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The 2006 recipient of the Award is Julie A. Linden, Government Information Librarian, Yale University. Julie is interested in developing a broad and deep understanding of the content domain of U.S. federal documents and of the management of tangible legacy collections and digital collections.

With the grant funding Julie plans to analyze and document options for long-term preservation and usability of the online-only Foreign Relations of the United States series. She will compare the costs of long-term preservation options including manual or automated harvesting of the digital files and printing and binding files into paper volumes. Her comparison will encompass both materials and staff costs. She also plans to examine the online series from a usability perspective to consider whether online or print format is more usable for certain purposes and whether the online format could be made more useful.

Receipt of this $2000 grant will help Julie develop a thorough understanding of the options for the preservation of online titles including cost and usability issues. Heavy use of Foreign Relations of the United States at her university prompted her to select it for this grant.

Julie expects the funding to be useful in analyzing local preservation options for other online-only titles. She plans to submit an article reporting the results of her research to DttP : Documents to the People.