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ALCTS offers five exciting Preconferences at Annual in San Francisco
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CHICAGO — Five exciting preconferences are coming your way during this year's 91´«Ã½ (91´«Ã½) Annual Conference from the Association for Library Collections and Technical Services (ALCTS). From Real World Linked Data to Cataloging for...
ALCTS virtual preconference coming in June
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CHICAGO — A virtual preconference coming in June will bring the conference experience to you. The Association for Library Collections and Technical Services (ALCTS) virtual preconference is sure to guarantee a great experience. Registration is open, so...
David Walker receives 2015 LITA/Library Hi Tech Award
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CHICAGO — David Walker has been named the winner of the 2015 LITA/Library Hi Tech Award for Outstanding Communication in Library and Information Technology. Emerald Group Publishing and the Library and Information Technology Association (LITA) sponsor the...
91´«Ã½ urges library directors to support trustee membership to United for Libraries
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PHILADELPHIA — At the 91´«Ã½ Midwinter Meeting, the 91´«Ã½ Council passed a resolution urging all library directors to encourage and support United for Libraries memberships for each of their trustees. The resolution was supported by the Public Library...
Jeanne Drewes receives Banks-Harris Preservation Award
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CHICAGO — Jeanne Drewes, chief of the Binding and Collections Care Division of the Library of Congress, is the recipient of the 2015 Paul Banks and Carolyn Harris Preservation Award, given annually by the Association for Library Collections & Technical...
Swanson Best of LRTS Award to Christine Turner
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CHICAGO—Christine N. Turner, electronic resources librarian at University of Massachusetts Amherst, has been awarded the 2015 Edward Swanson Memorial Best of LRTS Award for the article, "E-Resource Acquisitions in Academic Library Consortia," published in...
Magda El-Sherbini selected for Margaret Mann Citation
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CHICAGO—The Association for Library Collections & Technical Services (ALCTS) announces that Magda El-Sherbini is the recipient of the 2015 Margaret Mann Citation presented by its Cataloging and Metadata Management Section (CaMMS). The Mann Citation will...
Ed Summers recipient of 2015 Kilgour Award
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CHICAGO — The Library & Information Technology Association (LITA), a division of the 91´«Ã½ (91´«Ã½), has announced Ed Summers as the 2015 winner of the Frederick G. Kilgour Award for Research in Library and Information Technology. The...
2015 Cunha-Swartzburg Award to Laura Word
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CHICAGO — The Association for Library Collections & Technical Services’ (ALCTS) Preservation and Reformatting Section (PARS) Jury for the George Cunha and Susan Swartzburg Preservation Award has selected Laura Word as the 2015 recipient. The award...
Maxwell's 'Handbook' wins ALCTS Outstanding Publication Award
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CHICAGO — The recipient of the 2015 Association for Library Collections & Technical Services (ALCTS) Outstanding Publication Award is Robert L. Maxwell for his book Maxwell’s Handbook for RDA: Explaining and Illustrating RDA: Resource Description and...
Ross Atkinson award given to Carlen Ruschoff
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CHICAGO — The Association for Library Collections & Technical Services (ALCTS) names Carlen Ruschoff, director of technical services and strategic initiatives at the University of Maryland as the 2015 recipient of its Ross Atkinson Lifetime Achievement...
Culbertson and Collins recipients of Ulrich’s Serials Librarianship Award
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CHICAGO — The Association for Library Collections & Technical Services (ALCTS) congratulates the recipients of the 2015 Ulrich’s Serials Librarianship Award, Rebecca Culbertson and Maria Collins. Presented by the Continuing Resources Section (CRS) of...
LITA guide shows how to get started with demand-driven acquisitions for e-books
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CHICAGO— Thousands of e-books are published each year; and rather than holding steady, e-book prices are rising—some 3.5 percent this year alone. With so many titles out there, how do you know which ones will actually circulate? Demand-driven acquisition...
HARRASSOWITZ Award to Michael Levine-Clark
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CHICAGO — The Acquisitions Section of the Association for Library Collections & Technical Services (ALCTS) has selected Michael Levine-Clark, associate dean for scholarly communication and collections services and professor at the University of Denver, to...
First Step Award to Emily Cable
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CHICAGO — The Association for Library Collections & Technical Services (ALCTS) congratulates Emily Cable, serials and e-resource librarian at the Salem Public Library in Salem, Oregon, as the recipient of the 2015 First Step Award—A Wiley Professional...
Abigail Flanigan awarded Jan Merrill-Oldham Professional Development Grant
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CHICAGO – Abigail Flanigan, a student in the Masters of Library Science Program at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, has been awarded the 2015 Jan Merrill-Oldham Professional Development Grant. The Jan Merrill-Oldham Professional Development...
Emery and Stone receive Ingram Coutts Innovation Award
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CHICAGO —The Association of Library Collections & Technical Services ( ALCTS) Collection Management Section ( CMS) is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2015 Ingram Coutts Award for Innovation in Electronic Resources Management. Jill Emery...
Piercy Award to Myung-Ja Han
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CHICAGO — The Association for Library Collections & Technical Services (ALCTS) has named Myung-Ja (MJ) Han, metadata librarian and associate professor of library administration at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), as the recipient of the...
Brian Schottlaender wins 2015 Hugh C. Atkinson Memorial Award
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CHICAGO — Brian Schottlaender, Audrey Geisel university librarian at the University of California-San Diego, has been named the 2015 winner of the Hugh C. Atkinson Memorial Award. Schottalender will receive a cash award and citation during the 2015 91´«Ã½...
Author Brad Meltzer to serve as 2015 Preservation Week Honorary Chair
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CHICAGO – Our nation’s history is at risk, as more than 1.3 billion priceless treasures held by public institutions are endangered due to ignorance about preservation. Individuals also are not aware of the valuable role they play in preserving history...