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Dear Colleagues, I am pleased to announce that submissions for the 2016 Katharine Kyes Leab & Daniel J. Leab American Book Prices Current Exhibition Awards are being accepted until Friday, October 9, 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 digital 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://rbms.info/committees/exhibition_awards/submission-rules/ which includes links to pdf forms that can be filled in online, saved, printed, and emailed in one operation. The October 9th deadline is a postmark/shipping deadline, designed to make sure that we received printed materials (4 copies of each catalog or brochure) by October 16th. For digital 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. After judging is completed and the awards announced, the printed materials are sent to The Bancroft Library at UC Berkeley, The Harry Ransom Humanities Center at UT Austin, 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://rbms.info/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 David Faulds 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 email: [log in to unmask] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Mail submissions to [log in to unmask] For information about joining ARLIS/NA see: http://www.arlisna.org/membership/join-arlisna Send administrative matters (file requests, subscription requests, etc) to [log in to unmask] ARLIS-L Archives and subscription maintenance: http://lsv.arlisna.org Questions may be addressed to list owner (Judy Dyki) at: [log in to unmask] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~