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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The </span><span style="color: rgb(70, 120, 134);"><u><a style="color: rgb(70, 120, 134);" class="OWAAutoLink" id="OWA01590edb-9f92-aa2a-b2cd-61cd918b82f1" target="_blank" href="https://www.bgsu.edu/library/cac.html">Center
for Archival Collections</a></u></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> at Bowling Green State University Libraries is seeking submissions for its 2026 Local History Publication Awards. We would appreciate it if you could circulate the below announcement
via your applicable institutional or professional communications channels, and/or to any authors you may know who have published eligible works during the previous year. Details are below and also available
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Thank you in advance!</span></div>
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<b>Call for Submissions: 2026 Local History Publication Awards</b> </div>
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The Center for Archival Collections is now accepting submissions for the 2026 Local History Publication Awards, awarded to works on northwest Ohio history published during the calendar year 2025. Works published between January 1, 2025 and December 31, 2025
will be accepted.</div>
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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 Ohio 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.</div>
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><b>The deadline for submissions is March 15, 2026</b>. For complete information about the awards and eligibility, and to submit your work for consideration, please see our
</span><span style="color: rgb(70, 120, 134);"><u><a style="color: rgb(70, 120, 134);" class="OWAAutoLink" id="OWA7df058b0-0f21-109c-284c-eb017cab678c" href="https://www.bgsu.edu/library/cac/events-and-programs/local-history-publication-award/guidelines.html">Guidelines
for Submissions</a></u></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">. For further information, please contact William Niner at the CAC at 419-372-4733 or
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Thank you!</div>
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William Niner<br>
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Center for Archival Collections<br>
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