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It is my pleasure to announce the winners of ALA’s Library Research Round Table’s (LRRT) 2010 Jesse H. Shera Awards. Each year, LRRT judges submissions in two categories: dissertation research and published research. This year’s winner of the Jesse H. Shera Award for Support of Dissertation Research is Hea Lim Ree of the University of Pittsburgh. Her advisor is Dr. Richard Cox, and her work is entitled: "The Relationship between Archival Appraisal Practice and the User Study in U.S. State Archives and Records Management Programs: An Exploratory Study." This year’s winner of the Jesse H. Shera Award for Excellence in Published Research is Dr. Jane Greenberg, of the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, for her paper entitled, "Theoretical Considerations of Lifecycle Modeling: An Analysis of the Dryad Repository Demonstrating Automatic Metadata Propagation, Inheritance, and Value System Adoption," published in Cataloging & Classification Quarterly, Volume 47, Issue 3 & 4, April 2009, pages 380 - 402. For more details about the awards, and for a list of previous winners, see: http://www.ala.org/ala/aboutala/offices/ors/orsawards/sherawinners.cfm. Denise E. Agosto, Ph.D. 2010 LRRT Shera Awards Chair --------------------------- Denise E. Agosto, Ph.D. Associate Professor College of Information Science & Technology Drexel University 3141 Chestnut St. Philadelphia, PA 19104