ARLIS/NA Gerd Muehsam Award

September 8, 2011

Dear Faculty Member:

I am writing to you on behalf of the Art Libraries Society of North America (ARLIS/NA) regarding an award opportunity relevant to your students. The ongoing goals of ARLIS/NA include increasing awareness of ARLIS/NA among library school students and encouraging library school students to consider art librarianship as a career.  To these ends, the Society is offering the Gerd Muehsam Award. This is an annual award of $500 (plus up to $300 additional travel reimbursement to attend our annual conference) for a student paper or web project focused on a topic relevant to art librarianship or visual curatorship.

As a member of the Gerd Muehsam Award Committee of ARLIS/NA, I urge you to pass on information of this award to your best students. Students enrolled from this past fall and spring and through the summer are eligible to apply. Details of the award follow this email. An announcement is also available on the ARLIS/NA web site at http://www.arlisna.org. I will send you a reminder of this award in later in the fall.

To help our committee contact appropriate people in the future, please let me know the names and addresses of other faculty who might be interested in receiving this information and/or the means of contacting student listservs at your institution.

If you do not wish to be contacted about these kinds of awards or other matters of this nature, please let me know and I will remove you from our mailing list.

Thank you for your time and consideration.

Sincerely,

Erin Elliott

Chair, Gerd Muehsam Award Committee

Art Libraries Society of North America

Announces the 2012 Gerd Muehsam Award

Sponsored by the Art Libraries Society of North America (ARLIS/NA), the Gerd Muehsam Award is given annually in recognition of excellence in a graduate student paper or project on a topic relevant to art librarianship. The 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.

Award Details

• $500
• Up to $300 travel reimbursement to attend the ARLIS/NA 40^th Annual Conference in Toronto, Canada, March 29-April 2, 2012
• Registration fee to this conference
• A one year membership to ARLIS/NA

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
• One submission is allowed per person

Required Format

• Papers: The 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 must include a paper title, 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 or The Elements of Style by Strunk and White. In addition, authors should inform the committee chair if their contribution has been published previously or is being considered for publication.
• Internet projects: If an Internet project, a 250 word summary of the project, its URL, the name of the institution and course for which it was created, and the name of the faculty member assigning the project must be included.  It must also be accessible to all of the committee members for review.
• All applicants must include their mailing addresses, email addresses, and telephone numbers with their applications.

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 the end of the day, Friday, November 18, 2011.  They will not be returned.  All applicants should receive notification of the results by mid-February 2012.

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

Mail or Email Entries To

Erin Elliott

Chair, Gerd Muehsam Award Committee

Librarian

Sotheby’s Institute of Art

570 Lexington Ave. – 6^th floor

New York, NY 10022 USA

E-mail: e.elliott@sothebysinstitute.com