GUIDELINES FOR NOMINATION


LISABETH M. HOLLOWAY AWARD

This distinguished service award for members of the Archivists and Librarians in the History of the Health Sciences was named in honor of Lisabeth M. Holloway who was a founder and who served as president Pro Tem in 1975, and was for many years the editor of The Watermark. The award recognizes significant contributions through leadership and service to ALHHS and the profession.

Award Recipients:

  • Philip M. Teigen (2011)
  • Lucretia McClure (2003)
  • Judith (Robin) Overmier (2000)
  • Nancy Whitten Zinn (1997)
  • Estelle Brodman (1993)

Nominations Procedure

Nominations should be submitted as a one- to two-page letter describing the nominee's outstanding professional achievements and the impact of his/her contributions on ALHHS and the profession. A current curriculum vitae as well as letter(s) of support (a limit of 2) are not required but provide helpful additional information to the Award Committee. The Committee may also seek additional information on a nominee from the nominator or other sources as needed.

Criteria for evaluation:

  • Membership in ALHHS
  • ALHHS office(s) held
  • ALHHS committee(s) chaired or served on
  • Outstanding service to one's institution
  • Contributions to the profession, i.e., history of health science librarianship/archival administration.

A nominee cannot be a member of the Committee nor can a Committee member nominate. If no worthy nominations are received, no award will be given.

The winner will be announced at the annual meeting of ALHHS. The winner does not need to be present to win.

Submit nominations and any accompanying materials to the Chair of the committee by 1 March 2015:


Michael Flannery
Historical Collections
Lister Hill Library
University of Alabama at Birmingham
1720 Second Avenue SW
Birmingham, AL 35294-0013

For further information, please call the committee chair, Michael Flannery, at (205) 934-4475 or send an e-mail to flannery AT uab.edu.

 


 

ALHHS RECOGNITION OF MERIT

The ALHHS Recognition of Merit is designed to honor and recognize either members or nonmembers of the organization who made gifts of an extraordinary nature to health sciences libraries. It is awarded irregularly; no more than one award per year may be made.

Award Recipient:

  • Dr. and Mrs. Adam G.N. Moore (2014), for their support of the collections of the Center for the History of Family Medicine (American Academy of Family Physicians, Leawood, Kansas)
  • Erich Meyerhoff (2010)
  • Genevieve Miller (awarded 2007; presented in-person 2009)
  • William Helfand (2003)

There are two categories of recognition:

The first category of recognition: individuals, either members or non-members, who make gifts of an extraordinary nature to health sciences libraries. Gifts of magnitude would include, but not be limited, to the following:

  • Materials such as rare/historical books, journals, or items in other formats, of significant value, book collections by author or subject, or furniture, computers or other kinds of equipment.
  • Artwork such as portraits, posters, paintings, photographs, sculpture, instruments, medical objects.
  • Monetary gifts sufficient to establish memorials or endowments or significant donations
  • .

The second category of recognition: non-members of ALHHS who have provided long-time excellent service to health sciences libraries. Examples include:

  • A supporter of a library over a long period of time
  • A person who has made an intellectual contribution to a library by surveying or indexing a collection
  • A person who has given extraordinary support to a library by serving as an advocate to the administration of the institution

Nominations Procedure

Nominations should be submitted as a one- to two-page letter describing the nominee's outstanding scope of donations, for the first category; and his/her achievements and the impact of his/her contributions on health sciences libraries, for the second category. Letter(s) of support (a limit of 2) are not required but provide helpful additional information to the Award Committee. The Committee may also seek additional information on a nominee from the nominator or other sources as needed.

A nominee under the first category, if a member of ALHHS, cannot be a member of the Awards Committee. A Committee member cannot also make a nomination. If no worthy nominations are received, no award will be given.

The winner will be announced at the annual meeting of ALHHS and presented with an engraved crystal paperweight. The winner is not required to be present.

Submit nominations and any accompanying materials to the Chair of the committee by 1 March 2015:


Michael Flannery
Historical Collections
Lister Hill Library
University of Alabama at Birmingham
1720 Second Avenue SW
Birmingham, AL 35294-0013

For further information, please call the committee chair, Michael Flannery, at (205) 934-4475 or send an e-mail to flannery AT uab.edu.

 


 

ALHHS PUBLICATION AWARD

The Publication Award, established in 1992, is presented to the author(s) of a monograph, article, or online resource related to the history of the health care sciences, or works on the bibliography, librarianship and/or curatorship of historical collections in the health care sciences. The work must have been published in print or on the web within the three years prior to presentation of the award. At least one principal author of the work must be a member of ALHHS in good standing.

Award Recipients:

  • Best Monograph Award (2015) -- Shelly McKenzie. Getting Physical: The Rise of Fitness Culture in America (Lawrence, Kansas: University of Kansas Press, 2013)
  • Best Article Award (2015) -- Jeffrey S. Reznick. “Embracing the Future as Stewards of the Past: Charting a Course Forward for Historical Medical Libraries and Archives,” RBM: A Journal of Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Cultural Heritage Autumn 2014, 15:111-123
  • Best Online Resource Award (2015) -- Michelle DiMeo (Conference Organizer, Co-Author, and Editor), for "Emerging Roles for Historical Medical Libraries: Value in the Digital Age," which appeared in open access format in RBM: A Journal of Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Cultural Heritage, Autumn 2014. URL: http://rbm.acrl.org/content/vol15/issue2/index.dtl

  • Best Print Publication Award (2014) -- Eric W. Boyle. Quack Medicine: A History of Combating Health Fraud in Twentieth-Century America (Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger, 2013)
  • Best Online Resource Award (2014) -- Susan Hoffius (Curator) and Jennifer Welch (Digital Archivist). Porcher Medicinal Garden: Cultivating Our History, an online exhibition of the Waring Historical Library, Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) Library. Charleston, South Carolina: Waring Historical Library, 2012. URL: http://waring.library.musc.edu/exhibits/PMG/

  • Best Print Publication Award (Monograph) (2013) -- Michael Sapol (Ed.). Hidden Treasure: The National Library of Nedicine (New York: Blast Books, 2012)
  • . Also available as PDF document: http://collections.nlm.nih.gov/ext/pub/HIDDENTREASURE_NLM_BlastBooks.pdf
  • Best Print Publication Award (Article) (2013) -- Jeffrey Reznick for Lenore Barbian, Paul S. Sledzick, and Jeffrey Reznick. "Remains of war: Walt Whitman, Civil War soldiers, and the legacy of medical collections." Museum History Journal, January 2012, 5(1): 7-28
  • Best Online Resource Award (2013) -- The Medical Heritage Library. URL: http://www.medicalheritage.org/

  • Best Print Publication Award (2012) -- Ellen S. More, Elizabeth Fee, and Manon Perry, Eds. Women Physicians and the Cultures of Medicine (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009)
  • Best Online Resource Award (2012) -- Christopher Lyons. The Osler Library Prints Collection. 2011: McGill University Library. URL: http://digital.library.mcgill.ca/oslerprints/index.php

  • Monograph Award (2011) -- James M. Edmonson and John Harley Warner. Dissection: Photographs of a Rite of Passage in American Medicine 1880-1930 (New York: Blast Books, 2009)
  • Article Award (2011) -- Stephen J. Greenberg and Patricia E. Gallagher. "The great contribution: Index Medicus, Index-Catalogue, and IndexCat." Journal of the Medical Library Association. 2009 April; 97(2): 108–113. [PMCID: PMC2670211] [doi: 10.3163/1536-5050.97.2.007]

  • Michael Flannery (2006) -- Civil War Pharmacy: A History of Drugs, Drug Supply and Provision, and Therapeutics for the Union and Confederacy (New York: Pharmaceutical Products Press, 2004)
  • Christopher Hoolihan (2002)
  • Joan Klein and Jodi Koste (1998)
  • Jeremy Norman (1994)

Archivists and Librarians in the History of Health Sciences (ALHHS) is seeking nominations for the Publication Award. Books, significant articles, catalogs, bibliographies, and electronic resources related to the history of the health care sciences and works on the bibliography, librarianship, and/or curatorship of historical collections in the health care sciences are eligible for consideration.

Works must have been published within three years of the award date. Nominated authors must be ALHHS members in good standing.

Please present nominations for awards in "Monograph", "Article", or "Online Resource" categories. To nominate a work, please send 3 copies of a printed work (photocopies or PDFs of articles are acceptable) or the URL for an online resource. Please include a cover letter giving the item's complete citation (including all authors, publisher, and publication date). Authors may nominate their own works.

The Publication Award will be presented at the annual meeting on April 30, 2015. Winners do not need to be present to win.

The deadline for nominations (self-nominations are encouraged) is 1 March 2015. To receive complete information on the nominating process, please contact awards committee chair at james.edmonson AT case.edu or call (216) 368-6391.

James M. Edmonson
ALHHS Publications Award Chair
Dittrick Museum
Allen Memorial Library
11000 Euclid Avenue
Cleveland, OH 44106-1714

 


 

ALHHS CURATORSHIP AWARD

ALHHS established the Curatorship Award to recognize outstanding individual achievement by a member in the field of medical historical curatorship.

Award Recipient:

  • William Helfand (1996)