Dartmouth Medal
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| Dartmouth Medal | |
|---|---|
| Awarded for | A reference work of outstanding quality and significance |
| Country |  United States |
| Presented by | Reference and User Services Association (RUSA), a division of the American Library Association (ALA) |
| First awarded | 1975 |
| Official website | Dartmouth Medal |
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.
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
| Year | Award | Editor-in-Chief | Book title or other citation | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | Dartmouth Medal | Robert E. Buswell Jr. & Donald S. Lopez Jr. | Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism | Princeton University Press |
| 2014 | Dartmouth Medal | Jonathan Kingdon, David Happold, Thomas Butynski, Michael Hoffmann, Meredith Happold, Jan Kalina | Mammals of Africa | Bloomsbury Natural History |
| 2014 | Honorable Mention | International Encyclopedia of Ethics | Wiley-Blackwell | |
| 2014 | Honorable Mention | Encyclopedia of Caribbean Religions | University of Illinois Press | |
| 2013 | Dartmouth Medal | Frederic G. Cassidy, and Joan Houston Hall, ed. | Dictionary of American Regional English | Belknap Press |
| 2013 | Honorable Mention | Roger S. Bagnall, ed. | Encyclopedia of Ancient History | Wiley-Blackwell |
| 2012 | Dartmouth Medal | Jonathon Green | Green's Dictionary of Slang | Chambers |
| 2012 | Honorable Mention | Bertrand Badie, Dirk Berg-Schlosser, Leonardo Morlino | International Encyclopedia of Political Science | Sage Reference in association with the International Political Science Association |
| 2012 | Lifetime Achievement Award | Statistical Abstract of the United States | U.S. Department of Commerce | |
| 2011 | Dartmouth Medal | Joanne Bubolz Eicher | Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion and the online Berg Fashion Library | Bloomsbury Publishing |
| 2011 | Honorable Mention | David Eltis and David Richardson | Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade | Yale University Press |
| 2010 | Dartmouth Medal | David Forsythe | Encyclopedia of Human Rights | Oxford University Press |
| 2010 | Honorable Mention | David Pong | The Encyclopedia of Modern China | Gale |
| 2010 | Honorable Mention | Christopher Sterling | The Encyclopedia of Journalism | Sage Reference |
| 2009 | Dartmouth Medal | Pop Culture Universe (online database pop.greenwood.com) |
Greenwood Publishing Group | |
| 2009 | Honorable Mention | Gershon David Hundert | The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe | Yale University Press |
| 2008 | Dartmouth Medal | John B. Hattendorf | Oxford Encyclopedia of Maritime History | Oxford University Press |
| 2007 | Dartmouth Medal | 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 | Dartmouth Medal | Ian Aitken | Encyclopedia of the Documentary Film | Routledge / Taylor & Francis |
| 2006 | Honorable Mention | Suzanne Oboler and Deena J. González | Oxford Encyclopedia of Latinos and Latinas in the United States | Oxford University Press |
| 2005 | Dartmouth Medal | H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison | Oxford Dictionary of National Biography | Oxford University Press |
| 2004 | Dartmouth Medal | 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 | Dartmouth Medal | Bruno Nettl and Ruth M. Stone; founding editors, James Porter and Timothy Rice | Garland Encyclopedia of World Music | Routledge |
| 2002 | Dartmouth Medal | 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 | Dartmouth Medal | 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 | Dartmouth Medal | 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 | Dartmouth Medal | John A. Garraty and 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 | Dartmouth Medal | 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 | Dartmouth Medal | 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 | Dartmouth Medal | 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 | Dartmouth Medal | 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 | Dartmouth Medal | 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 | Dartmouth Medal | Edgar F. Borgatta | Encyclopedia of Sociology | Macmillan Publishers |
| 1993 | Honorable Mention | Tom McArthur | Oxford Companion to the English Language | Oxford University Press |
| 1992 | Dartmouth Medal | 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 | Dartmouth Medal | 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 | Dartmouth Medal | William Ferris | Encyclopedia of Southern Culture | University North Carolina Press |
| 1990 | Honorable Mention | Joseph R. Strayer | Dictionary of the Middle Ages | Scribner |
| 1989 | Dartmouth Medal | James Paul Allen and Eugene James Turner | We the People: An Atlas of America's Diversity | Macmillan Publishing |
| 1988 | Dartmouth Medal | Mircea Eliade | Encyclopedia of Religion | Macmillan |
| 1987 | Dartmouth Medal | Leonard W. Levy | Encyclopedia of the American Constitution | Macmillan Publishing |
| 1986 | Dartmouth Medal | Torsten Husén and T. Neville Postlethwaite | International Encyclopedia of Education: Research and Studies | Pergamon Press |
| 1985 | Dartmouth Medal | Wilsonline | H. W. Wilson Company | |
| 1984 | Dartmouth Medal | Alastair Couper | Times Atlas of the Oceans | Van Nostrand Reinhold |
| 1983 | Dartmouth Medal | (Congressional Information Service) | "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." | (Congressional Information Service) |
| 1982 | Dartmouth Medal | Stanley Sadie | The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians | Grove’s Dictionaries of Music |
| 1981 | Dartmouth Medal | Charles Coulston Gillispie | Dictionary of Scientific Biography | Scribner |
| 1980 | no award | |||
| 1979 | Dartmouth Medal | Warren Reich | Encyclopedia of Bioethics | Free Press |
| 1978 | Dartmouth Medal | Benjamin B. Wolman | International Encyclopedia of Psychiatry, Psychology, Psychoanalysis and Neurology | Aesculapius Publishers by Van Nostrand Reinhold |
| 1977 | Dartmouth Medal | 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 | Dartmouth Medal | (New England Board of Higher Education) | "NASIC, Northeast Academic Science Information Center, a regional experiment in the brokerage of information services." | (New England Board of Higher Education) |
Source
- American Library Association
