William Mills Polar Book Prize & Award Ceremony

Announcement of the William Mills Polar Book Prize and Invitation to Award Ceremony

H.M. Tory Professor of Anthropology Mark Nuttall's Encyclopedia of the Arctic has won the 2006 William Mills Polar Book Prize.

The prize is awarded biennially to the most important contribution to Arctic or Antarctic literature published in the past two years.

Please join us on Thursday June 22nd, 2006 at 3:30pm MDT in the Professor Emeritus room on the 3rd floor of the Cameron Library, University of Alberta (11320 - 89 Avenue, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada) for the award presentation and light refreshments.

About the Williams Mills Prize

The William Mills Prize is adjudicated by an international committee of Polar Libraries Colloquy members. The Polar Libraries Colloquy is a biennial meeting of librarians and others concerned with the collection, preservation, and dissemination of information dealing with the Arctic and Antarctic regions. The next Polar Libraries Colloquy will be in Edmonton in 2008.

Liz Dennett
Chair of 2006 William Mills Prize Committee
University of Alberta Health Sciences Librarian

Elaine Maloney
Polar Libraries Colloquy Member
Canadian Circumpolar Institute