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Leab Exhibition Awards Competition



**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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