Dartmouth Medal
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| Dartmouth Medal | |
| Awarded for | A reference work of outstanding quality and significance |
| Presented by | Reference and User Services Association (RUSA), a division of the American Library Association (ALA) |
| Country |  United States |
| First awarded | 1975 |
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The American Library Association’s Dartmouth Medal is awarded annually to a reference work of outstanding quality and significance, published during the previous calendar year.
[edit] History
Dartmouth College sponsored the establishment of the award in 1974, acting on the recommendation of Dean Lathem, Dartmouth College librarian, who had noted that no special honor existed in the United States for distinguished achievement relating to the creation of works of reference resources centrally important to libraries and to the pursuit of learning. Dartmouth College gave the American Library Association complete control in making the award and commissioned the artist Rudolph Ruzicka to design an oval bronze medal that features Athena, goddess of wisdom.
[edit] Dartmouth Medal Recipients
| Year | Editor-in-Chief | Book | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | John B. Hattendorf | Oxford Encyclopedia of Maritime History | Oxford University Press |
| 2007 | Fred Skolnik | Encyclopaedia Judaica | Thomson Gale |
| 2007 Honorable Mention | Susan B. Carter, et al | Historical Statistics of the United States: Earlier Times to the Present: Millennial Edition | Cambridge University Press |
| 2006 | Ian Aitken | Encyclopedia of the Documentary Film | Routledge/Taylor & Francis |
| 2006 Honorable Mention | Suzanne Oboler and Deena J. González | Oxford Encyclopedia of Latinos & Latinas in the United States | Oxford University Press |
| 2005 | H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison | Oxford Dictionary of National Biography | Oxford University Press |
| 2004 | Solomon H. Katz | Encyclopedia of Food and Culture | Charles Scribner's Sons |
| 2004 Honorable Mention | S. Lillian Kremer | Holocaust Literature: An Encyclopedia of Writers and Their Work | Routledge |
| 2003 | Bruno Nettl and Ruth M. Stone; founding editors, James Porter and Timothy Rice. | Garland Encyclopedia of World Music | Routledge |
| 2002 | Donald B. Redford | Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt | Oxford University Press |
| 2002 Honorable Mention | Stanley Sadie; executive editor, John Tyrrell | New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians | Grove’s Dictionaries |
| 2001 | Anne Commire | Women in World History | Gale Group |
| 2001 Honorable Mention | David S. Heidler and Jeanne T. Heidler | Encyclopedia of the American Civil War | ABC-CLIO |
| 2001 Honorable Mention | Jay A. Siegel | Encyclopedia of Forensic Sciences | Academic Press |
| 2000 | Paul F. Grendler | Encyclopedia of the Renaissance | Scribner's |
| 2000 Honorable Mention | John G. Webster | Wiley Encyclopedia of Electrical and Electronics Engineering | Wiley |
| 2000 Honorable Mention | Samuel A. Floyd, Jr. | International Dictionary of Black Composers | Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers |
| 2000 Honorable Mention | Alan Davidson | Oxford Companion to Food | Oxford University Press |
| 1999 | John A. Garraty & Mark C. Carnes | American National Biography | Oxford University Press |
| 1999 Honorable Mention | Selma Jeanne Cohen | International Encyclopedia of Dance | Oxford University Press |
| 1999 Honorable Mention | Edward Craig | Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy | Routledge |
| 1999 Honorable Mention | Saul B. Cohen | Columbia Gazetteer of the World | Columbia University Press |
| 1998 | Paula E. Hyman and Deborah Dash Moore | Jewish Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia | Routledge |
| 1998 Honorable Mention | John Middleton | Encyclopedia of Africa: South of the Sahara | Charles Scribner's Sons |
| 1998 Honorable Mention | Ruth M. Stone | Garland Encyclopedia of World Music: Africa | Garland |
| 1998 Honorable Mention | Encyclopedia Judaica on CD-ROM | Judaica Multimedia | |
| 1997 | Jane Turner | Dictionary of Art | Macmillan Publishers |
| 1997 Honorable Mention | Jack Salzman, David Lionel Smith, Cornel West | Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History | Macmillan Library Reference |
| 1997 Honorable Mention | The Middle Ages: An Encyclopedia for Students | Charles Scribner's Sons | |
| 1997 Honorable Mention | Barbara A. Tenenbaum | Encyclopedia of Latin American History and Culture | Charles Scribner’s Sons |
| 1996 | Jack M. Sasson | Civilizations of the Ancient Near East | Macmillan / Charles Scribner's Sons |
| 1996 Honorable Mention | Warren Thomas Reich | Encyclopedia of Bioethics | Macmillan |
| 1996 Honorable Mention | Kenneth T. Jackson | Encyclopedia of New York City | Yale University Press |
| 1995 | Leonard W. Levy, Louis Fisher | Encyclopedia of the American Presidency | Simon & Schuster |
| 1995 Honorable Mention | Kurt Gänzl | Encyclopedia of the Musical Theatre | Schirmer Books |
| 1994 | Darlene Clark Hine | Black Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia | Carlson Publishers |
| 1994 Honorable Mention | Mary Kupiec Cayton, Elliott J. Gorn, Peter W. Williams | Encyclopedia of American Social History | Charles Scribner's Sons |
| 1993 | Edgar F. Borgatta | Encyclopedia of Sociology | Macmillan Publishers |
| 1993 Honorable Mention | Tom McArthur | Oxford Companion to the English Language | Oxford University Press |
| 1992 | Robert J. Mason and Mark T. Mattson | Atlas of United States Environmental Issues | Macmillan Publishing |
| 1992 Honorable Mention | Eric Foner and John A. Garraty | The Reader's Companion to American History | Houghton Mifflin |
| 1991 | Israel Gutman | Encyclopedia of the Holocaust | Macmillan Publishing |
| 1991 Honorable Mention | William H. Gerdts | Art Across America: Two Centuries of Regional Painting, 1710-1920 | Abbeville Press |
| 1990 | Charles Reagan Wilson and William Ferris | Encyclopedia of Southern Culture | University North Carolina Press |
| 1990 Honorable Mention | Joseph R. Strayer | Dictionary of the Middle Ages | Scribner |
| 1989 | James Paul Allen and Eugene James Turner | We the People: An Atlas of America's Diversity | Macmillan Publishing |
| 1988 | Mircea Eliade | Encyclopedia of Religion | Macmillan |
| 1987 | Leonard W. Levy | Encyclopedia of the American Constitution | Macmillan Publishing |
| 1986 | Torsten Husén and T. Neville Postlethwaite | International Encyclopedia of Education: Research and Studies | Pergamon Press |
| 1985 | Wilsonline | H. W. Wilson Company | |
| 1984 | Alastair Couper | Times Atlas of the Oceans | Van Nostrand Reinhold Co. |
| 1983 | Congressional Information Service | ||
| 1982 | Stanley Sadie | New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians | Grove’s Dictionaries of Music |
| 1981 | Charles Coulston Gillispie | Dictionary of Scientific Biography | Scribner |
| 1980 | No Award | ||
| 1979 | Warren Reich | Encyclopedia of Bioethics | Free Press |
| 1978 | Benjamin B. Wolman | International Encyclopedia of Psychiatry, Psychology, Psychoanalysis and Neurology | Aesculapius Publishers by Van Nostrand Reinhold Co. |
| 1977 | Lester J. Cappon | Atlas of Early American History: The Revolutionary Era, 1760-1790 | Princeton University Press for the Newberry Library and the Institute of Early American History and Culture |
| 1976 | No Award | ||
| 1975 | New England Board of Higher Education | for establishing NASIC, Northeast Academic Science Information Center, a regional experiment in the brokerage of information services. |
[edit] Source
- American Library Association
