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(ARLIS/NA)
The Art Libraries Society of North America
announces its
1999 Gerd Muehsam Award


The Art Libraries Society of North America (ARLIS/NA) announces its 1999 =
Gerd
Muehsam Award.  This award is given annually to recognize excellence in a
graduate paper or project on a topic relevant to art librarianship or visual
resources curatorship.  This award was established to honor the memory of =
Gerd
Muehsam (1913-1979), distinguished scholar, teacher, and art biographer, =
whose
support of and dedication to ARLIS/NA was an inspiration
to her colleagues and students.

The Award Recipient will also Receive:

=2A  =24200 cash
=2A  A one year membership to ARLIS/NA
=2A  =24300 travel reimbursement to attend the ARLIS/NA 28th Annual =
Conference
    in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, March 16-23, 2000
=2A  Publication of your abstract, and possibly your paper, in Art =
Documentation,
ARLIS/NA's bi-annual journal


The paper or project must have been written during the preceding 18 months =
by a
student enrolled in an accredited graduate library program or in a post-MLS
program in art history or a related discipline, and must be in conjunction =
with
a course assignment.

The length of the paper should be 10-25 pages, with an abstract of 250 =
words.
All copy must be typed and double-spaced on one side of an 8-1/2 x 11 inch =
sheet
of paper or the entry may be submitted on a 3-1/2 inch disk.  The title page
should include the name of the entrant and the institution attended, the =
name of
the faculty member for whom it was written, and the course title.  The =
entrant's
name should not appear anywhere within the paper itself.  The bibliography =
and
footnotes should follow an accepted format, such as the Chicago Manual of =
Style.
In addition, authors should inform the committee chair if their contribution=
 has
been published previously or is being considered for publication elsewhere.

Papers will be judged based on their relevance to art librarianship or =
visual
curatorship, depth of research and scholarship, originality of thought or
observation, appropriate use of terminology, style, clarity, grammar, =
spelling
and punctuation.

Entries must be received no later than Wednesday, December 8th, 1999.  =
Entries
will not be returned.  The abstract of the winning paper will be published =
in
Art Documentation, and the paper will be forwarded to the Art Documentation
editor for possible publication.

This announcement can also be viewed on the ARLIS/NA Website at:
www.arlisna.org

Please mail entries to, or request further information from:
Jennifer L.S. Moldwin
Chair, Gerd Muehsam Award Committee
The Detroit Institute of Arts Research Library
5200 Woodward Avenue
Detroit, Michigan 48202
Tel. (313) 833-7929
Fax. (313) 833-9169
Email moldwin=40dia.ci.detroit.mi.us