determine copyright status for titles under consideration for preservation reformatting or for scanning for the digital... |
1998 - Co-Winner(s) |
| Title | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Technical Services Workstations: A Review of the State of teh Art
1997 - Recipient(s) Kaplan provides a definitive history of the progression of automation of cataloging processes, from the emergence of the MARC format and the bibliographic utilities to... |
1997 - Recipient(s) |
| Title | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| The Internet and Collection Development: Mainstreaming Selection of Internet Resources
1996 - Co-Winner(s) |
1996 - Co-Winner(s) |
| Title | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Manifestations in Near-Equivalence: Theory, with Special Attention to Moving-Image Materials
1995 - Recipient(s) |
1995 - Recipient(s) |
| Title | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Indexing Overlap and Consistency Between the Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals and the Architectural Periodicals Index
1994 - Co-Winner(s) |
1994 - Co-Winner(s) |
| Title | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Acquisitions Librarian as Change Agent in the Transition of the Electronic Library
1993 - Winner(s) |
1993 - Winner(s) |
| Title | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| The Education of the Acquisitions Librarian: A Survey of ARL Acquisitions Librarians
1992 - Winner(s) |
1992 - Winner(s) |
| Title | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| A Tool for Comparative Collection Analysis: Conducting a Shelflist Sample to Construct a Collection Profile
1991 - Co-Winner(s) |
1991 - Co-Winner(s) |
| Title | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| On the Nature of Acquisitions
1990 - Winner(s) |
1990 - Winner(s) |
| Title | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| The Teaching of Cataloging in U.S. Library Schools
1989 - Winner(s) |
1989 - Winner(s) |
| Title | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| No Award Presented
1988 - Winner(s) |
1988 - Winner(s) |
| Title | Year | |
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| Costs Associated with Preservation Microfilming: Results of teh Research Libraries Group Studies
1987 - Winner(s) |
1987 - Winner(s) |
Applications are not accepted for this award.
$250 and a citation
Recipient notified by jury chair just prior to the ALA Midwinter Meeting
