[SOA] Call for nominations: Hamer Kegan Award

[Elise Reynolds]

On behalf of the Philip M. Hamer and Elizabeth Hamer Kegan Award Committee,
I invite you to submit nominations for the 2020 award. Please see the
following announcement for more information.



*Society of American Archivists*

*Philip M. Hamer and Elizabeth Hamer Kegan Award*


Please excuse cross-postings.


The Philip M. Hamer and Elizabeth Hamer Kegan Award Subcommittee of the
Society of American Archivists (SAA) seeks nominations for the 2020 award.



This Philip M. Hamer and Elizabeth Hamer Kegan Award recognizes an
archivist, editor, group of individuals, or institution that has increased
public awareness of a specific body of documents (which can be a specific
archival collection or thematic aggregation) through compilation,
transcription, exhibition, or public presentation of archives or manuscript
materials for educational, instructional, or other public purpose. Work
that has had an impact on a local, regional, national, and/or international
level is welcomed.



Recent winners include:

·  2019:  Dickinson College Archives and Special Collections for Carlisle
Indian School Digital Resource Center

·  2018: Find & Connect, eScholarship Research Centre
<https://www.findandconnect.gov.au/>

·  2017: Center for Home Movies <http://www.centerforhomemovies.org/>

·  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
for Digitizing
Immigrant Letters <https://www.lib.umn.edu/ihrca/dil>


*Eligibility*:

Individual archivists and editors, groups of individuals,
organizations. This award is open to nominees within and outside of the
United States, and is not limited to SAA members.



*Prize:*

A certificate and a cash prize of $500.


*Application Deadline*:

All nominations shall be submitted to SAA by *February 28* of each year.


For more information on this award, including the nomination form, please
go to http://www2.archivists.org/governance/handbook/section12-hamer

For more information on SAA awards and the nominations process, please go
to https://www2.archivists.org/aboutsaa/awardsandscholarships.


Elise Reynolds

Hamer Kegan Award Subcommitte, SAA Awards Committee
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