Blackwell’s Scholarship Award honors Schmidt, Shelburne and Vess
Contact: Charles Wilt
Executive Director, ALCTS
312-280-5030
NEWS
For Immediate Release
March 3, 2009
CHICAGO-The Association for Library Collections & Technical Services (ALCTS) is announcing that the Blackwell’s Scholarship Award for 2009 goes to Karen Schmidt, Wendy Allen Shelburne and David Steven Vess for their article entitled: "Approaches to Selection, Access, and Collection Development in the Web World : A Case Study with Fugitive Literature,” published in Library Resources & Technical Services, volume 52, issue 3, July 2008, pages 184-191.
The Blackwell’s Scholarship Award honors the author of the year’s outstanding monograph or article in the field of acquisitions, collection development and related areas of resources development in libraries. The award will be presented on Sunday, July 12, at the ALCTS Awards Ceremony during the 2009 American Library Association Annual Conference in Chicago.
The article explores the use of librarians’ existing collection development skills as applied to development and management of materials collected from the Internet. The authors concluded that many of the skills collection development librarians use for print can be transferred to the Internet. In light of the findings, libraries may need to rethink their collecting processes and make plans for the inclusion and preservation of Web-based materials in their collections.
Blackwell donates a $2,000 scholarship to the U.S. or Canadian library school of the winning author’s choice. The authors have designated that the scholarship be given to the University of Arizona School of Information Resources and Library Science (SIRLS). The authors selected Arizona because “the focus of our research - hate literature on the Web - underscores the importance of diversity in our profession, and SIRLS' mission actively embraces and promotes diversity in attracting students to its program, engaging them in the issues surrounding intellectual freedom and human understanding.”
Blackwell is an international business that supplies libraries with collection products and supporting services. The Association for Library Collections & Technical Services (ALCTS) is the national association for information providers who work in collections and technical services, such as acquisitions, cataloging, collection development, preservation and continuing resources in digital and print formats.
ALCTS is a division of the American Library Association.
