California Preservation Program receives 2011 Cunha-Swartzburg Award

We are delighted to announce that the California Preservation
Program (CPP) is the winner of the George Cunha and Susan Swartzburg
Award for Collaborative Preservation.    The CPP was selected out of
a pool of several worthy nominees. What began as a collaboration
among  a few preservation librarians in the University of California
system has expanded into a strong network of individuals and small,
medium and large libraries, museums, archives, historical societies,
records repositories and other cultural organizations all around the
state.  The CPP works together to enhance disaster preparedness
services, develop collection assessment tools, provide digital
preservation education, create a statewide audiovisual preservation
program, and integrate services with regional and national
preservation programs.

As one of the nominators of the award wrote, "the California
Preservation Program has defined collaborative statewide
preservation in this decade."  The Award Committee agrees and is
delighted to select them as the winners of  the 2011 LBI George
Cunha and Susan Swartzburg Award.

The Award includes a $1250 award donated by the Library Binding
Institute and a citation and will be presented at the ALCTS Awards
Ceremony at the ALA Annual Conference in June.  Stay tuned for an
official announcement and press release in February.

On behalf of the Cunha-Swartzburg Award Committee:

Haiyun Cao
Andy Hart
Kara McClurken
Karen Mokrzycki
Jennifer Hain Teper


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