[SOA] Last Call for Nominations: Hamer-Kegan Award

[Jane LaBarbara via OHIOARCHIVISTS]

Last Call for Nominations: SAA Philip M. Hamer and Elizabeth Hamer Kegan Award (deadline: Feb. 28)

Please excuse cross-postings.

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.

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.

Recent winners include:

  *   2016: South Asian American Digital Archive<http://www.saada.org/>
  *   2015: The Legacy Center, Drexel University College of Medicine, for Doctor or Doctress?<http://doctordoctress.org/>
  *   2014: Emma Goldman Papers Project<http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Goldman/>
  *   2013: Densho, The Japanese American Legacy Project<http://www.densho.org/>
  *   2012: Immigration History Research Center, University of Minnesota<http://www.ihrc.umn.edu/>
  *   2011: University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries March On Milwaukee Civil Rights History<http://collections.lib.uwm.edu/cdm/landingpage/collection/march> Project Team

Eligibility:
Individual archivists and editors, groups of individuals, and organizations are eligible.

Prize:
A certificate and a cash prize of $500.

Application Deadline:
All nominations shall be submitted to SAA by February 28 of each year.  CLICK HERE<http://www2.archivists.org/sites/all/files/Hamer-Kegan-Award-Form-093015.docx> to download the application form, which includes instructions for submission.

For more information on this award, please go to http://www2.archivists.org/governance/handbook/section12-hamer.
For more information on SAA awards and the nominations process, please go to http://www2.archivists.org/recognition.

Thank you, and please let me know if you have any questions!


/ Jane Metters LaBarbara
Assistant Curator, West Virginia & Regional History Center<https://wvrhc.lib.wvu.edu/>
West Virginia University Libraries
(304) 293-0352 office
jane.labarbara at mail.wvu.edu<mailto:jane.labarbara at mail.wvu.edu>

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