The short list is out for the 2007 Besterman/McColvin Medals, with some interesting entries, for example, for the print medal:
Grainger, H
Death Redesigned: British Crematoria
Spire Books 1-90496-507-5
and
Hoare, Peter
Cambridge History of Libraries in Britain
Cambridge University Press 0-521-85808-9
Doctor Who-related reference works make a strong showing, which may say something about information professionals' viewing habits, with two works in the shortlist from Telos Publishing.
Howe, D
Howe's Transcendental Toybox Update No 2
Telos Publishing 1-84583-012-1
and
Lyon, J.S.
Second Flight: Unofficial & Unauthorised Guide to Dr Who 2006
Telos Publishing. 1-84503-008-3
In the electronic class, my money goes on the astonishing Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England, which intends to include all the recorded inhabitants of England from the late sixth to the end of the eleventh
century.
There is no news on the Walford award for contribution to bibliography and the Wheatley medal for the best index is now run solely by the Society of Indexers
For the press release see: CILIP | News: 26 February 2007.
