Editorial

Abstract

It is the time of year when the winners of the ALCTS annual awards are announced, and I am delighted to announce that the 2018 winners of the Edward Swanson Best of LRTS Award are Deborah M. Henry and Tina M. Neville for their paper, “Repositories at Master’s Institutions: A Census and Analysis” (LRTS volume 61, no. 3, July 2017). The authors studied a population of Carnegie-designated master’s institutions to quantify the existence of digital repositories at those institutions. They also conducted a content analysis of repositories containing some type of faculty content. The authors considered various ways that these collections might be discovered, including open web searching, inclusion in repository directories, and access through an institution’s website. The press release for this award notes “No other study has examined the IR’s of this group of academic institutions, nor so carefully analyzed their faculty, student, and other types of content while also gathering data on their platforms, or comparing discoverability using Google, OpenDOAR, ROAR and institutional websites.” I congratulate Tina and Deborah and am honored to be able to present the award at the 2018 ALA Annual Conference in New Orleans.