Hello ARLIS-L:
The Research Awards Committee invites applications for the
Worldwide Books Publication
Award. The deadline for applications is January
15, 2008. To apply, please contact Hannah Bennett for an
application. The application will soon be posted to the ARLIS/NA
web site and an announcement will be made then. Last year's winner was
Martin Aurand, Architecture Librarian and Archivist, University
Libraries, Carnegie Mellon University, for his book, The Spectator and
the Topographical City, (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press,
2006).
Please pass along to anyone who may be interested.
Cordially,
Hannah Bennett
Interim Assistant Director
Arts Library, Yale University
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Award Purpose
The purpose of the Award for Publications is to recognize
outstanding publications by ARLIS/NA Individual members in librarianship
or visual resources curatorship, and the arts. By recognizing special
achievement in these areas this Award acknowledges and encourages
scholarly publication by the ARLIS/NA membership.
Projects
Supported
Projects may focus on publications which benefit
the profession of art and visual resources librarianship, as well as the
broader world of librarianship, through such means as compilation and
dissemination of information, translation of original scholarship,
analysis of our professions, or the enhancement of access to information.
In addition, eligible projects include those which result in original
scholarship in the literary, musical, architectural and visual arts and
aspects of visual and material culture.
Award
Amounts
Recipients may receive awards ranging from a
certificate of merit to a cash award of up to $1500.
Eligibility: Format & Material
Types
All formats are eligible, including hard copy,
fiche, video, audio, and digital. The following types of material are
eligible: monographs, journal articles, essays in collected works,
individual numbers of journals devoted to a special topic where
nominee(s) appears as either editor or author, or other types of
materials which meet the purpose of the award. The following types of
materials are not eligible: theses, dissertations, annual reports,
posters, newsletters, or other types of materials judged by the Committee
not to meet the Purpose of the Awards.
Publication Date
The
work must have been published during the 2006 or 2007 calendar year. For
the 2007 awards, all calendar year 2006 publications and any 2007
publications whose nominations are postmarked by the January 15, 2008
nomination deadline will be eligible. In the case of journals, when the
journal enumeration lags behind the publication date, the Committee will
consider the date of the issue's appearance as the publication
date.
Authorship
This Award
is available to ARLIS/NA Individual members only (including special
Individual membership categories, "Honorary",
"Student", "Retired", and "Unemployed").
Author(s) must have been an Individual ARLIS/NA member during both the
year of publication (2006 or 2007) and the year of nomination (2007).
Membership records held by the ARLIS/NA national headquarters will be
consulted in the event of any questions regarding membership. Individuals
may be considered for more than one publication.
Group projects undertaken by not more than four authors are eligible. At
least half the participants must meet the above ARLIS/NA membership
criteria.
Institutional members, official groups, Committees, Chapters, Divisions,
and Sections of the Society are NOT ELIGIBLE to apply for this Award.
Current members of the ARLIS/NA Executive Board and the Research
Committee are not eligible. Past recipients of the ARLIS/NA Research
Award or the H.W. Wilson Research Award are eligible.
Nomination
Procedure
Publications to be considered for the Award may
be nominated by self-nomination, nomination by a colleague, or nomination
by the Committee. A completed nomination form must accompany each
nomination.
If the publication is an article or essay, a photocopy must be supplied.
Copies of journals, monographs, CD-ROMs, videos, etc. should be sent with
the Nomination Form when possible. Where nominators, authors, or
publishers are unable to supply the Committee with a copy of the
publication, the Committee will consult the publication, as available, in
library collections. In the case of non-traditional media or forms of
dissemination, appropriate means for access must be indicated. Materials
will be returned provided a stamped return mailer is provided or COD
return arrangement is indicated.
Application
Schedule
Applications and accompanying material must be
postmarked by January 15, 2008. Nominations will be reviewed by the
ARLIS/NA Research Committee. Notification of the Committee's decision
will be mailed to all authors and nominators no later than March 31,
2008. Public announcement of the Award winner(s) and the presentation of
the Award check(s) will be made at the annual ARLIS/NA conference in
Denver, May, 2008.
Application Review
Process
The Research Committee will review and judge
applications based on several factors, including:
- Overall contribution to the field.
- Originality of scholarship.
- Effective presentation of material.
- Quality of writing.
- Appropriateness of format for the highest potential utilization of
the material.
When works are judged to be of equal merit, preference may be given
to applicants who have not previously received an Award.
Additional copies of these guidelines are available from:
Hannah Bennett
Public Services Librarian
Yale University
Art and Architecture Library
180 York Street
P.O. Box 208242
New Haven, CT 06520-8242
Phone: (203) 436-8052
Alan Michelson
Head, Architecture and Urban Planning Library
University of Washington, Seattle
Box 355730
Seattle, WA 98195-5730
Phone: (206) 543-7091
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