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John Benjamin Award Winners

1998

  • Miranda Howard Haddock - Darning the wear of time: Periodic literature on costume conservation, restoration and documentation

1999

  • Tara Leigh Tappert - The Periodical Literature of Twentieth-century Craft


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H. W. Wilson Foundation Research Award Winners

1994

  • Jack Robertson - Twentieth-century artists on art: an index to writings, statements, and interviews by artists, architects, and designers
  • Kathy Zimon - Douglas Cardinal: a bibliography of the literature to 1994

1995

  • Linda McRae - African ethnonyms : index to art-producing peoples of Africa

1996

  • Sheila Klos - Index to American women architects, 1945-1995: a guide to reproductions

1997

  • George McKee - Image of France index

1998

  • Nina Stephenson - Photography's history in Indonesia

1999

  • Clare Hills-Nova - Art History Methods: History and Issues

2000

  • Susan Koskinen - Joseph Esherick, Esherick Homsey Dodge & Davis: an annotated bibliography

2001

  • Jonathan Franklin - The Art Auction Catalogue: A Bibliographical Study
  • Lamia Doumato - Illuminated Manuscripts of the Crusader Era: A Bibliography

2002

  • Roberto C. Ferrari - The Letters of Simeon Solomon
  • Sara Harrington - Women's Work: The Valorization of Domestic Labor in American World War II Posters

2003

  • Sarah McCleskey - Staffing Standards and Core Competencies in Academic Art & Architecture Libraries: Case Studies

2004

  • Ruth Wallach - Public Art and City Transportation: Los Angeles, New York, Washington DC
  • Margaret Culbertson - House-Family Portrait Photographs of the Nineteenth Century

2005

  • Alfred Willis - American Bungalow Books, 1903-1952

2007

  • Dr. Suzanna Simor - Imaging the Creed: Visualizations of the Christian Creed from Charlemagne to Luther

2008

  • Michael Young - Santa Casa in Bohemia Sacra: Czech Baroque Copies in the Holy House of Loreto
  • Ian McDermott - Views of Los Angeles: a Historical and Statistical Analysis of Ed Ruscha's Artist's Books


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Worldwide Books Award for Publications Winners

1996

[award this year was called ARLIS/NA Individual Membership Publication Award]
  • Murtha Baca, James Bower, and Eleanor Fink - Union list of artist names
  • Toni Petersen - Art and architecture thesaurus and related publications
  • Jeanne Brown - Architecture and Building: Net Resources
    http://www.unlv.edu/library/ARCH/index.html

1997

  • Carla Freeman & Barbara Stevenson - Visual Resources Directory: art slide and photograph collections in the United States and Canada
  • May Castleberry - Perpetual Mirage: photographic narratives of the desert West
  • Irena Murray - Moshe Safdie: Buildings & Projects, 1967-1992

1998

  • Jane Block - Belgium: the golden decades
  • Irena Murray and Kathryn Jackson - Sources in iconography in the Blackader-Lauterman Library of Architecture and Art:  an annotated bibliography
  • Barbara Koerble - Articles in CITE and Texas Architect, 1996-97

1999

  • James A. Findlay - The WPA: an Exhibition of Works Progess Administration Literature and Art from the Collections of the Bienes Center for the Literary Arts
  • Laura Graveline - "Library Service to the African American Community" in Art Documentation 17 (1998)
  • Susan A. Lewis - Interior Design Sourcebook: A Guide to Resources on the History and Practice of Interior Design
  • Helen E. Roberts - Encyclopedia of Comparative Iconography: Themes Depicted in Works of Art
  • Edward H. Teague - Art and Design Resources on the World Wide Web
    http://afalib.uflib.ufl.edu/afa/artsorg/

2000

  • Lois Swan Jones - Art Information: How to Find It, How to Use It
  • Jane Devine - 100 Years of Architecture at Notre Dame: A History of the School of Architecture 1898-1998
  • Margaret Culbertson - Texas Houses Built by the Book: The Use of Published Designs, 1850-1925

2001

  • Paula A. Baxter - Encyclopedia of Native American Jewelry: A Guide to History, People, and Terms
  • Peter Erickson - Early Modern Visual Culture: Representation, Race, and Empire in Renaissance England
  • Kathy Zimon - Alberta Society of Artists: The First Seventy Years

2002

  • Lamia Doumato - "Opening the Door to Paradise: Bishop Theodorus and St. Thomas Imagery in Thirteenth Century Syria" in Al-Masaq" in: Islam and the Medieval Mediterranean, vol. 12, 2000, pp. 141-71
  • Elizabeth Broman - "Egyptian Revival Funerary Art in Green-Wood Cemetery" in: Markers: The annual journal of the Association for Gravestone Studies, vol. XVIII, 2001, pp. 30-67

2003

  • Christel McCanless - Faberge Eggs: a Retrospective Encyclopedia
  • James Findlay - Big Little Books: The Whitman Publishing Company's Golden Age, 1932-1938
  • Peter Erickson - Images of White Identity in Othello, and Can We Talk about Race in Hamlet?

2004

  • Joan Benedetti - Managing the Small Art Museum Library
  • Sarah McCleskey - Staffing Standards and Core Competencies in Academic Art and Architecture Departmental Libraries: A Preliminary Study

2005

  • Max Marmor - "From Purgatory to the Primavera: Some Observations on Botticelli and Dante", in Artibus et historiae, no. 48 (XXIV).

2006

  • Martin Aurand - The Spectator and the Topagraphical City

2007

  • Joan Benedetti - Art Museum Libraries and Librarianship
  • Honorable Mention:
    Elinor Nacheman - "Unveiled: A directory and guide to 19th century born artists active in Rhode Island, and where to find their work in publicly accessible Rhode Island collections" [self-published]

2008

  • Hee-Gwone Yoo, New York Public Library, and Kristen Regina - Visual Resources from Russia and Eastern Europe in the New York Public Library: A Checklist


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Worldwide Books Award for Electronic Resources Winners

2002

  • Roberto C. Ferrari - The Simeon Solomon Research Archive website

2003

  • Barbara Q. Prior - Ask Clarence: an Expert System for Art History Reference

2005

2006

  • Jeanne Brown - Las Vegas Artist's and Buildings Database
  • Susan Craig - Biographical Dictionary of Kansas Artists (active before 1945)

2007

2008

  • Lynda Bunting, Skye Lacerte, and Julie Yamashita - MOCA Exhibition Archive


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