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<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><B><FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE=1 FACE="Arial">Have you read that great new book about Archives?</FONT></B></SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><B><FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE=1 FACE="Arial">If you have, why don’t you consider nominating it for the Waldo Gifford Leland Award?</FONT></B></SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><B><FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE=1 FACE="Arial">The Leland Award subcommittee of the Society of American Archivists invites you to nominate a monograph, finding aid, or documentary publication (periodicals are not eligible) published in North America in 2006 for the Waldo Gifford Leland Award. Works that exhibit “writing of superior excellence and usefulness in the field of archival history, theory, and practice” are eligible.</FONT></B></SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><B><FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE=1 FACE="Arial">Established in 1959, the award honors American archival pioneer Waldo Gifford Leland, president of the Society of American Archivists in the 1940s and one of the driving forces behind the founding of the National Archives.</FONT></B></SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><B><FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE=1 FACE="Arial">Nomination forms can be downloaded from:</FONT></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> </SPAN><A HREF="http://www.archivists.org/recognition/awards_form.pdf"><SPAN LANG="en-us"><B><U></U></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><B><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=1 FACE="Arial">http://www.archivists.org/recognition/awards_form.pdf</FONT></U></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></A><SPAN LANG="en-us"><B></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><B><FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE=1 FACE="Arial">. </FONT></B></SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><B><FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE=1 FACE="Arial">The deadline for applications is February 28, 2007.</FONT></B></SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><B><FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE=1 FACE="Arial">A full description of the Leland Award is available at:</FONT></B></SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><A HREF="http://www.archivists.org/recognition/awards.asp#leland"><SPAN LANG="en-us"><B><U></U></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><B><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=1 FACE="Arial">http://www.archivists.org/recognition/awards.asp#leland</FONT></U></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></A><SPAN LANG="en-us"><B></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><B></B></SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><B><FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE=1 FACE="Arial">Please help us to recognize the best in our profession</FONT></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
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