Dear Colleagues,

I am pleased to announce that submissions for the 2015 Katharine Kyes Leab & Daniel J. Leab American Book Prices Current Exhibition Awards are being accepted until Wednesday October 15, 2014. The awards are given annually in recognition of excellence in the publication of catalogs and brochures that accompany exhibitions of library and archival materials, as well as for electronic exhibitions of such materials. The prizes are administered and awarded by the ALA/ACRL/RBMS Exhibition Awards Committee.

For full information about entering please see the submission page at: http://www.rbms.info/committees/exhibition_awards/submissions/rules.shtml, which includes links to pdf forms that can be filled in online, saved, printed, and emailed in one operation.

The October 15th deadline is a postmark/shipping deadline, designed to make sure that we received printed materials (4 copies of each catalog or brochure) by October 20th. For electronic exhibitions, only the filled in form is needed which asks for basic information about the exhibition and the names of its creators; this form can be completed in a few minutes. We also ask for CDs or DVDs of electronic exhibitions, if is all possible to provide them. After judging is completed and the awards announced, the printed materials, as well as CDs or DVDs, are sent to The Bancroft Library at UC Berkeley, The Harry Ransom Humanities Center in Austin Texas, and the Grolier Club in New York City. This constitutes a triplicate archive of the self-selected best work in the field. Lists and an exhibition of prize winners as well as lists of all materials submitted since the inception of the award in 1986, are available at this address: http://www.rbms.info/committees/exhibition_awards/first_ten_years/index.html

I welcome any questions potential submitters may have and look forward to your entries!

 

David Faulds

 

Chair, Katharine Kyes Leab & Daniel J. Leab American Book Prices Current Exhibition Awards Committee

Rare Books and Manuscript Section, ACRL, ALA

 

Curator of Rare Books and Literary Manuscripts
The Bancroft Library
University of California
Berkeley, CA 94720-6000

tel: (510) 642-1839
fax: (510) 642-7589

 

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