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Hello!
The ALA/ACRL/RBMS Exhibition Awards Committee is pleased to announce that submissions for the 2020 Katharine Kyes Leab & Daniel J. Leab American Book Prices Current Exhibition Awards have been extended through January 1, 2021.
Prizes will be administered and awarded by the Exhibition Awards Committee for excellence in the publication and production of catalogs and brochures across five categories: expensive, moderately expensive, inexpensive, brochures and electronic / digital. For more information, and a list of previous winners, please see http://www.ala.org/acrl/awards/publicationawards/leabawards.
This year, we are pleased to announce a new category for student work!
Submissions are welcome from libraries, archives, museums, and any other organization that produces an exhibition catalogue or a digital exhibition.
Submissions of printed materials (4 copies of each catalog or brochure) must be postmarked by January 1. For digital exhibitions, only an entry form is required. The form should be submitted online by January 1.
Winners will be notified in May 2021 and awards will be announced at the annual RBMS conference in June 2021.
Questions and concerns may be directed to Emma Sarconi (esarconi@princeton.edu).
We look forward to seeing your submissions!
Sincerely,
Leslie J. Winter
Katharine Kyes Leab & Daniel J. Leab American Book Prices Current Exhibition Awards Committee
Rare Books & Manuscripts Section, ACRL, ALA
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Leslie Winter
Instructional Assistant Professor
Texas A&M University Libraries
lesliejwinter@library.tamu.edu------------------------------