Seeking Nominations for Archival Advocacy Award

The J. Franklin Jameson Archival Advocacy Award Subcommittee of the Society of American Archivists seeks nominations for the 2013 award.

http://www2.archivists.org/governance/handbook/section12-jameson

 

Established in 1989, this award honors an individual, institution, or organization that promotes greater public awareness, appreciation, or support of archival activities or programs.  The individual's or institution's contributions may take the form of advocacy, publicity, legislation, financial support, or a similar action that fosters archival work or raises public consciousness of the importance of archival work.  Contributions should have broad, long-term impact at the regional level or beyond. Up to three awards may be given each year.

Recent Winners:

• 2012:  Eve Kahn, Bebe Miller, Phillip Stewart
• 2011:  "Who Do You Think You Are?" (NBC)
• 2010:  The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation
• 2009:  Ross King (Georgia Historical Records Advisory Board)
• 2008:  Data-Intensive Cyber Environments (DICE)

Eligibility: Nominees must be from outside the archives profession.  Individuals directly involved in archival work, either as paid or volunteer staff, or institutions or organizations directly responsible for an archival program are not eligible for this award.

Mailed materials must be postmarked by February 28, 2013 and should be sent to:

J. Franklin Jameson Archival Advocacy Award Committee Society of American Archivists

17 North State Street, Suite 1425

Chicago, IL 60602-4061 

Nominations may be submitted electronically; please see the nomination form for details.  For more information on SAA awards and the nominations process, please go to: http://www.archivists.org/recognition/index.asp>

Philip M. Hamer and Elizabeth Hamer Kegan Award

The Philip M. Hamer and Elizabeth Hamer Kegan Award Subcommittee of the Socity of American Archivists seeks nominations for the 2013 award.

 

This award recognizes an archivist, editor, group of individuals, or institution that has increased public awareness of a specific body of documents through compilation, transcription, exhibition, or public presentation of archives or manuscript materials for educational, instructional, or other public purpose. Archives may include photographs, films, and visual archives. Publication may be in hard copy, microfilm, digital, or other circulating medium.

 

Recent winners include:

• 2012: Immigration History Research Center, University of Minnesota
• 2011: University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries March On Milwaukee Civil Rights History Project Team
• 2010: The Giza Archives Project at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
• 2009: Ward M. Canaday Center for Special Collections of the University of Toledo’s “From Institution to Independence”
• 2008: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and the CBC Digital Archives (Les Archives de Radio-Canada)

Eligibility:

Individual archivists and editors, groups of individuals, organizations.

 

Application Deadline:

All nominations shall be submitted to the Awards Committee by February 28, 2013.

For more information on SAA awards and the nominations process, please go to http://www.archivists.org/recognition/index.asp .

ABC-CLIO Online History Award

The deadline is fast approaching (December 15) for nominations for the ABC-CLIO Online History Award. It consists of $2,500 donated by ABC-CLIO, a publisher of reference materials in the field of history, and a citation. The award recognizes the accomplishments of a person or a group of people producing (1) a freely available online historical collection, or (2) an online tool tailored for the purpose of finding historical materials, or (3) an online teaching aid stimulating creative historical scholarship. 

The award seeks to encourage the development of freely available, sustainable online history resources by singling out innovative projects and the individuals who created them. Projects shall have been completed (or, in the case of a regularly updated database, well established) in the two years prior to nomination and serve as a model for broader emulation. Examples can include:

•    Primary sources digitized from the collections of more than one repository

•    Guides to research on an historical subject that span multiple formats and repositories

•    Databases incorporating citations, annotations, text, multimedia, and/or hyperlinks

•    Presentations of an historical theme stimulating new approaches to its teaching

Some past recipients are:

• 2011. Stephen Robertson, Shane White, Stephen Garton and Graham White, University of Sydney, Australia for Digital Harlem: Everyday Life, 1915-1930.
• 2009. Ken Middleton, Middle Tennessee State University, for Discovering American Women's History Online.
• 2007. Faith Jones, head of Literature and Language Collection, Mid-Manhattan Library, the New York Public Library, for The Yizkor Books Project
• 2005. Oregon Historical Society for the Oregon History Project

 

For more information, please visit the Reference and User Services (RUSA) webpage for the award. <http://www.ala.org/rusa/awards/abcclio>.  The short nomination form is at http://www.ala.org/rusa/sites/ala.org.rusa/files/content/awards/abcclio/abcclio.pdf>.