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OCLC awards 1996 research grants

DUBLIN, Ohio, July 19, 1996--The OCLC Office of Research has awarded three Library and Information Science Research Grants to university researchers for 1996.

"We are pleased to be able to support these projects," said Terry Noreault, director, OCLC Research and Special Projects. "University-based research adds an important dimension to our research agenda, and these projects promise findings that should be of broad interest to the library and information science community."

The grant recipients and their projects are:

The OCLC Library and Information Science Research Grant program awards grants of up to $10,000 to help foster quality research by faculty in schools of library and information science. Projects are generally completed within one year, and findings are published in the Annual Review of OCLC Research and in the public domain. Application materials for 1997 will be available this November. For more information, contact the Office of Research by phone at +1-614-764-6448 or by e-mail at suzanne_lauer@oclc.org.

OCLC Online Computer Library Center is a nonprofit computer library service and research organization whose computer network and services link more than 22,000 libraries in 63 countries and territories. More information is available at the OCLC Web site [http://www.oclc.org].