<html xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns:m="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2004/12/omml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii">
<meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 15 (filtered medium)">
<style><!--
/* Font Definitions */
@font-face
{font-family:Helvetica;
panose-1:2 11 6 4 2 2 2 2 2 4;}
@font-face
{font-family:Wingdings;
panose-1:5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0;}
@font-face
{font-family:"Cambria Math";
panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4;}
@font-face
{font-family:Calibri;
panose-1:2 15 5 2 2 2 4 3 2 4;}
/* Style Definitions */
p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal
{margin:0in;
margin-bottom:.0001pt;
font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;}
a:link, span.MsoHyperlink
{mso-style-priority:99;
color:#0563C1;
text-decoration:underline;}
a:visited, span.MsoHyperlinkFollowed
{mso-style-priority:99;
color:#954F72;
text-decoration:underline;}
span.EmailStyle17
{mso-style-type:personal-compose;
font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;
color:windowtext;}
.MsoChpDefault
{mso-style-type:export-only;
font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;}
@page WordSection1
{size:8.5in 11.0in;
margin:1.0in 1.0in 1.0in 1.0in;}
div.WordSection1
{page:WordSection1;}
/* List Definitions */
@list l0
{mso-list-id:1313678113;
mso-list-type:hybrid;
mso-list-template-ids:-1451615218 67698689 67698691 67698693 67698689 67698691 67698693 67698689 67698691 67698693;}
@list l0:level1
{mso-level-number-format:bullet;
mso-level-text:\F0B7;
mso-level-tab-stop:.5in;
mso-level-number-position:left;
text-indent:-.25in;
font-family:Symbol;}
@list l0:level2
{mso-level-number-format:bullet;
mso-level-text:o;
mso-level-tab-stop:1.0in;
mso-level-number-position:left;
text-indent:-.25in;
font-family:"Courier New";}
@list l0:level3
{mso-level-number-format:bullet;
mso-level-text:\F0A7;
mso-level-tab-stop:1.5in;
mso-level-number-position:left;
text-indent:-.25in;
font-family:Wingdings;}
@list l0:level4
{mso-level-number-format:bullet;
mso-level-text:\F0B7;
mso-level-tab-stop:2.0in;
mso-level-number-position:left;
text-indent:-.25in;
font-family:Symbol;}
@list l0:level5
{mso-level-number-format:bullet;
mso-level-text:o;
mso-level-tab-stop:2.5in;
mso-level-number-position:left;
text-indent:-.25in;
font-family:"Courier New";}
@list l0:level6
{mso-level-number-format:bullet;
mso-level-text:\F0A7;
mso-level-tab-stop:3.0in;
mso-level-number-position:left;
text-indent:-.25in;
font-family:Wingdings;}
@list l0:level7
{mso-level-number-format:bullet;
mso-level-text:\F0B7;
mso-level-tab-stop:3.5in;
mso-level-number-position:left;
text-indent:-.25in;
font-family:Symbol;}
@list l0:level8
{mso-level-number-format:bullet;
mso-level-text:o;
mso-level-tab-stop:4.0in;
mso-level-number-position:left;
text-indent:-.25in;
font-family:"Courier New";}
@list l0:level9
{mso-level-number-format:bullet;
mso-level-text:\F0A7;
mso-level-tab-stop:4.5in;
mso-level-number-position:left;
text-indent:-.25in;
font-family:Wingdings;}
ol
{margin-bottom:0in;}
ul
{margin-bottom:0in;}
--></style><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
<o:shapedefaults v:ext="edit" spidmax="1026" />
</xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
<o:shapelayout v:ext="edit">
<o:idmap v:ext="edit" data="1" />
</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]-->
</head>
<body lang="EN-US" link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72">
<div class="WordSection1">
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Last Call for Nominations: SAA Philip M. Hamer and Elizabeth Hamer Kegan Award (deadline: Feb. 28)<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none">Please excuse cross-postings. <o:p>
</o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none">Do you know any colleagues who have done great work raising awareness of a collection in a really cool way? Please consider nominating them for this award! Self-nominations are acceptable, too.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none">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.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none">Recent winners include:<o:p></o:p></p>
<ul style="margin-top:0in" type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;text-autospace:none">2016: <a href="http://www.saada.org/">
South Asian American Digital Archive</a><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;text-autospace:none">2015: The Legacy Center, Drexel University College of Medicine, for
<a href="http://doctordoctress.org/">Doctor or Doctress?</a><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;text-autospace:none">2014: <a href="http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Goldman/">
Emma Goldman Papers Project</a><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;text-autospace:none">2013: <a href="http://www.densho.org/">
Densho, The Japanese American Legacy Project</a><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;text-autospace:none">2012: <a href="http://www.ihrc.umn.edu/">
Immigration History Research Center, University of Minnesota</a> <o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;text-autospace:none">2011: <a href="http://collections.lib.uwm.edu/cdm/landingpage/collection/march">
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries March On Milwaukee Civil Rights History</a> Project Team<o:p></o:p></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.25in;text-autospace:none"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b>Eligibility</b>:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Individual archivists and editors, groups of individuals, and organizations are eligible.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b>Prize:<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none">A certificate and a cash prize of $500.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><o:p> </o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b>Application Deadline</b>:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none">All nominations shall be submitted to SAA by
<b>February 28</b> of each year. <a href="http://www2.archivists.org/sites/all/files/Hamer-Kegan-Award-Form-093015.docx">
CLICK HERE</a> to download the application form, which includes instructions for submission.
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none">For more information on this award, please go to
<a href="http://www2.archivists.org/governance/handbook/section12-hamer">http://www2.archivists.org/governance/handbook/section12-hamer</a>.
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none">For more information on SAA awards and the nominations process, please go to
<a href="http://www2.archivists.org/recognition">http://www2.archivists.org/recognition</a>.
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Thank you, and please let me know if you have any questions!<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#EAAA00;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;background:white">/</span></b><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#002855;background:white"> Jane
Metters LaBarbara <br>
</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#002855;background:white">Assistant Curator,
<a href="https://wvrhc.lib.wvu.edu/"><span style="color:#0563C1">West Virginia & Regional History Center</span></a><br>
West Virginia University Libraries<br>
(304) 293-0352 office<br>
<a href="mailto:jane.labarbara@mail.wvu.edu"><span style="color:#0563C1">jane.labarbara@mail.wvu.edu</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
</div>
</body>
</html>