The Leab Awards Exhibition Catalog Awards for Excellence, Winning Catalogs, The First Ten Years: 1986-1995
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Acknowledgements

We are particularly grateful to Katharine Kyes Leab and Daniel J. Leab, whose enthusiasm, encouragement, and financial support make it possible to offer the Katharine Kyes Leab and Daniel J. Leab American Book Prices Current Awards each year for the best library exhibition catalogs in the United States and Canada.

Thanks are owed to past and present members of the Exhibition Awards Committee of the Rare Books and Manuscripts Section of the Association of College and Research Libraries. These dedicated professionals have examined many fine catalogs submitted over the years and devoted much care and thought to selecting the winners.

In particular, we wish to acknowledge those who curated and composed the labels for the traveling exhibition of winning catalogs, mounted in 1995-1996. Those exhibition notes appear alongside the bibliographic citations for and images of the award-winning entries in this web-based exhibition. The authors are identified by initials in parentheses at the end of the notes: (CM) Carrie Marsh; (EC) Ellen Cordes; (ES) Elaine Smyth; (HH) Holly Hall; (SD) Susan Thach Dean; (ST) Stephen Tabor; and (TS) Theresa Salazar.

A generous grant from the Association of College and Research Libraries Initiative Fund makes possible this web-based exhibition of the Leab Award winners. We wish to thank members of the Rare Books and Manuscripts Section Executive Committee, Cathy Henderson, Richard Oram, and Laura Stalker, who offered help and encouragement in shaping the grant proposal and critiqued early drafts of it.

Thanks are due to past chairs Michael Joseph, Diane Shaw and Claudia Funke, to Rutgers University's Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities (CETH) and Scholarly Communications Center (SCC), and to Terry Catapano and Erin Grffiths at CETH who designed the original version of this web site. Thanks also to Committee member John Pull for the redesign of the site, and all Committee members over the past five years for their editorial contributions.

We are also grateful to Steve Lawson, who scanned the catalogs housed at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin, to Richard Oram, HRC Librarian, and to Eric Holzenberg, Librarian and Director of the Grolier Club, for the use of their catalogs.