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Competition: Leab Exhibition Awards (Rare Books and Manuscripts Section, ACRL/ALA) 

Forwarded to STHC-L (The Science, Technology, and Health Care Archives 
Forum) from ARCHIVES.

Note the expansion in scope of this set of awards from its previous 
incarnation--a change which is evident in how the word "Catalogue" was 
dropped from the name "Exhibition Catalogue Awards Committee":  There 
is now a category for inexpensive informative 
leaflets/brochures/broadsides, so that these guides are not forced to 
compete with more expensively-produced  (and costlier-looking) small 
catalogs.  And there is now a new category for _online exhibitions_ of 
library and archival material, which is going to cause the committee 
all kinds of headaches to judge but which will open up an exciting new 
avenue of peer-recognition and public relations benefits.


Russell Johnson
STHC-L administrator and STHC Roundtable Co-Chair

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Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 17:12:52 -0400
From: Diane Shaw <ShawD@SIL.SI.EDU>
Subject: Leab Exhibition Awards Competition
Sender: Archives & Archivists <ARCHIVES@LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU>
To: ARCHIVES@LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU


**This announcement is being selectively cross-posted, with apologies 
for duplication**

The RBMS Exhibition Awards Committee announces its 2001 Katharine Kyes 
Leab & Daniel J. Leab "American Book Prices Current" Exhibition Awards 
competition. Sponsored by the Rare Books and Manuscripts Section of 
ACRL/ALA, the competition includes two new categories in addition to 
printed exhibition catalogs: electronic exhibitions (also known as 
online or virtual exhibitions) and printed exhibition guides. Library 
and archival institutions based in the United States and Canada, 
including independent and public libraries and archives and those 
associated with colleges, universities, historical societies, and 
museums, are invited to submit exhibition publications for 
consideration in the following categories:

1. Printed exhibition catalogs published between 1 September 1999 and 
31 August 2000 that represent an exhibition of library or archival 
materials which has taken place or was in process before 31 August 
2000. See  http://www.rbms.nd.edu/ecac/entryform.html for the entry 
form and details.

2. Printed exhibition guides, including leaflets, brochures, and 
informative broadsheets that are ordinarily handed out free or for a 
maximum price of $1.00 during an exhibition and which serve to orient 
the viewer to the exhibition. Eligible guides must have been published 
between 1 September 1999 and 31 August 2000 and represent an exhibition 
of library or archival materials which has taken place or was in 
process before 31 August 2000. See 
http://www.rbms.nd.edu/ecac/entryform.html for the entry form and 
details.

3. Electronic exhibitions with stable URL addresses, initially released 
between 1 September 1998 and 31 August 2000 and featuring library and 
archival materials (this first year of the competition will cover a 
two-year retrospective period). See 
http://www.rbms.nd.edu/ecac/entryform_electronic.html for the entry 
form and details.

The announcement of the winning catalogs, guides, and electronic 
exhibitions selected from the pool of current Leab Award submissions 
will be announced in the spring of 2001, to be followed by the awarding 
of certificates to representatives of the winning institutions at the 
June 2001 American Library Association Annual Conference in San 
Francisco, Calif.

For more information, please see the "Guidelines and Rules for 
Submissions" at http://www.rbms.nd.edu/ecac/rules.html. You may also 
contact the current chair of the RBMS Exhibition Awards Committee, 
Diane Shaw, at the address/phone/e-mail address below, to answer your 
questions.

**Please note that the deadline for all submissions is 30 September 2000!**

Thank you for your attention.


S. Diane Shaw
Special Collections Cataloger
Smithsonian Institution Libraries
NHB 30
Washington, D.C. 20560
Phone: (202) 357-3161
Fax: (202) 786-2866
Email: shawd@sil.si.edu
SIL homepage: http://www.sil.si.edu
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Russell A. Johnson        rjohnson@library.ucla.edu
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