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        Chandra Prabha, Ph.D.
        Senior Research Scientist
        <P>My current research can broadly be characterized as collection and user studies. I am a co-investigator in the IMLS funded two-year research into the whys and hows of the information seeking process. Presently, I am engaged in describing the attributes of collections unique to individual OCLC member libraries.</P>
    <P>A recent collections project of mine examined the impact of the availability of electronic formats on cancellations of periodical subscriptions in research libraries. Another project characterized Web-based information sources in public libraries.</P>
    <P>I joined OCLC as postdoctoral fellow in 1985. My past research projects examined book use patterns and interlibrary loan use, including the availability of full-text as an alternative to ILL. I have also conducted systematic studies of workflow and throughput measures in cataloging and interlibrary loan operations in more than twenty libraries. This work included the study of the Cataloging-in-Publication operation at the Library of Congress in 1992.</P>
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    <LI><A href="prabha/cv-current.pdf" target=_blank>Curriculum vitae</A> <SPAN class=small>(PDF:109K/5pp.)</SPAN> </LI></UL>
        <P>"At risk materials—unidentified last copy monographs." 2006. With Lynn Silipigni Connaway and Edward T. O’Neill. <EM>College &amp; Research Libraries,</EM> 67,4 (July): 370-379. Pre-print available online at: <a href="../publications/archive/2006/connaway-crl07.pdf" target=_blank">http://www.oclc.org/research/publications/archive/2006/connaway-crl07.pdf</a> <span class="small">(PDF:151K/24pp.)</span>.</P>
    <P>"Characteristics, uniqueness, and overlap of information sources linked from North American public library Web sites." 2005. With Raymond D. Irwin. <EM>First Monday</EM>, 10,8 (1 August) <A href="http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue10_8/prabha/index.html">http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue10_8/prabha/index.html</A>.</P>
    <P>"Public libraries on the Web: an assessment of services." 2003. With Raymond D. Irwin. <EM>Public Libraries,</EM> 42,4, 255-260.</P>

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