From: "Seymour, Janet I - WHS" <Janet.Seymour@wisconsinhistory.org> Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2009 12:18:52 -0600 Subject: List Serve - FW: SAA Leland Award for Archival Writing Message-ID: <488E289A5C909049B0E55F6B651B5B35F90D47BB88@MEWMAD0PC01G02.accounts.wistate.us>
List Serve Members,
Below is information about how you can nominate a book, finding aid, or oth
er materials for an award - the Leland Award, a subcommittee of the Society
of American Archivists
Janet Seymour
Field Services Representative - Northern Region
Wisconsin Historical Society
Collecting, Preserving, and Sharing Stories Since 1846
Review past messages at: http://listserve.uwec.edu/localhistory/
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Call for Nominations: 2009 Waldo Gifford Leland Award
Have you read a great new book about archives? Have you come across an exce
ptional finding aid for a newly-processed archival or manuscript collection
? Have you encountered a documentary publication that is head and shoulders
above the rest? Has a web publication really stood out to you?
If you have, please consider nominating it for the Waldo Gifford Leland Awa
rd.
The annual Leland Award – a cash prize and certificate – encourages and
rewards “writing of superior excellence and usefulness in the field of a
rchival history, theory, and practice.” The Leland Award subcommittee of
the Society of American Archivists invites you to nominate a monograph, fi
nding aid, or documentary publication published in North America in 2008 fo
r this year’s recognition. (Please note: periodicals are not eligible.)
Established in 1959, the award honors American archival pioneer Waldo Giff
ord Leland, president of the Society of American Archivists in the 1940s an
d one of the driving forces behind the founding of the National Archives.
Nomination forms, a list of previous winners, and more information is at ht
tp://www.archivists.org/governance/handbook/section12-leland.asp. The deadl
ine for applications is February 28, 2009.
Please help us to recognize the best in our profession!