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Modern Language Association Prize for a Distinguished BibliographyCompetition in 2008 for Books Published in 2006 or 2007Open to Members and Nonmembers of the AssociationThe Committee on Honors and Awards of the Modern Language Association invites submissions for the sixth MLA Prize for a Distinguished Bibliography. The award was established in 1998 and is presented each even-numbered year. For the current award, the committee solicits submissions of enumerative and descriptive bibliographies published in serial, monographic, book, or electronic format in 2006 or 2007. A multivolume bibliography is eligible if at least one volume was published during that period. The prize will be given without regard to the language of the compiler or of the text presented in the bibliography, as long as it falls within the subject scope of the MLA (e.g., modern languages and literatures, composition theory, folklore, linguistics). Editors or compilers need not be members of the MLA. Criteria for determining excellence include evidence of analytical rigor, meticulous scholarship, intellectual creativity, and subject range and depth. To qualify for the award a bibliography should employ editorial principles appropriate to its materials, and those principles should be clearly articulated in the compilation; the bibliography should provide appropriate contextual information; the bibliography should exhibit the highest standards of accuracy in the presentation of its entries; and the text should be presented as accessibly and elegantly as possible. The prize, which consists of $1,000 and a certificate, will be presented to the winning bibliographer(s) at the association's annual convention in December 2008. To enter a bibliography in the competition, authors or publishers should send four copies and a letter identifying the work to the MLA Prize for a Distinguished Bibliography, 26 Broadway, 3rd floor, New York, NY 10004-1789. Submissions will be accepted until 1 May 2008. Publishers may enter more than one title, but no work may be entered in more than one MLA competition. A multivolume bibliography that has already competed for this award may compete again if a new volume was published during the later award period. For further information, call or write the Office of Special Projects, Modern Language Association (646 576-5141; awards@mla.org). Past winners of this prize
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