Dartmouth Medal

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

External links

• Dartmouth Medal, Reference and Users Association, American Library Association