[sis-l] Perrault receives OCLC/ALISE Research Grant

[Gregory]

 Dr. Anna H. Perrault, associate professor in the School of Library and
Information Science at the University of South Florida, has received an
OCLC/ALISE Research grant for "Global Collective Resources: WorldCAT as the
Foundation for International Library Cooperation." The grant provides
support for a bibliometric content analysis to profile the monographic
records in OCLC WorldCAT according to subject, language, date of publication
and audience parameters. Dr. Perrault has been recognized as a leading
researcher in the field of academic library monograph collections.  Her
research has won numerous awards, most recently the 2000 ALCTS Blackwell's
Scholarship Award for research in collection development and acquisitions.
Dr. Perrault's research has impacted academic library collection management
on a state and national level. Her FSU dissertation and articles on the
decline in monograph acquisitions in ARL libraries in the late 1980s have
been widely cited.  From 1995-1999, she worked with the administration of
the Florida College Center for Library Automation to conduct an assessment
of the resources of all 28 community college learning resources centers in
Florida. The results of this research were used to provide the rationale for
a $2 million special appropriation obtained from the Florida legislature in
1999 to redress severe shortages in current materials for the community
colleges. An earlier collection analysis project on Louisiana academic
library collections conducted with Dr. Beth Paskoff of the LSU SLIS also
resulted in a similar special legislative appropriation for university
library collections.  The OCLC/ALISE grant research will profile the
universe of publication as reflected in WorldCAT.  The results of the
research will contribute to a greater appreciation and understanding of
WorldCAT as an international resource. A better understanding of the
composition of the resources under bibliographic control via WorldCAT can
further international cooperation in resource sharing and coordinated
cooperative collection development. The findings can be utilized in further
research on the changing nature of the universe of publication as electronic
publications become a larger proportion of the universe.

Vicki L. Gregory
Professor and Director
School of Library and Information Science
University of South Florida
gregory@luna.cas.usf.edu
(813) 974-3520  voice
(813) 974-6840  fax