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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Please help us to recognize the best in our profession!<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">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?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">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">
http://www2.archivists.org/governance/handbook/section12-leland</a>. The deadline for nominations is February 28, 2016.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">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.”
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">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
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.5pt">Melissa Salrin</span><br>
<span style="font-size:9.5pt">Archivist and Special Collections Librarian</span><br>
<span style="font-size:9.5pt">Whitman College and Northwest Archives</span><br>
<span style="font-size:9.5pt">345 Boyer Ave Walla Walla, WA 99362</span><br>
<a href="mailto:salrinmm@whitman.edu" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:9.5pt">salrinmm@whitman.edu</span></a><br>
<span style="font-size:9.5pt">p (509) 526-4731</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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