Call for nominations--Philip M. Hamer and Elizabeth Hamer Kegan Award

Society of American Archivists
Philip M. Hamer and Elizabeth Hamer Kegan Award

The Philip M. Hamer and Elizabeth Hamer Kegan Award Subcommittee of
the Society of American Archivists seeks nominations for the 2014
award. 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:

    2013
    Densho, The Japanese American Legacy Project

    2012
    Immigration History Research Center, University of Minnesota

    2011
    University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries March On Milwaukee
    Civil Rights History Project Team

    2010
    The Giza Archives Project at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

    2009
    Ward M. Canaday Center for Special Collections of the University
    of Toledo's "From Institution to Independence"

    2008
    Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and the CBC Digital Archives
    (Les Archives de Radio-Canada)

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

Application Deadline: All nominations shall be submitted to the
Awards Committee by February 28, 2014.

For more information on SAA awards and the nominations process,
please

    <URL:http://www.archivists.org/recognition/index.asp>

Jay Gaidmore
Director of Special Collections
Earl Gregg Swem Library
The College of William and Mary
757-221-1775


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