[SOA] SAA's Hamer Kegan Award Subcommittee seeks nominations

[Amy Cooper Cary]

With Apologies for Cross Posting.....

 

The Philip M. Hamer and Elizabeth Hamer Kegan Award Subcommittee of the
Society of American Archivists seeks nominations for the 2006 award.
This award, given annually by SAA, 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 education, instructional, or other public purpose.  More information
about the Award is available at
http://www.archivists.org/governance/handbook/section12-hamer.asp 

 

Nominations should be submitted to the SAA Awards Committee by February
28, 2006. Nominations will be considered only if all materials,
including books and other supporting documentation, are postmarked by
the deadline. To submit a nomination, download a nomination form using
the link on the Award website listed above and return it to SAA at the
following address:

 

Co-chairs, Awards Committee

Society of American Archivists

527 S. Wells St., 5th Floor

Chicago, IL 60607-3922

 

Individual archivists and editors, groups of individuals, and
organizations are all eligible for the award. Recent winners include the
Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation for their website and
online resource featuring information about the Testimony Archive of
Holocaust survivors and other Holocaust witnesses; the Pennsylvania
Historical and Museum Commission for their book Documenting
Pennsylvania's Past: The First Century of the Pennsylvania State
Archives; the New York State Archives Partnership Trust for their
quarterly publication New York Archives; and the Vermont State Archives
for their website "Continuing  Issues of Government and Governance ."  A
list of additional winners is posted on the SAA website. 

 

If you have questions, please feel free to contact the Hamer Kegan
Subcommittee chair, Amy Cooper Cary amyccary at sois.uwm.edu  or the SAA
Awards Committee co-chairs, Philip Mooney pmooney at na.ko.com  or Brenda
Gunn bgunn at mail.utexas.edu for additional information.

 

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Amy Cooper Cary

Archival Studies Program Coordinator

School of Information Studies

University of Wisconsin Milwaukee

5th Floor, Bolton Hall, Room 556

PO Box 413

Milwaukee, WI  53201

Phone:    414-229-6929

E-Mail:    amyccary at sois.uwm.edu 

 

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