LRRT announces winner of 2007 Ingenta Research Award

CHICAGO, IL and OXFORD, UK ― The Library Research Round Table (LRRT) of the American Library Association (ALA) announced today that the team of Aaron Shrimplin, John Fink, Susan Hurst, and Kevin Messner is the winner of the 2007 Ingenta Research Award.

Sponsored by Ingenta, the leading provider of technology and services connecting the publishing and information industries, the award is granted annually by LRRT to support research projects in the fields of acquisition, use and preservation of digital content. This year's award will support the group's study, User Attitudes Toward E-books: A Q Methodology Study.

Joan Stein, 2006/2007 Chair, LRRT Steering Committee, comments, "We are proud to have this affiliation with Ingenta and deeply appreciate their generosity and their commitment to furthering research in our field. This year's Ingenta Award winners now have the funding to fully explore their study of user attitudes toward e-books, which should benefit libraries of all types."

"Ingenta is pleased to support such a timely research paper," adds Douglas Wright, Vice President of Ingenta. "With electronic book content growing exponentially, we recognize the importance of thoroughly understanding user behavior. This tightly-focused study will be a valuable resource to many in our industry and we are pleased to be supporting this critical research."

The Library Research Round Table (LRRT) was founded in 1968 to contribute toward the extension and improvement of library research. LRRT organizes activities that support and recognize research and it provides public programs that inform and educate ALA members about the theoretical base of the field and about research methods and findings that improve library services and administration.

Ingenta's flagship web service, IngentaConnect, provides over 20,000 libraries with subscription or document delivery access to over 30,000 electronic publications. Tools and services for librarians and their patrons include current awareness alerting, comprehensive access & entitlement options, integration with industry standards and a sophisticated, intuitive end-user interface.

Please visit the Ingenta booth 2011 at ALA Annual, DC for more information.

ENDS

For more information, please contact:
Denise M. Davis
Director, Office for Research & Statistics
American Library Association
Email: dmdavis@ala.org

Charlie Rapple
Group Marketing Manager
Ingenta, a Publishing Technology company
Tel: +44 1865 397860
Email: charlie.rapple@ingenta.com

About LRRT
http://www.ala.org/ala/lrrt/
The Library Research Round Table (LRRT) was founded in 1968 to contribute toward the extension and improvement of library research. LRRT organizes activities that support and recognize research and it provides public programs that inform and educate ALA members about the theoretical base of the field and about research methods and findings that improve library services and administration.

About Ingenta
www.ingenta.com
Ingenta is the global market leader in online management and distribution of publications, allowing publishers to focus on their core business by outsourcing their online publishing requirements. Ingenta's key competences include website design and development, data conversion and enhancement, secure online hosting, access & authentication and content discoverability management. Flagship web platform IngentaConnect provides 250 research publishers and societies with a ready-made audience (of over 20,000 libraries) for their publications. For libraries and information professionals, the site offers comprehensive collection management and document delivery options for over 30,000 publications. Ingenta also develops and maintains discrete publication websites, and delivers a range of complementary technology services including Information Commerce Software, which provides flexible infrastructure and tools to enable publishers to repackage, bundle or price content online at the click of a button.

In 2007, Ingenta merged with VISTA International to form Publishing Technology plc, the largest provider of publishing software solutions. The company is listed on the AIM market of the London Stock Exchange and has offices in Europe and North America.