Call for nominations--Waldo Gifford Leland Award

Call for Nominations
2015 SAA Waldo Gifford Leland Award

Please help us to recognize the best in our profession.  Have you
read a great new book about archives?  Seen an exceptional new
finding aid?  Encountered a new documentary publication that is head
and shoulders above the rest?  Has a new web publication really
stood out to you?

If you have, please consider nominating it for the Society of
American Archivists Waldo Gifford Leland Award.  Nomination forms, a
list of previous winners, and more information are at

    <URL:http://www2.archivists.org/governance/handbook/section12-leland>

The deadline for nominations is February 28, 2015.

The annual Leland Award--a cash prize and certificate--recognizes
"writing of superior excellence and usefulness in the field of
archival history, theory, and practice."

Please note writings that have been published in periodicals are not
eligible.

Established in 1959, this award honors American archival pioneer
Waldo Gifford Leland (1879-1966), president of the Society of
American Archivists in the1940s and one of the driving forces behind
the founding of the National Archives.

Caryn Radick
Leland Award Subcommittee
Digital Archivist
Special Collections and University Archives
Rutgers University Libraries


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