<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Melissa Salrin</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:salrinmm@whitman.edu">salrinmm@whitman.edu</a>></span><br>Date: Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 1:12 AM<br>Subject: Call for Nominations: 2015 SAA Waldo Gifford Leland Award<br>To: <a href="mailto:jmorehart@tlsohio.edu">jmorehart@tlsohio.edu</a><br><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><p class="MsoNormal"> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b>Call for Nominations: 2015 SAA Waldo Gifford Leland Award <u></u><u></u></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><u></u> <u></u></b></p><p class="MsoNormal">Please help us to recognize the best in our profession!<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Have you read a great new book about archives? Seen an exceptional new finding aid? Encountered a new documentary publication that is head and shoulders above the rest? Has a new web publication really stood out to you?<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">If you have, please consider nominating it for the Society of American Archivists Waldo Gifford Leland Award. Nomination forms, a list of previous winners, and more information are at <a href="http://www2.archivists.org/governance/handbook/section12-leland" target="_blank">http://www2.archivists.org/governance/handbook/section12-leland</a>. The deadline for nominations is February 28, 2015. <u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">The annual Leland Award – a cash prize and certificate – recognizes “writing of superior excellence and usefulness in the field of archival history, theory, and practice.” <u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"> (Please note that periodicals are not eligible.) <u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Established in 1959, this award honors American archival pioneer Waldo Gifford Leland (1879-1966), president of the Society of American Archivists in the 1940s and one of the driving forces behind the founding of the National Archives.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u><br></p></div></div>
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