Mesa Verde Publishing Wins 2015 Outstanding Business Reference Award

 Mesa Verde Publishing’s The Encyclopedia of the Industrial Revolution in World History Wins RUSA’s 2015 Outstanding Business Reference Award

At the American Library Association’s Midwinter Meeting, which took place in January 2016 in Boston, the Reference & User Service Association (RUSA), a division of the American Library Association, named Mesa Verde Publishing’s The Encyclopedia of the Industrial Revolution in World History, edited by Kenneth E. Hendrickson III, Steven L. Danver, and Justin Corfield (Rowan & Littlefield, 2015), one of only ten reference works to win the 2015 Outstanding Business Reference Source, and was the only historical work to win the award. RUSA award-winning titles are noted for their content, quality, and usefulness to the field.

As the ALA’s journal, Choice, noted in its November 2015 review of The Encyclopedia of the Industrial Revolution in World History, “[t]he work succeeds admirably in augmenting the standard reference works suitable for undergraduate collections that treat the subject…[t]he new set provides students and others unfamiliar with the topic a valuable overview of the people, events, and institutions that forever transformed the modern world.”