From the ARLIS website: The Distinguished Service Award honors an individual of any country whose exemplary service in art librarianship, visual resources curatorship, or a related field, has made an outstanding national or international contribution to art information and/or art librarianship. Nominations for the 2006 Distinguished Service Award are due January 8, 2007. Full details for submission are on the ARLIS website: http:// www.arlisna.org/about/awards/dsa/dsa_guidelines.html The Committee members this year are Jack Perry Brown, Andrew Gessner, Hinda Sklar, Susan Malkoff Moon, Linda McRae and Carol Terry, Chair. Past winners of the award are listed below: 2005, presented 2006: Sherman Clarke 2004, presented 2005: Nancy S. Schuller 2003, presented 2004: Angela Giral 2002, presented 2003: Nancy Allen 2001, presented 2002: Betty Jo Kish Irvine 2000: no award made 1999, presented 2000: Pamela J. Parry 1998, presented 1999: Toni Petersen 1997, presented 1998: William Dane 1996, presented 1997: Lois Swan Jones 1995: no award made 1994, presented 1995: Mary Williamson 1993: no award made 1992, presented 1993: Luraine Tansey 1991, presented 1992: William B. Walker 1990, presented 1991: Jacqueline Viaux 1989, presented 1990: Wolfgang M. Freitag 1988, presented 1989: Caroline Backlund 1987: Antje B. Lemke 1986: Bernard Karpel __________________________________________________________________ Mail submissions to [log in to unmask] For information about joining ARLIS/NA see: http://www.arlisna.org/join.html Send administrative matters (file requests, subscription requests, etc) to [log in to unmask] ARLIS-L Archives and subscription maintenance: http://lsv.uky.edu/archives/arlis-l.html Questions may be addressed to list owner (Judy Dyki) at: [log in to unmask]