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        OCLC and ALISE Award 2009 Library and Information Science Grants
        OCLC Research and the Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE) have awarded research grants to Kathryn La Barre and Carol Tilley (University of&nbsp;Illinois), Michael Khoo (Drexel), and Bill Kules (Catholic University of America).
        lynn_connaway@oclc.org

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        24 February 2009
        The awards were presented in January at the ALISE 2009 Annual Conference Awards Reception in Denver, Colorado.
        <P>Project titles:</P>
    <UL>
    <LI>La Barre and Tilley: "Folktales and Facets" </LI>
    <LI>Khoo: "Addressing the Metadata Bottleneck by Developing and Evaluating an Online Tool to Support Non-specialists to Evaluate Dublin Core Metadata Records"</LI>
    <LI>Kules: "Investigating Gaze Behavior in Faceted Search Interfaces for Library Catalogs"</LI></UL>
        <P>OCLC News release (includes project abstracts)<BR><A href="../../worldwide/news/releases/200914.xml">www.oclc.org/news/releases/200914.htm</A></P>
    <P>2010 Call for Proposals<BR><A href="../../programsandresearch/grants/">www.oclc.org/programsandresearch/grants/</A></P>
    <P>List of past grant recipients<BR><A href="../../programsandresearch/grants/awarded.htm">www.oclc.org/programsandresearch/grants/awards.htm</A></P>
    <P>Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE)<BR><A href="http://www.alise.org">www.alise.org</A></P>

        Lynn Silipigni Connaway
        +1-303-246-3623

        Robert Bolander
        bolander@oclc.org
        +1-614-761-5207

        Senior Research Scientist
        OCLC Research
        Senior Communications Officer
        OCLC Research