Category: Awards

Call for Nominations: American Library Association’s “Best Historical Materials” List

The Historical Materials Committee of the American Library Association/Reference and User Services Association’s History Section is soliciting nominations for the committee’s annual Best Historical Materials list.

The list consists of the best print and online historical bibliographies, indexes, reference products, and published primary sources created, published, or significantly updated within the past two calendar years and primarily in English. The 2023 list will consider titles published or significantly updated in 2022 and 2023.

The committee encourages nominations from librarians, scholars, and students.

Nominations can be submitted for the committee’s consideration at https://forms.gle/ntm9UH8Y5M8pF5LbA .  The deadline for nominations is September 30.

For past winners, please see rusaupdate.org/awards/best-historical-materials/. For questions, please email one of the co-chairs of the Historical Materials Committee, Steve Knowlton (steven.knowlton@princeton.edu) or Jennifer Bartlett (jen.bartlett@uky.edu).

Contact Information
Steve Knowlton

Contact Email
sak2@princeton.edu

URL: https://forms.gle/ntm9UH8Y5M8pF5LbA

ISHMap Call for Proposals: 2024 Prize for Map Projects

Prize for Projects in Map History 2024

The International Society for the History of the Map (ISHMap) is pleased to invite nominations and self-nominations for its Prize for Projects in Map History.  

The ISHMap Prize in for Projects in Map History, awarded every two years and presented at the ISHMap General Assembly, will recognize a project that explores the history of maps and mapping outside of the format of an academic paper, book, or edited collection in a way that increases accessibility and engagement with maps and map history through innovative presentations. The prize will uplift projects that seek to expand the subjects, audience, scope, and/or methodology of engaging with the history of maps and mapping. Projects can take many forms including, but in no way limited to, physical exhibitions, datasets, online exhibitions, multimedia projects such as podcasts and films, thematic maps, games, and digital products.

The prize, to be announced at the Society’s General Meeting during the ICHC in July 2024, will consider projects that debuted or were substantively updated in 2022 and 2023.

Click here  for full prize description, and here for submission form

Deadline for nominations and self-nominations is December 31, 2023.

Call for Nominations: American Library Association’s “Best Historical Materials” List

The Historical Materials Committee of the American Library Association/Reference and User Services Association’s History Section is soliciting nominations for the committee’s annual Best Historical Materials list.

The list consists of the best print and online historical bibliographies, indexes, reference products, and published primary sources created, published, or significantly updated within the past two calendar years and primarily in English. The 2023 list will consider titles published or significantly updated in 2022 and 2023.

The committee encourages nominations from librarians, scholars, and students.

Nominations can be submitted for the committee’s consideration at https://forms.gle/ntm9UH8Y5M8pF5LbA . The deadline for nominations is September 30.

For past winners, please see rusaupdate.org/awards/best-historical-materials/. For questions, please email one of the co-chairs of the Historical Materials Committee, Steve Knowlton (steven.knowlton@princeton.edu) or Jennifer Bartlett (jen.bartlett@uky.edu).

Contact Information
Steve Knowlton, steven.knowlton@princeton.edu

Contact Email
steven.knowlton@princeton.edu
URL
https://forms.gle/ntm9UH8Y5M8pF5LbA

SAA Publishing Award Recipients

Congratulations to James Lowry, recipient of the Waldo Gifford Leland Award; Alston Brake Cobourn, Jen Corrinne Brown, Edward Warga, and Lisa Louis, recipients of the Fellows’ Ernst Posner Award; and Sony Prosper, recipient of the Theodore Calvin Pease Award. 

Call for Submissions: 2023 C. Herbert Finch Online Publication Award

2023 C. Herbert Finch Online Publication Award
The MARAC Finding Aid Awards Committee welcomes submissions for the 2023 C. Herbert Finch Online Publication Award. This award recognizes online publications, including virtual exhibitions, web sites, web pages and other digital tools that promote the use of archival materials.

To be eligible for the award, an online publication must have a stable internet address and must have been published between July 1, 2022 and June 30, 2023. The award is only open to repositories in the MARAC region and all submissions must be received by July 31, 2023.

Submission guidelines and additional information may be found at C. Herbert Finch Award.

Please send your submission packet and direct any questions to Committee Senior Co-Chair, Laura Bell at lbell0101@gmail.com.

Call for Nominations: MARAC Arline Custer Memorial Award

DEADLINE:  July 31, 2023 

The Arline Custer Memorial Award is presented by the MARAC Arline Custer Memorial Award Committee.  This award honors the memory of Arline Custer (1909-1975), MARAC member and editor of the National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections. 

Eligibility 

The Arline Custer Memorial Award recognizes the best books and articles written or compiled by individuals and institutions in the MARAC region – the District of Columbia, Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia and West Virginia. 

Works under consideration include, but are not limited to: monographs, popular narratives, reference works and exhibition catalogs using archival sources. 

Individuals or institutions may submit up to two works published between July 1, 2022 and June 30, 2023. 

Evaluation 

Works must be relevant to the general public as well as the archival community. They also should be original and well researched using available sources. In addition, they should be clearly presented, well written and organized. Visual materials, if used, should be appropriate to the text. 

Compiled works or works with multiple authors-such as edited volumes, co-authored works, or journals-will be reviewed in their entirety. Portions of a multiple-author work that do not meet award requirements may impact the submission’s final scoring. 

Preference will be given to works by archivists. 

Award 

Up to three awards may be given, with a maximum value of $200.00 for books and $100.00 for articles. The 2023 award(s) may be announced at a fall 2023 MARAC business meeting or shared with MARAC members via another means. 

Electronic Submission Instructions  

Electronic submissions are preferred. Please send a PDF of the entirety of the work along with a PDF of a letter of nomination to the Senior Co-Chair of the Arline Custer Memorial Award Committee: 

Tyler Stump 
Archivist 
Pennsylvania State Archives 
Email: tystump@pa.gov   

Physical Submission Instructions  

Please send two physical copies of each submission with a letter of nomination to the Senior Co-Chair of the Arline Custer Memorial Award Committee. Please email the Sr. Co-Chair to request the mailing address. 

Email: tystump@pa.gov  

Entries must be received by July 31, 2023 

For additional information about this award and a list of previous award winners, see the Arline Custer Memorial Award site: http://www.marac.info/arline-custer-memorial-award 

Call for Nominations: SAA Writing Awards

The Society of American Archivists is in search of excellence! The four awards below celebrate outstanding achievement in writing. Be it a finding aid, published work, or student paper, each of these awards highlights the value and importance of superior writing in the profession.

Do you know someone who has published a groundbreaking book, written an outstanding article, or developed an innovative finding aid? Consider nominating them for one of the awards below!

Nominations are due February 28.

Preservation Publication Award
The Preservation Publication Award recognizes the author(s) or editor(s) of an outstanding published work related to archives preservation. The work can be an article, report, chapter, or monograph in an audiovisual, digital, or print format. It must contribute to the advancement of the theory and practice of preservation in archives institutions. Author(s) or editor(s) of a preservation-related work of relevance to the North American archives community and published in the previous calendar year are eligible.

Check out the most recent recipients and consider nominating!

Theodore Calvin Pease Award
The Theodore Calvin Pease Award recognizes superior writing achievement by master’s or doctoral students of archival studies. Entries are judged on innovation, scholarship, pertinence, and clarity of writing. Papers examining major trends and issues in the archives profession are preferred. Entries are submitted by archival educators, and the recipient is published in a forthcoming issue of American Archivist.

Check out the most recent recipients and consider nominating!

Waldo Gifford Leland Award
The Waldo Gifford Leland Award encourages and rewards writing of superior excellence and usefulness in the fields of archival history, theory, or practice. Monographs or documentary publications in print or digital editions published in English during the previous calendar year are eligible.

Check out the most recent recipients and consider nominating!

C.F.W. Coker Award
The C.F.W. Coker Award for Description recognizes finding aids, finding aid systems, projects that involve innovative development in archival description, or descriptive tools that enable archivists to produce effective finding aids. Nominees must set national standards, represent a model for archival description, or otherwise have a substantial impact on descriptive practices. Individuals, institutions, or groups of individuals or institutions are eligible.

Check out the most recent recipients and consider nominating!

Call for Applications: Awards for Excellence in Writing and Publishing

The Society of American Archivists is soliciting recommendations for writing and publishing awards for excellence. There are five awards up for grabs with varying prize amounts. All submissions must have been produced during 2022.

Note that you can apply or be nominated for multiple awards in a single cycle, but may only receive one. The deadline for nominations is February 28, 2023.

Call for Nominations: Mander Jones Award

The Mander Jones Awards Committee is pleased to announce that the call for nominations for the 27th annual Mander Jones Awards – Publications are now open!

These awards recognise excellence in publications relating to archives and recordkeeping. They are named in honour of Phyllis Mander Jones, a founding member of the Archives Section of the Library Association of Australia (later the ASA) and co-editor of the first issue of Archives & Manuscripts. 

Works published in 2022 are eligible for nomination. There are eight award categories open for nomination.

Nominations close Wednesday 5 April 2023.

See the full call for more information.

Call for Nominations: Philip M. Hamer and Elizabeth Hamer Kegan Award

The Philip M. Hamer and Elizabeth Hamer Kegan Award Committee invites nominations for the 2023 award.

The Philip M. Hamer and Elizabeth Hamer Kegan Award recognizes an archivist, editor, group of individuals, or institution that has increased public awareness of a specific body of documents (which can be a specific archival collection or thematic aggregation) through compilation, transcription, exhibition, or public presentation of archives or manuscript materials for educational, instructional, or other public purpose. Work that has had an impact on a local, regional, national, and/or international level is welcomed.

Recent winners include:

  • 2022: San Diego Air and Space Museum
  • 2021: California State University Japanese American Digitization Project
  • 2020: Laura Wagner, Rubenstein Library, Duke University (Radio Haiti)
  • 2019:  Dickinson College Archives and Special Collections for Carlisle Indian School Digital Resource Center

Eligibility:

Individual archivists and editors, groups of individuals, organizations. This award is open to nominees within and outside of the United States, and is not limited to SAA members.

Prize:

A certificate and a cash prize of $500.

Application Deadline:

All nominations shall be submitted to SAA by February 28, 2023. 

For more information on this award, including the nomination form, please go to http://www2.archivists.org/governance/handbook/section12-hamer

For more information on SAA awards and the nominations process, please go to https://www2.archivists.org/aboutsaa/awardsandscholarships.