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The Melva J. Dwyer Award

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 June 2016

Kathy E. Zimon
Kathy E. Zimon*
Affiliation:
Department of Art, University of Calgary, 2500 University Drive NW, Calgary, Alberta AB T2N 1N4, Canada
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Email: zimon@ucalgary.ca
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Abstract

The Melva J. Dwyer Award was established in honour of Melva Dwyer, a founding member of CARLIS, upon her retirement after 31 years of distinguished service on behalf of Canadian art librarianship and as Fine Arts Librarian at the University of British Columbia. The award is presented to the best Canadian art reference work, broadly interpreted, produced by a Canadian author. Unlike other awards, the Dwyer Award is a limited edition print by Calgary artist Susan Ford that incorporates both the concept and title of the prize. Eight awards have been presented so far, in addition to the first of the ten prints which was presented to Melva Dwyer in 1987.

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Research Article
Information
Art Libraries Journal , Volume 24 , Issue 3 , 1999 , pp. 9 - 11
Copyright
Copyright © The Art Libraries Society 1999

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References

1. Dwyer, Melva J. ‘New CASLIS Chairperson addresses membership’. Feliciter September 1976, p.4.Google Scholar
2. ‘Canadian Art Libraries Section: proposed by-laws final draft, June 1981’. CARLIS Newsletter vol.6 no.2 March 1982, p.5–9.Google Scholar
3. Anthony, Peter. ‘Melva Dwyer: in appreciation’. CARLIS Newsletter vol.4 no.3 September 1979, p.3.Google Scholar
4. Ken Chamberlain, Daphne Dufresne and Zimon, Kathy served on the first committee.Google Scholar
5. Art Libraries Committee Newsletter vol.2 no. 3 June 1976, p.10. Susan Ford is also included in Bente Roed Cochran’s Printmaking in Alberta, University of Alberta Press, 1989. In fact, the black and white reproduction on p.71 of the print Tea time in July, 1980, is very similar in style and subject to the Dwyer Award print.Google Scholar