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The Dartmouth Medal of the American Library Association is awarded annually to a reference work of outstanding quality and significance, published during the previous calendar year. The Medal was designed by Rudolph Ruzicka.[1]
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.
Dartmouth Medal recipients
| Dartmouth Medal Recipients[2] | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Award | Editor-in-Chief | Book title or other citation | Publisher |
| 1975 | Dartmouth Medal | Script error: No such module "sort". | "NASIC, Northeast Academic Science Information Center, a regional experiment in the brokerage of information services."[3][4][5] | Script error: No such module "sort". |
| 1976 | no award | |||
| 1977 | Dartmouth Medal | Script error: No such module "sort". | 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 |
| 1978 | Dartmouth Medal | Script error: No such module "sort". | International Encyclopedia of Psychiatry, Psychology, Psychoanalysis and Neurology | Aesculapius Publishers by Van Nostrand Reinhold |
| 1979 | Dartmouth Medal | Script error: No such module "sort". | Encyclopedia of Bioethics | Free Press |
| 1980 | no award | |||
| 1981 | Dartmouth Medal | Script error: No such module "sort". | Dictionary of Scientific Biography | Charles Scribner's Sons |
| 1982 | Dartmouth Medal | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Grove's Dictionaries of Music |
| 1983 | Dartmouth Medal | Script error: No such module "sort". | "The body of its reference works which provide exceptional access to current and retrospective publications of the United States Government and to statistical publications from a wide variety of sources." | Script error: No such module "sort". |
| 1984 | Dartmouth Medal | Script error: No such module "sort". | Times Atlas of the Oceans | Van Nostrand Reinhold |
| 1985 | Dartmouth Medal | Wilsonline | H. W. Wilson Company | |
| 1986 | Dartmouth Medal | Script error: No such module "sort". | International Encyclopedia of Education: Research and Studies | Pergamon Press |
| 1987 | Dartmouth Medal | Script error: No such module "sort". | Encyclopedia of the American Constitution | Macmillan Publishers |
| 1988 | Dartmouth Medal | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Encyclopedia of Religion | Macmillan Publishers |
| 1989 | Dartmouth Medal | Script error: No such module "sort". | We the People: An Atlas of America's Diversity | Macmillan Publishers |
| 1990 | Dartmouth Medal | Script error: No such module "sort". | Encyclopedia of Southern Culture | University North Carolina Press |
| Honorable Mention | Script error: No such module "sort". | Dictionary of the Middle Ages | Charles Scribner's Sons | |
| 1991 | Dartmouth Medal | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Encyclopedia of the Holocaust | Macmillan Publishers |
| Honorable Mention | Script error: No such module "sort". | Art Across America: Two Centuries of Regional Painting, 1710-1920 | Abbeville Press | |
| 1992 | Dartmouth Medal | Script error: No such module "sort". | Atlas of United States Environmental Issues | Macmillan Publishers |
| Honorable Mention | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Houghton Mifflin | |
| 1993 | Dartmouth Medal | Script error: No such module "sort". | Encyclopedia of Sociology | Macmillan Publishers |
| Honorable Mention | Script error: No such module "sort". | Oxford Companion to the English Language | Oxford University Press | |
| 1994 | Dartmouth Medal | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Black Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia | Carlson Publishers |
| Honorable Mention | Script error: No such module "sort". | Encyclopedia of American Social History | Charles Scribner's Sons | |
| 1995 | Dartmouth Medal | Script error: No such module "sort". | Encyclopedia of the American Presidency | Simon & Schuster |
| Honorable Mention | Script error: No such module "sort". | Encyclopedia of the Musical Theatre | Schirmer Books | |
| 1996 | Dartmouth Medal | Script error: No such module "sort". | Civilizations of the Ancient Near East | Macmillan Publishers / Charles Scribner's Sons |
| Honorable Mention | Script error: No such module "sort". | Encyclopedia of Bioethics | Macmillan Publishers | |
| Script error: No such module "sort". | Encyclopedia of New York City | Yale University Press | ||
| 1997 | Dartmouth Medal | Script error: No such module "sort". | Dictionary of Art | Macmillan Publishers |
| Honorable Mention | Script error: No such module "sort". | Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History | Macmillan Library Reference | |
| Script error: No such module "sort". | Charles Scribner's Sons | |||
| Script error: No such module "sort". | Encyclopedia of Latin American History and Culture | Charles Scribner's Sons | ||
| 1998 | Dartmouth Medal | Script error: No such module "sort". | Jewish Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia | Routledge |
| Honorable Mention | Script error: No such module "sort". | Encyclopedia of Africa: South of the Sahara | Charles Scribner's Sons | |
| Script error: No such module "sort". | Garland Encyclopedia of World Music: Africa | Garland Publishing | ||
| Encyclopedia Judaica on CD-ROM | Judaica Multimedia | |||
| 1999 | Dartmouth Medal | Script error: No such module "sort". | American National Biography | Oxford University Press |
| Honorable Mention | Script error: No such module "Sort". | International Encyclopedia of Dance | Oxford University Press | |
| Script error: No such module "sort". | Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy | Routledge | ||
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Columbia Gazetteer of the World | Columbia University Press | ||
| 2000 | Dartmouth Medal | Script error: No such module "sort". | Encyclopedia of the Renaissance | Charles Scribner's Sons |
| Honorable Mention | Script error: No such module "sort". | Wiley Encyclopedia of Electrical and Electronics Engineering | John Wiley & Sons | |
| Script error: No such module "sort". | International Dictionary of Black Composers | Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers | ||
| Script error: No such module "sort". | Oxford Companion to Food | Oxford University Press | ||
| 2001 | Dartmouth Medal | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Women in World History | Gale |
| Honorable Mention | Script error: No such module "sort". | Encyclopedia of the American Civil War | ABC-CLIO | |
| Script error: No such module "sort". | Encyclopedia of Forensic Sciences | Academic Press | ||
| 2002 | Dartmouth Medal | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt | Oxford University Press |
| Honorable Mention | Script error: No such module "sort". | New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians | Grove's Dictionaries of Music | |
| 2003 | Dartmouth Medal | Script error: No such module "sort". | Garland Encyclopedia of World Music | Routledge |
| 2004 | Dartmouth Medal | Script error: No such module "sort". | Encyclopedia of Food and Culture | Charles Scribner's Sons |
| Honorable Mention | Script error: No such module "sort". | Holocaust Literature: An Encyclopedia of Writers and Their Work | Routledge | |
| 2005 | Dartmouth Medal | Script error: No such module "sort". | Oxford Dictionary of National Biography | Oxford University Press |
| 2006 | Dartmouth Medal | Script error: No such module "sort". | Encyclopedia of the Documentary Film | Routledge / Taylor & Francis |
| Honorable Mention | Script error: No such module "sort". | Oxford Encyclopedia of Latinos and Latinas in the United States | Oxford University Press | |
| 2007 | Dartmouth Medal | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Encyclopaedia Judaica | Gale |
| Honorable Mention | Script error: No such module "sort". | Historical Statistics of the United States: Earlier Times to the Present: Millennial Edition | Cambridge University Press | |
| 2008 | Dartmouth Medal | Script error: No such module "sort". | Oxford Encyclopedia of Maritime History | Oxford University Press |
| 2009 | Dartmouth Medal | Pop Culture Universe (online database pop.greenwood.com) |
Greenwood Publishing Group | |
| Honorable Mention | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Yale University Press | |
| 2010 | Dartmouth Medal | Script error: No such module "sort". | Encyclopedia of Human Rights | Oxford University Press |
| Honorable Mention | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Gale | |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Sage Reference | ||
| 2011 | Dartmouth Medal | Script error: No such module "sort". | Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion and the online Berg Fashion Library | Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Honorable Mention | Script error: No such module "sort". | Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade | Yale University Press | |
| 2012 | Dartmouth Medal | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Green's Dictionary of Slang | Chambers |
| Honorable Mention | Script error: No such module "sort". | International Encyclopedia of Political Science | SAGE reference in association with the International Political Science Association | |
| Lifetime Achievement Award | Statistical Abstract of the United States | U.S. Department of Commerce | ||
| 2013 | Dartmouth Medal | Script error: No such module "sort". | Dictionary of American Regional English | Belknap Press |
| Honorable Mention | Script error: No such module "Sort"., ed. | Encyclopedia of Ancient History | Wiley-Blackwell | |
| 2014 | Dartmouth Medal | Script error: No such module "sort". | Mammals of Africa | Bloomsbury Natural History |
| Honorable Mention | International Encyclopedia of Ethics | Wiley-Blackwell | ||
| Encyclopedia of Caribbean Religions | University of Illinois Press | |||
| 2015 | Dartmouth Medal | Script error: No such module "sort". | Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism | Princeton University Press |
| 2016 | Dartmouth Medal | Brent Strawn, editor-in-chief | Oxford Encyclopedia of the Bible and Law | Oxford University Press |
| Honorable Mention | Thomas Riggs, editor | Worldmark Global Business and Economy Issues | Gale | |
| 2017 | Dartmouth Medal | Gillian Vogelsang-Eastwood | Encyclopedia of Embroidery from the Arab World | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Honorable Mention | Franklin W. Knight and Henry Louis Gates, Jr. | Dictionary of Caribbean and Afro-Latin American Biography | Oxford University Press | |
| 2018 | Dartmouth Medal | Script error: No such module "sort". | The Music of Central Asia | Indiana University Press |
| Honorable Mention | Script error: No such module "sort". | The International Encyclopedia of Geography: People, the Earth, Environment, and Technology | Wiley-Blackwell and the American Association of Geographers | |
| Script error: No such module "sort". | The Atlas of Ancient Rome | Princeton University Press | ||
| 2019 | Dartmouth Medal | Script error: No such module "sort". | Marine Fishes of Arctic Canada | University of Toronto Press |
| Honorable Mention | Script error: No such module "sort". | Beetles: The Natural History and Diversity of Coleoptera | Firefly Books | |
| Script error: No such module "sort". | TESOL Encyclopedia of English Language Teaching | Wiley-Blackwell | ||
| 2020 | Dartmouth Medal | Howard Chiang | Global Encyclopedia of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ) History[6] | Gale |
| Honorable Mention | James E. Brunson, III | Black Baseball, 1858-1900: A Comprehensive Record of the Teams, Players, Managers, Owners and Umpires | McFarland | |
| Thomas Couser and Susannah B. Mint | Disability Experiences: Memoirs, Autobiographies, and Other Personal Narratives | Gale | ||
| Murray Fraser | Sir Banister Fletcher’s Global History of Architecture (21st ed.) | Bloomsbury Publishing | ||
| 2021[7] | Dartmouth Medal | Spencer C. Tucker | The Cold War: The Definitive Encyclopedia and Document Collection | ABC-Clio |
| Honorable Mention | Colleen Boyett, H. Micheal Tarver, and Mildred Diane Gleason | Daily Life of Women: An Encyclopedia from Ancient Times to the Present | Greenwood | |
| Bob Gale, Pam Gale, and Ashby Gale | A Beachcomber’s Guide to Fossils | University of Georgia Press | ||
| Norman I. Platnick, Gustavo Hormiga, Peter Jäger, Rudy Jocqué, Norman I. Platnic, Martín J. Ramírez, and Robert J. Raven | Spiders of the World: A Natural History | Princeton University Press | ||
| 2022[8] | Dartmouth Medal | David Wondrich with Noah Rothbaum | The Oxford Companion to Spirits and Cocktails | Oxford University Press |
| Honorable Mention | Michael B. Montgomery and Jennifer K.N. Heinmiller | Dictionary of Southern Appalachian English | University of North Carolina Press | |
| Iain Campbell, Ken Behrens, Charley Hesse, and Phil Chaon | Habitats of the World: A Field Guide for Birders, Naturalists, and Ecologists | Princeton University Press | ||
| 2023[9] | Dartmouth Medal | Herman Shugart, Peter White, Sassan Saatchi, and Jérôme Chave | The World Atlas of Trees and Forests: Exploring Earth’s Forest Ecosystems | Princeton University Press |
| Honorable Mention | Patrick Hanks and Simon Lenarčič with Peter McClure | Dictionary of American Family Names, 2nd Edition | Oxford University Press | |
| Glenn Bartley and Andy Swash | Hummingbirds: A Celebration of Nature’s Jewels | Princeton University Press | ||
| Victoria Finlay | Fabric: Hidden History of the Material World | Pegasus Books | ||
| Yvonne Wakim Dennis, Arlene Hirschfelder, and Paulette F. Molin | Indigenous Firsts: A History of Native American Achievement and Events | Visible Ink Press | ||
| 2024[10] | Dartmouth Medal | Stephen A. Marshall | Hymenoptera: The Natural History and Diversity of Wasps, Bees and Ants | Firefly Books |
| Honorable Mention | Bowern, Claire (Editor) | Oxford Guide to Australian Languages | Oxford University Press | |
| Michael Shally-Jensen (Editor) | Critical Survey of Mythology & Folklore: Creation Myths | Salem Press | ||
| Robert C. Evans (Editor) | Notable Writers of LGBTQ+ Literature | Salem Press | ||
| 2025[11] | Dartmouth Medal | Roger D. Launius | Smithsonian Atlas of Space: A Map to the Universe from the Big Bang to the Future | Smithsonian Books. |
Sources
- American Library Association Reference and User Services Association[12]
External links
- ↑ Rudolph Ruzicka's Two Dartmouth Medals. Dartmouth Alumni Magazine. (October 1983: 46-47.
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- ↑ Moore, Ninah. 2025 Dartmouth Medal Winner Announced.Reference and User Services Association, American Library Association. RUSA UpdateJanuary 26, 2025.
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