Press Release
Release Date: Immediate
The Library History Award
Annual Award for the best Essay on Library
History published in the British Isles
2000
The Library History Award is an annual award for the best essay on library
history published in the British Isles. It is organised by the Library
History Group of the Library Association. The Award aims to improve the
quality and increase the quantity of writing on library history in the
British Isles. It is sponsored by the MCB University Press and thanks to
their generosity the award was made for the first time in 1996. It takes the
form of a cash prize of £200.
This year's winner is Dr Christopher Skelton-Foord who is currently Reading
Rooms and Information Services Manager at the British Library Newspaper
Library. He has published articles on library history, the book trade,
newspaper bibliography, and popular fiction. He previously worked in the
School of English at the University of Wales, Cardiff and for Projekt Corvey
at Paderborn University, Germany.
Christopher is sometime Honorary Secretary of The Library Association's
Library History Group, and is editor of the journal, Newspaper Library News.
He also edits the website of The British Library Newspaper Library, which
includes a history of the Newspaper Library at:
www.bl.uk/collections/newspaper/history.html
Christopher's winning entry is 'Surveying the Circulating-Library Scene:
Popular British Fiction, 1770-1830. It was published in Bibliotheken in der
literarischen Darstellung / Libraries in Literature, edited by Peter Vodosek
and Graham Jefcoate (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1999). It is part of the
fruits of his extensive research on the British circulating library and
discusses, inter alia, the portrayal of circulating libraries and their
users in novels of the period.
Further information about the award is available from
Dr John C Crawford,
Chair, Library History Group,
Glasgow Caledonian University Library,
Cowcaddens Road,
Glasgow G4 OBA
Tel : 0141-331-3847
Fax : 0141-331-3005
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