[slis] Award Announcement

[Joe Kearney <kearney@cs.uiowa.edu>]

ARLIS/NA
Art Libraries Society of North America
announces its
2001 Gerd Muehsam Award
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Sponsored by the Art Libraries Society of North America (ARLIS/NA) the
Gerd Muehsam Award is given annually to recognize excellence in a
graduate paper or project on a topic relevant to art librarianship.
This award was established to honor the memory of Gerd Muehsam
(1913-1979), distinguished scholar, teacher, and art bibliographer,
whose support of and dedication to ARLIS/NA was an inspiration to her
colleagues and students.

The Award Winner will Receive:
* $500 cash
* $300 travel reimbursement to attend the ARLIS/NA 30th Annual
Conference in St. Louis, Missouri, March 20 to 26, 2002 
* Registration fee to this Conference
* A one year membership to ARLIS/NA
* Publication of the abstract, and possibly the paper (if the
submission is a paper), in 
Art Documentation, ARLIS/NAs biannual journal.

Requirements:
* The paper or project must have been created or written during the
preceding 18 months by a student  enrolled in an accredited graduate
library program or in a post-graduate library 	school program in art
history or a related discipline.
* The paper or project must be in conjunction with a course assignment.

Required Format:
A paper must be 10-25 pages, typed, double-spaced on single sides of
8.5 x 11 inch paper. The paper must include an abstract of 250 words. 
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 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.

If an Internet project, the cover letter should provide a 250 word
summary of the project and its URL, and it must be accessible to all of
the committee members for review.

Judging Criteria:
Papers and projects will be judged on their relevance to art
librarianship or visual curatorship, depth of research and scholarship,
quality of organization, appropriate use of terminology, style and
readability, and originality of thought or observation.

Deadline:
Entries must be postmarked by Friday, November 16, 2001.  Entries will
not be returned.  All applicants should receive notification of the
winning paper by the end of February 2002.  The abstract of the winning
submissions will be published in Art Documentation, and if a paper, it
will be forwarded to the Art Documentation editor for possible
publication.

This announcement as well as additional information about ARLIS/NA can
be viewed at:
http://www.arlisna.org//

Please Mail Entries To:
Paula Gabbard, Chair, Gerd Muehsam Award Committee
Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library
1172 Amsterdam Ave. M.C. 0301
Columbia University
New York, NY 10027
Tel: (212) 854-6745   FAX: (212) 854-8904   e-mail:
gabbard@columbia.edu