Worldwide Books Publication and Electronic Resource Awards
Worldwide Books sponsors two annual cash awards that are administered through ARLIS/NA (Art Libraries Society of North America). The awards recognize outstanding print and/or electronic resources produced by individual members of ARLIS/NA. Eligible projects in print format include publications that benefit the profession of art and visual resources librarianship; that result in original scholarship in the literary, musical, architectural or visual arts; or that address aspects of visual and material culture. Eligible electronic projects may be works that improve access to art information and benefit the profession of art and visual resources librarianship, and may include web-based databases and indexes, virtual exhibitions, CD-ROM or DVD products, and publications promoting electronic resources.
For further information, please visit the ARLIS/NA Web site where eligibility guidelines and application procedures are fully outlined.
We would like to congratulate the winners of this year's Worldwide Books Awards, who each received a $1,000 prize, and to thank the ARLIS/NA Research Awards Committee for carefully reviewing the nominations and for selecting the winners: the Worldwide Books Publication Award was presented to Richard Minsky of the Center for Book Arts for "The Art of American Book Covers" (Worldwide 138551). Kristen Regina, Head of Research Collections at Hillwood Estate, Museum & Gardens, received honorable mention for "Slavic and Eastern European Visual Works on Paper in the Washington, DC Region," published as Volume 11, Issue 2/3 of Slavic & East European Information Resources. The winner of the Worldwide Books Electronic Resources Award was Samantha Deutch of the Center for the History of Collecting in America, Frick Art Reference Library, for the project Archives Directory for the History of Collecting in America.
