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<span class="normaltextrun"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Dear colleagues,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<span class="normaltextrun"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">The
</span></span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Center for Archival Collections<span class="normaltextrun"> at Bowling Green State University Libraries is seeking submissions for its 2025 Local History Publication Awards. We would really
appreciate it if you could circulate the below announcement via your applicable institutional or professional communications channels and networks, and/or to any authors you may know who have published eligible works during the previous year. Details are below
and also available <a href="https://www.bgsu.edu/library/cac/events-and-programs/local-history-publication-award.html">
on our website</a>. Thank you in advance!</span></span><span class="normaltextrun"><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<span class="normaltextrun"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Call for Submissions: 2025 Local History Publication Awards</span></b></span><span class="eop"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> </span></span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="normaltextrun"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">The Center for Archival Collections is now accepting submissions for the 2025 Local History Publication Awards,
</span></span><span class="normaltextrun"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">awarded to works on northwest Ohio history published during the calendar year 2024<span style="background:white">. Works published between January 1, 2024 and
December 31, 2024 will be accepted.</span></span><span style="color:black;background:white"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The Local History Publication Awards seek to encourage and recognize authors for outstanding publications in the field of Local History. For this award, local history is geographically defined
as the nineteen counties within the Center’s collecting scope (Allen, Crawford, Defiance, Erie, Fulton, Hancock, Hardin, Henry, Huron, Lucas, Ottawa, Paulding, Putnam, Sandusky, Seneca, Van Wert, Williams, Wood and Wyandot), The Firelands, and Maumee Valley
Region.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span class="normaltextrun"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">The deadline for submissions is March 15, 2025</span></b></span><span class="normaltextrun"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">.
For complete information about the awards and eligibility and to submit your work for consideration, please see our </span></span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><a href="https://www.bgsu.edu/library/cac/events-and-programs/local-history-publication-award/guidelines.html">Guidelines
for Submissions</a><span class="normaltextrun"><span style="background:white">. For further information, please contact Nick Pavlik at the CAC at 419-372-7914 or
</span><a href="mailto:npavlik@bgsu.edu">npavlik@bgsu.edu</a></span></span><span class="normaltextrun"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#002060;background:white">.</span></span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="normaltextrun"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Thank you!</span></span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="normaltextrun"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Nick Pavlik</span></span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="normaltextrun"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Coordinator, Local History Publication Awards Committee</span></span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Nicholas A. Pavlik<br>
</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Digital Archivist<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">508 Jerome Library<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Bowling Green State University<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Bowling Green, OH 43403-0170<br>
419-372-7914<br>
</span><span style="color:black"><a href="mailto:npavlik@bgsu.edu"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#0563C1">npavlik@bgsu.edu</span></a></span><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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