CDL-Winners of Blackwell Scholarship Award

From: "Robert P. Holley" <aa3805_at_wayne.edu>

Since I asked for nominations on this discussion list, here is the
award announcement for the Blackwell Scholarship Award. The
Committee reviewed many excellent articles published over the last
two years. The two authors have picked the University of Illinois to
receive this scholarship for the quality of its courses in collection
development and acquisitions.

Bob Holley

Blackwell’s Scholarship
The Blackwell’s Scholarship Award for 2004 goes to Katherine
Treptow Farrell and Marc Truitt for their article, “The Case for
Acquisitions Standards in the Integrated Library System,”
published in Library Collections, Acquisitions & Technical
Services, 27 (2003) 483-492.  The Blackwell’s Scholarship
Award is awarded for the best publication of the year in
acquisitions, collection development and related areas of
resources development in libraries.

Farrell and Truitt have called attention to a long neglected area
for standard setting. After pointing out the pitfalls of current
proprietary systems, they clearly articulate the importance of
standards for the daily functioning of acquisitions, for system
migration, for fiscal comparisons, and for the collection of
bibliographic and management data. The implementation of
acquisitions standards would facilitate research and allow
accurate comparisons across systems.  To quote from the article,
“… for as long as there are no standards … Systems designers
working in the absence of standards will continue to hobble us
with minimally functional, proprietary acquisitions solutions that
reflect the view that ‘acquisitions is simply the library version of
an inventory control and invoice-processing system.’”

Katharine Treptow Farrell is currently Head, Order Division and
Assistant University Librarian for Technical Services at
Princeton University Library.  She is a recipient, with Marc
Truitt, of the 2003 ACRL Samuel Lazerow Fellowship to
continue research in the area of acquisitions standards. Ms.
Farrell holds a B.A. in literature from Ursinus College and an
MLIS from Rutgers University.

Marc D. Truitt is Assistant Dean for Systems, University of
Houston. He presented, with Katharine Farrell, on data models
for acquisitions standards at the 2003 Charleston Conference.
Mr. Truitt holds a B.A. in Russian and East European studies
from Yale University, an M.A. in history from Stanford
University, and an MS, Columbia University, 1991.
Blackwell's donates 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
acquisitions or collection development.