<div dir="ltr"><div><span style="color:rgb(73,73,73);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:10.5pt">Nominations are now open for the 2019 ALCTS Outstanding Publication Award. The deadline for nominations is December 1st. </span><br></div><div><p style="margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(73,73,73)">The
 award honors an author or authors who have written 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. The award consists of a citation and $250 contributed by 
ALCTS.
 Works published in 2018 are eligible. Reprints of earlier publications 
will not be considered. The evaluation criteria include: intellectual 
content; practical value; theoretical value; scholarship; presentation; 
and style. Papers published in<span> </span></span><em style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:rgb(73,73,73);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">Library Resources & Technical Services</span></em><span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(73,73,73)"> </span></span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(73,73,73)">(</span><em style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:rgb(73,73,73);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">LRTS</span></em><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(73,73,73)">) are not eligible.<br style="box-sizing:border-box">    <br style="box-sizing:border-box">Send
 nominations, along with a statement giving the full bibliographic 
citation of the article, book or paper being nominated and reasons for 
the nomination to:<span> </span><a href="mailto:rene.erlandson@gmail.com?subject=ALCTS%20Outstanding%20Publication%20Award" title="mailto:rene.erlandson@gmail.com?subject=ALCTS%20Outstanding%20Publication%20Award" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(51,122,183);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">Rene Erlandson</span></a>, chair, Publication Jury. <br style="box-sizing:border-box">        <br style="box-sizing:border-box">Visit the<span> </span><a href="http://www.ala.org/alcts/awards/printmedia/opub" title="http://www.ala.org/alcts/awards/printmedia/opub" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(51,122,183);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">Outstanding Publication Award page</span></a><span> </span>for more information. </span></p><p style="margin:1rem 0rem;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing:border-box;font-stretch:inherit"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(73,73,73)">ALCTS
 is a division of the American Library Association. An international 
member-driven association, ALCTS engages the library community on issues
 and policies that affect the acquisition, management, discovery and 
preservation of library collections.  </span></p>

<br></div><div>------<br></div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div>Valerie D. Glenn<br></div>HathiTrust Federal Documents Analyst<br></div><a href="mailto:valglenn@hathitrust.org" target="_blank">valglenn@hathitrust.org</a><br><span><span><font color="#888888"><a href="http://www.hathitrust.org/usgovdocs_registry" target="_blank">https://www.hathitrust.org/usdocs_registry</a></font></span></span><br>ORCID ID: <span><span><font color="#888888"><span><span><font color="#888888"><a href="http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5173-6702" target="_blank">http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5173-6702</a></font></span></span></font></span></span><br></div></div></div></div>
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