Best of LRTS

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Date:  Mon, 03 Mar 2008 18:24:10 -0500
From:  Charles Wilt (ALCTS) <cwilt_at_ala.org>
Subject:  Best of LRTS

For Immediate Release Contact: Charles Wilt
February 19, 2008 Executive Director, ALCTS
312-280-5030
cwilt_at_ala.org <mailto:cwilt_at_ala.org>

Walters’ article wins Best of LRTS Award

William H. Walters, dean of library services and professor of social
sciences at Menlo College, Atherton, Calif. has won the 2008 Best of
/LRTS /Award for his article, "A Regression-based Approach to Library
Fund Allocation," published in /Library Resources & Technical Services/
(LRTS), volume 51, number 4, October 2007, pages 263-278.

The Best of /LRTS/ Award is given to the author of the best paper
published each year in /LRTS/, the official journal of the Association
for Library Collections & Technical Services. The author receives $250
and a citation in recognition of his or her work.

After a survey and critique of the literature on library fund
allocation, Walters presents a novel regression-based method of
weighting and combining variables to develop a funding allocation
formula. The resulting allocations are equity-based, assuring that
departments that are similar in nature receive similar support. Walters
presents a valuable step-by-step guide to selecting appropriate
variables, performing the regression analysis and interpreting results.
He offers two interesting strategies that could be used to encourage the
acceptance of regression-based allocations at the local level. The jury
commends the author for a significant contribution to a topic with a
long history of discussion in the professional literature and for
explaining the particulars of the statistics involved in a clear,
understandable and logical fashion.

The award will be presented on Sunday, June 29, at the ALCTS Awards
Ceremony during the 2008 American Library Association (ALA) meeting in
Anaheim, Calif.

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.

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