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color:black">2017 SAA Emerging Leader Award – Seeking Nominations!</span></p>
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font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">(<i>Apologies in advance for
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color:black;background:#FFFFCC">cross</span></i><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">-</span></i><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:
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color:black;background:white">.)</span></i></p>
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color:black">Do you know a colleague who is in the early stages of an archives career and who exhibits great leadership skills? Please consider nominating her/him for the
 Emerging Leader Award.  The deadline is February 28, 2017.</span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;
color:black">Awarded for the first time in 2012, the SAA Emerging Leader Award celebrates and encourages early-career archivists who have completed archival work of broad
 merit, demonstrated significant promise of leadership, performed commendable service to the archives profession, or some combination of these. Nominees must have more than two years and less than ten years of professional archives experience at the time of
 nomination. The award is given based on the total experience and contributions of the awardee, including knowledge, leadership, participation, and achievements in the profession.</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;
color:black">Here is a link with more details on the award criteria, eligibility and the application form:</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><a href="http://www2.archivists.org/governance/handbook/section12-emerging-leader" id="LPlnk477758" previewremoved="true"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1155CC">http://www2.archivists.org/governance/handbook/section12-emerging-leader</span></a><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"></span></p>
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