<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" id="gmail-m_-8730474108041124835gmail-m_-1613031889221992928gmail-m_6104604375017448336gmail-m_1027973677730961117gmail-m_1530020661632866278gmail-m_7609074904269400081gmail-m_7855651639347312223gmail-m_5675366599264836376gmail-m_2029147768714527376gmail-docs-internal-guid-27eff2de-c2e7-1082-5be9-f9cf93bfe6cf"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Lora;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">ALCTS Writing/Publishing Awards</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Lora;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Nominations and self-nominations being accepted until December 1, 2017</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><a href="http://www.ala.org/alcts/awards/printmedia/opub" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Lora;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline">ALCTS Outstanding Publication Award</span></a></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Lora;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">The
 ALCTS Outstanding Publication Award honors the author or authors of the
 year's outstanding monograph, article, or original paper in the field 
of technical services, including acquisitions, cataloging, collection 
management, preservation, continuing resources and related areas in the 
library field. Papers published in </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Lora;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Library Resources & Technical Services </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Lora;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">(</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Lora;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">LRTS</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Lora;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">)</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Lora;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">,</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Lora;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"> the ALCTS journal, are ineligible, as there is an award in place for best </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Lora;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">LRTS</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Lora;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"> publication (described below).</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Lora;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">For more information on the award criteria, nomination, selection and ceremony, go to </span><a href="http://www.ala.org/alcts/awards/printmedia/opub" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Lora;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline">http://www.ala.org/alcts/award<wbr>s/printmedia/opub</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Lora;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">. For further nomination information contact </span><a href="mailto:heath.martin@stonybrook.edu?subject=ALCTS+Outstanding+Publication+Award" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Lora;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline">Heath Martin</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Lora;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">, chair of the</span><a href="http://www.ala.org/alcts/mgrps/juries/ats-awblack" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Lora;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"> </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Lora;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline">ALCTS Outstanding Publication Award Jury</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Lora;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><a href="http://www.ala.org/alcts/awards/printmedia/bestoflrts" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Lora;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline">Edward Swanson Memorial Best of LRTS Award</span></a></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Lora;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">The Edward Swanson Memorial Best of </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Lora;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">LRTS</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Lora;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">
 Award is given to the author(s) of the best paper published each year 
in the official journal of the Association for Library Collections &
 Technical Services,</span><a href="http://www.ala.org/alcts/resources/lrts" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Lora;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"> </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Lora;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline">Library Resources & Technical Services (LRTS)</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Lora;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">.</span></p><br><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Lora;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">For more information on the award criteria, nomination, selection and ceremony, go to</span><a href="http://www.ala.org/alcts/awards/printmedia/bestoflrts" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Lora;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"> </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Lora;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline">http://www.ala.org/alcts/award<wbr>s/printmedia/bestoflrts</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Lora;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">. For further nomination information contact </span><a href="mailto:michele.seikel@okstate.edu?subject=Edward+Swanson+Memorial+Best+of+LRTS+Award" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Lora;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline">Michele Seikel</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Lora;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">, chair of the Best of</span><a href="http://www.ala.org/alcts/mgrps/juries/ats-awlrts" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Lora;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"> </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Lora;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline">LRTS</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Lora;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline"> Award Jury</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Lora;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">.</span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>