Dartmouth Medal
The Dartmouth Medal is awarded annually by the Reference and User Services Association of the American Library Association for the creation of a reference work of outstanding quality and significance.

2005

Winner:  The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press)

2004

Winner:  Encyclopedia of Food and Culture (Charles Scribner's Sons)
Honorable Mention: Holocaust Literature: An Encyclopedia of Writers and Their Work (Routledge).

2003

Winner:  Garland Encyclopedia of World Music (Routledge).

2002

Winner:  The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt (Oxford Univ. Pr.)
Honorable Mention: New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (Grove’s Dictionaries, 2001)

2001

Winner:  Women in World History (Gale Group)
Honorable Mentions:
  • Encyclopedia of the American Civil War, (ABC-CLIO, 2000)
  • Encyclopedia of Forensic Sciences (Academic Press, 2000)

2000

Winner:  Encyclopedia of the Renaissance (Scribner's)
Honorable Mentions:
  • Encyclopedia of Electrical & Electronics Engineering (Wiley)
  • International Dictionary of Black Composers (Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers)
  • The Oxford Companion to Food (Oxford University Press)

1999

Winner:  American National Biography (Oxford Univ. Pr.), Eds. John A. Garraty & Mark C. Carnes. Honorable Mentions:
  • International Encyclopedia of Dance, (Oxford University Press)
  • Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, (Routledge)
  • The Columbia Gazetteer of the World, (Columbia University Press)

1998

Winner:  Jewish Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia (Routledge)
Honorable Mentions:
  • Encyclopedia of Africa: South of the Sahara (Charles Scribner's Sons)
  • The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music: Africa (Garland)
  • Encyclopedia Judaica on CD-ROM (Judaica Multimedia)

1997

Winner:  The Dictionary of Art (Groves Dictionaries)
Honorable Mentions:
  • Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History (Macmillan Reference)
  • The Middle Ages: An Encyclopedia for Students (Charles Scribner's Sons)
  • Encyclopedia of Latin American History and Culture (Charles Scribners Sons)

1996

Winner:  Civilizations of the Ancient Near East (Macmillan Library Reference/Charles Scribner's Sons) Honorable Mentions:
  • Encyclopedia of Bioethics (Macmillan)
  • Encyclopedia of New York City (Yale University Press)

1995

Winner:
  Encyclopedia of the American Presidency (Simon & Schuster)
Honorable Mention:  Encyclopedia of the Musical Theatre (Schirmer Books)

1994

Winner:  Black Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia (Carlson Pub)
Honorable Mention: Encyclopedia of American History (Charles Scribner's Sons)

1993

Winner:  Encyclopedia of Sociology (Macmillan, 1992)
Honorable Mention:  The Oxford Companion to the English Language (Oxford University Press, 1992)

1992

Winner:  Atlas of United States Environmental Issues (Macmillan, 1990)
Honorable Mention: The Reader's Companion to American History (Houghton Mifflin, 1991)

1991

Winner:  Encyclopedia of the Holocaust (Macmillan, 1989)
Honorable Mention: Art Across America: Two Centuries of Regional Painting, 1710-1920. (Abbeville Press, 1990).

1990

Winner:  Encyclopedia of Southern Culture (The University North Carolina Press, 1989)
Honorable Mention: The Dictionary of the Middle Ages, Joseph Strazer, ed. (Scribners, 1989)

1989

Winner:  We the People: An Atlas of America's Diversity. (Macmillan, 1988)

1988

Winner:  The Encyclopedia of Religion (Macmillan, 1987)

1987

Winner:  The Encyclopedia of the American Constitution (Macmillan, 1986)

1986

Winner:  The International Encyclopedia of Education: Research and Studies (Pergamon Press, 1985)

1985

Winner:  Wilsonline (The H. W. Wilson Company)

1984

Winner:  The Times Atlas of the Oceans (Van Nostrand, 1983)

1983

Awarded to Congressional Information Service, Inc., for "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."

1982

Winner:  New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, Stanley Sadie, ed.

1981

Winner:  Dictionary of Scientific Biography, Charles B. Gillispie, ed.

1980

No Award Given

1979

Winner:  The Encyclopedia of Bioethics, Warren Reich, ed.-in-chief

1978

Winner:  International Encyclopedia of Psychiatry, Psychology, Psychoanalysis and Neurology, Benjamin B. Wolman, ed.-in-chief

1977

Winner:  Atlas of Early American History: The Revolutionary Era, 1760-1790. Lester J. Cappon, ed.

1976

No Award Given

1975

Awarded to the New England Board of Higher Education for establishing NASIC, Northeast Academic Science Information Center, a regional experiment in the brokerage of information services.

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