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OCLC awards three research grants

DUBLIN, Ohio, Oct. 14, 1994--The OCLC office of research has awarded three Library and Information Science Research Grants (LISRG) to university researchers for 1994.

"We are pleased to be able to support these projects," said Terry Noreault, director, 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:

Control mechanisms for intellectual access in a virtual library environment are very important factors. This study proposes to identify basic and important considerations as part of the process of developing such control mechanisms; to explore new approaches in knowledge organization; and to present a model which demonstrates one of the approaches for developing such mechanisms. The research will focus on an examination of the mechanisms to access information sources in the client services area in a prototype Environmental Sciences Virtual Library. It will investigate approaches used by various sources, examine semantically cohesive categories in environmental sciences and related fields, and develop a broad scheme of concept categories. A draft model designed for virtual libraries will be revised and tested through an examination of the collected data. An access control mechanism for the library will be designed and initial work plan proposed.

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 OCLC Research Report series and in the public domain. Application materials for 1995 will be available this November. For more information, contact the Office of Research.