Katharine Kyes Leab and Daniel J. Leab
American Book Prices Current Exhibition Catalogue Awards
These awards, funded by an endowment established by Katharine Kyes Leab and Daniel J. Leab, editors of American Book Prices Current, recognize outstanding exhibition catalogues issued by American or Canadian institutions in conjunction with library exhibitions as well as electronic exhibition catalogues of outstanding merit issued within the digital/web environment.
Award
A printed citation to be presented to the winning institution organizing the exhibition.
Eligibility
Catalogues must be issued between September 1, 2008 and August 31, 2009. Electronic library and archival exhibitions are limited to those with stable URL addresses that were initially released between September 1, 2008 and August 31, 2009. Electronic exhibitions submitted for consideration should be available online through September 2010, to allow adequate time for public views.
The entries will be divided into five categories: expensive, moderate, inexpensive, brochure, and electronic exhibition. The five categories shall be determined by production costs as outlined in the entry form. The budget categories will be defined by the committee according to the range of costs of catalogues submitted. Catalogues may be of varying formats, styles, and scope, e.g., an inclusive list of items in an exhibition, a selective list, or a narrative with some specific citations. Publicity materials, collections of essays, and other publications lacking specific references to displayed objects as such are not eligible.
Criteria
Catalogues will be judged on originality, accuracy of detail, informational content, visual impact, contribution to scholarship, and usefulness to the intended audience.
Submissions
Four (4) copies of the catalogue must be submitted with four (4) copies of the entry form (available from the chair of the committee) to the Award Committee Chair, Richard Noble, Brown University, John Hay Library, Providence, RI 02912; T. 401-863-1187; e-mail: richard_noble@brown.edu . All catalogue submissions become the property of the Rare Books and Manuscripts Section (RBMS).
Questions concerning the awards and the submission process should be directed to Richard Noble, richard_noble@brown.edu or Megan Griffin, ACRL Program Coordinator, mgriffin@ala.org.
Deadline: Postmarked by October 15, 2009
Previous Recipients
2008
Category 1 Winner (Expensive)
The winner is Illustrating the Good Life: The Pissarros' Eragny Press, 1894-1914: A Catalogue of an Exhibition of Books, Prints & Drawings Related to the Work of the Press, submitted by The Grolier Club.
One Book, Many Interpretations.
Category 3 Winner (Inexpensive)
Vassar College piece entitled Mapping America: 500 Years of Cartographic Depictions.
Category 5 Winner (Electronic exhibition)
The North Carolina State University Libraries Special Collections Research Center for B. W. Wells, Pioneer Ecologist, http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/exhibits/wells/.
2007
The co-winner is "Half-Life: 25 Years of Books by Barbara Tetenbaum and Triangular Press" submitted by the Multnomah County Public Libraries, John Wilson Special Collections Room in Portland, Ore.
Category 2 Winner (Moderately expensive)
The New York Public Library, Dorot Jewish Division for their piece entitled "Letters to Sala: A Young Woman’s Life in Nazi Labor Camps," by Ann Kirschner.
The co-winner is "Ezra Pound in His Time and Beyond: The Influence of Pound on Twentieth-Century Poetry," submitted by the University of Delaware Library.
Category 4 Winner (Brochures)
Getty Research Institute brochure entitled "A Tumultuous Assembly: Visual Poems of the Italian Futurists."
2006
Category 1 Winner (Expensive)
"A Heavenly Craft: The Woodcut in Early Printed Books," submitted by the Library of Congress, Rare Book and Special Collections Division.
Category 3 Winner (Inexpensive)
"City Lights Pocket Poets series, 1955-2005: from the collection of Donald A. Heneghan," submitted by The Grolier Club.
Category 5 Winner (Electronic exhibition)
The Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections at the Cornell University Library for "From Dublin to Ithaca: Cornell's James Joyce Collection," http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/joyce/introduction/
2005
Category 2 Winner (Moderately Expensive)
Huntington Library, Huntington Library Press for their piece entitled "Objects of American Art Education: Highlights from the Diana Korzenik Collection," by Diana Korzenik.
Category 4 Winner (Brochures)
Vassar College’s brochure entitled "Uncle Tom’s Cabin in Print: The Collection of Mary C. Schlosser," by Mary Schlosser, Ronald Patkus, and Joyce Bickerstaff.
2004
Category 1 Winner (Expensive)
Elizabeth I: Then and Now, by Georgiana Ziegler, compiler, and submitted by the Folger Shakespeare Library
First Impressions: The Fledgling Years of the Black Sparrow press 1966-1970, by Professor Michael O’Driscoll, et al.
Category 3 Winner (Inexpensive)
The Auroral Light: Photographs by Women from Grolier Club Member Collections, by Anne H. Hoy and Kimball Higgs, from The Grolier Club
Robert Motherwell: A la pintura/To Painting
Category 5 Winner (Electronic Exhibitions)
Bancroft Library of the University of California, The California Grizzly at the Bancroft Library, http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/Exhibits/bearinmind
2003
Category 1 Winner (Expensive)
Getty Research Institute, Devices of Wonder: From the World in a Box to Images on a Screen
Honorable Mention: Stanford University Libraries, Johannes Lebek: The Artist as a Witness of His Time
Category 2 Winner (Moderately Expensive)
College of the Holy Cross, Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Art Gallery and the American Antiquarian Society, Sacred Spaces: Building & Remembering Worship in the Nineteenth Century.
Category 3 Winner (Inexpensive)
The New York Public Library, Graphic Design Department, Victorians, Moderns, Beats: New in the Berg Collection, 1994-2001.
Category 4 Winner (Brochures)
Library of Virginia, Virginia Roots Music: Creating and Conserving Tradition.
Honorable Mention: Pierpont Morgan Library, A Love Affair with Line: Drawings by Al Hirschfeld.
Special Commendations for Electronic Exhibitions: The Bancroft Library, University of California-Berkeley, Images of Native Americans
2002
Category 1 Winner (Expensive)
The Great Wide Open: Panoramic Photographs of the American West, Huntington Library.
Honorable Mention: Trout Gallery at Dickinson College for Writing on Hands: Memory and Knowledge in Early Modern Europe.
Category 2 Winner (Moderately Expensive)
The Ecstatic Journey: Athanasius Kircher in Baroque Rome, Dept. of Special Collections at the Univ. of Chicago.
Category 3 Winner (Inexpensive)
Cut and Paste--California Scrapbooks, California Historical Society at the North Baker Research Library
Category 4 Winner (Brochures)
Ruskin's Italy, Ruskin's England, Pierpont Morgan Library Publications
Special Commendations for Electronic Exhibitions
From Domesticity to Modernity: What Was Home Economics, Cornell University Library, and Heading West/Touring West, New York Public Library.
2001
Category 1 Winner (Expensive)
Ulysses in Hand: The Rosenbach Manuscript, The Rosenbach Library
Category 2 Winner (Moderately Expensive)
Word and Image: Samuel Beckett and the Visual Text, Emory University Robert W. Woodruff Library and Insistut Memoires de l'edition contemporaine, Paris
Category 3 Winner (Inexpensive)
Curious George Comes to Hattiesburg: The Life and Work of H.A. and Margaret Rey, University of Southern Mississippi Libraries, de Grummond Children's Literature Collection
Category 4 Winner (Brochures)
So Fairly Bound: Fine Twentieth-Century Bookbindings and Illuminated Manuscripts from the Edward R. Leahy Collection, University of Scranton, Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Memorial Library