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 Jeff Gunderson of the Anne Bremer Memorial Library at the San Francisco Art Institute for "A Combination of Accidents: The San Francisco Art Scene in the 1940's," an essay that appears in the book San Francisco Museum of Modern Art: 75 Years of Looking Forward (San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 2009); the winner of the Worldwide Books Electronic Resources Award was Katherine Chibnik of the Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library at Columbia University, for the online guide to the library's New York Real Estate Brochures Collection.
