[ARSCLIST] Brenda McCallum Prize Announcement

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Brenda McCallum Prize
American Folklore Society Archives and Libraries Section

The Brenda McCallum Prize ? AFS Archives and Libraries Section

Submissions Due: September 15, 2004

Award: $100

The Brenda McCallum Prize committee of the American Folklore Society
Archives and Libraries Section invites nominations for the Brenda McCallum
Prize. The 2004 Prize Committee is composed of Kristi Bell, Andy Kolovos,
and Randy Williams.

Nominations are accepted continuously during the year, though the deadline
for submitting materials each year is September 15. Presentation of the
awards is given during the Archives and Libraries Section meeting at the
Annual meeting of the American Folklore Society in October of that year.

Since 1994, the Brenda McCallum Prize has honored the late folklife
archivist, Brenda McCallum. The award is given for an exceptional work
dealing with folklife archives or the collection, organization, and
management of ethnographic materials. It is awarded to an individual or an
institution for noteworthy products or documented activities that provide
education, techniques, or services to those who collect, organize, and
preserve folklife materials, either on the individual or institutional
level. These may or may not be directly associated with archival work,
since products that facilitate the organization of ethnographic materials
collected in the field ultimately assist the cause of folklife archivists
as well. The prize may be awarded for such accomplishments as a book, an
article, the development of a software package, or a lecture series.

In order to receive the McCallum Prize, the work should have been created
during the twelve months prior to the deadline for its submission, or
twenty-four months if it was not previously nominated. Through this prize,
the AFS Archives and Libraries Section seeks to promote works that further
the cause of the preservation, organization, and dissemination of folklife
collections. Please submit, by letter or email, nominations for the Brenda
McCallum Prize accompanied by a brief explanation of why the work has been
nominated.

Among others, past recipients and their research topics have included:

1994:
    Jeff Place for preservation work done on the Woody Guthrie acetates
which led to the publication of the Guthrie album "Long Ways to Travel: The
Unreleased Folkways Masters, 1944-49." Jeff described the process of
preservation in the liner notes.
     
1995:
    New York Folklore Society for their publication: "Working with Folk
Materials in New York State: A Manual for Folklorists and Archivists." (1994).
     
1998:
    Margaret R. Dittemore and Fred J. Hay for the volume they edited
entitled: Documenting Cultural Diversity in the Resurgent South:
Collectors, Collecting, and Collections. (1997)
     
1999:
    James Corsaro and Karen Taussig-Lux for their manual entitled: Folklore
in Archives: A Guide to Describing Folklore and Folklife Materials." (1998)
     
2001:
    Steve Weiss and the Mss. Dept. at the University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill for their online multi-format collection of materials from the
Goldband Recording Corporation Records at the Southern Folklife Collection at:
    http://docsouth.unc.edu/sfc/goldband/ (2000)
     
2002:
    Michael Owen Jones, and the many students and contributors at UCLA who
edited, expanded, and created an online archive for research into beliefs
and practices relating to folk medicine and alternative health care begun
by Wayland D. Hand in the 1940s. The Online Archive of American Folk
Medicine at UCLA can be found at: http://www.folkmed.ucla.edu/ (2001)
     
2003:

    The Veterans History Project team, led by Peggy Bulger and Ellen
McCulloch-Lovell of the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress
and Timothy Lloyd at The American Folklore Society for their collaborative
effort to collect, preserve and make available audio- and video-taped oral
histories, along with documentary materials, of America's war veterans and
those who served in support of them. The Veterans History Project can be
accessed at: http://www.loc.gov/folklife/vets/. In awarding this prize, we
would like to acknowledge the expert team of archivists and processing
staff at the VHP that are managing this huge collection, the oral history
trainers, and all the volunteers and veterans who are gathering and sharing
stories for this important national project.

    The James Madison Carpenter Collection Catalogue project team, led by
Dr. Julia Bishop of the University of Sheffield, in collaboration with the
University of Aberdeen and Jennifer A. Cutting at the American Folklife
Center, Library of Congress for their effort to make the James Madison
Carpenter Collection available. The final online catalogue can be seen at
http://www.hrionline.ac.uk/carpenter/. In awarding this prize, we would
like to acknowledge Bishop's colleagues David Atkinson, Elaine Bradtke,
Eddie Cass, Thomas A. McKean, and Robert Young Walser, as well as Cutting's
colleagues Marcia K. Segal and Michael Taft.

For inquiries and information about nominations, please contact:

Kristi Bell
(801) 422-6041
kristi_bell@xxxxxxx

Andy Kolovos
(802) 388-4964
akolovos@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Randy Williams
(435) 797-3493
ranwil@xxxxxxxxxx

 

Submit nominations by email or mail to:

Randy Williams
Fife Folklore Archives
Utah State University
3000 Old Main Hill
Logan UT 84322-3032
Fax: (435) 797-2880
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Andy Kolovos
Archivist/Folklorist
Vermont Folklife Center
P.O. Box 442
Middlebury, VT 05753
(802) 388-4964
akolovos@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://www.vermontfolklifecenter.org