Date:         Thu, 18 Jan 2007 17:34:34 -0500
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Subject:      Re: Nominations for the 2007 ARSC Awards for Excellence
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To answer Joel's question, this issue has come up in the past. We
haven't expanded the awards for a couple of reasons. First, each of our
five judges already has between 30-50 books/liner notes to review- and
often they are given only 6-8 weeks for the first round. 

Second, we follow very strict guidelines for print publications- for the
2007 awards, the publication must bear a 2006 copyright date and can not
have been previously published. Revised editions, 1st U.S. editions, 1st
Eng. Language editions, etc. are not usually eligible. So, in order to
consider electronic publications, we'd need to figure out how to apply
the guidelines to electronically published materials- especially
material published on websites. How does one prove that a discography on
a website was published for the 1st time in 2006?

Comments welcome. Also, if you had a particular electronic publication
in mind that possibly meets the above guidelines, please let us know.

Brenda Nelson-Strauss
ARSC Awards Committee
 

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Subject: Nominations for the 2007 ARSC Awards for Excellence

Dear friends:

I have a question about the awards...has there been any discussion of 
including web-based research? Either in the same or in new 
categories? I reckon we ought to be encouraging it, and these or 
other public awards would be one way.

Thanks,

Joel Bresler
ARSC member

At 07:58 PM 1/16/2007, you wrote:
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>--- NOMINATIONS for the 2007 ARSC AWARDS FOR EXCELLENCE ---
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>You are invited to propose candidates for the 2007 ARSC Awards for
>Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research. Nominations may be
made by
>anyone, ARSC member or not. The deadline for nominations is January 31,
>2007.
>
>Eligible publications include any original printed work -- book,
monograph,
>article, liner notes, etc. -- first published during 2006. The work may
>treat any subject related to recorded sound, but must embody the
highest
>research standards. It should deal primarily with historical subjects,
>pertaining to periods at least ten years prior to the year of
publication,
>with the exception of works related to modern preservation or playback
>technology.



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