Awards
Archives and Records Management and Other Scholarly Awards
Archives & Records Management
- Arline Custer Memorial Award (MARAC)
- Awards prizes honoring publishing achievements
- Colonial Dames Scholarship (SAA)
- Award enables two archivists each year to attend NARA's Modern Archives Institute.
- 1998 - Ida B. Jones, National Museum of American History
- 1998 - Sr. Rosemary Meiman, OSU, Ursuline Provincialite
- 2000 - Christine Moreland-Bruhnke, Online Archives of New Mexico
- 2000 - G. Marie Rogers, Kentucky State Archives
- 2002 - Ian Graham, special collections and archives assistant at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine; Valerie J. Frey, manuscripts archivist at the Georgia Historical Society in Savannah; and Charity Anne Galbreath, processing archivist at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Mass.
- 2003 - Sister Frances M. Gimber,RSCJ, the Society of the Sacred Heart Provincial Archives in St. Louis; Eli Naeher, archives assistant at the Lower Cape Fear Historical Society in Wilmington, N.C.
- 2004 - Shugana Campbell, reference archivist at the Amistad Research Center, Tulane University, New Orleans; Ann T. Boltin, assistant archivist at the Catholic Diocese of Baton Rouge Archives; and Luciana M. Spracher, principal historical researcher for Bricks & Bones Historical Research.
- Distinguished Service Award (SAA)
- Recognizes any archival institution providing outstanding service to the archival community in North America
- Fellows of the Society of American Archivists
- The highest honor bestowed on individuals by the SAA, awarded for outstanding contributions to the archival profession.
The 2002 Fellows are:- Elizabeth Adkins
- Thomas Frusciano
- Mark Greene
- Philip Bantin
- Ian E. Wilson
- Sara S. Hodson
- Gregory S. Hunter
- Karen Jefferson
- Alden Monroe
- Daniel Pitti
- Finding Aids Award (MARAC)
- Recognizes outstanding achievement in the preparation of finding aids Fredric M. Miller Finding Aid Award (MARAC):
- 1998 Award winners shelved in ALIC
- 1997 Award winners shelved in ALIC
- MARAC list of earlier award winners
- Harold T. Pinkett Minority Student Award (SAA)
- Recognizes minority undergraduate and graduate students, such as those of African, Asian, Hispanic, or Native American descent, who through scholastic and personal achievement manifest an interest in becoming professional archivists and active members of SAA.
- 2002 - Petrina D. Jackson of the School of Information Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh
- 2003 - Michelle Baildon of Simmons College
- 2004 - Josué Hurtado of the University of Michigan
- J. Franklin Jameson Award (SAA)
- This prestigious honor is an award for archival advocacy.
- Lane Award
- (SAA, see Sister M. Claude Lane, O.P. Memorial Award)
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Award (SAA)
- Award enabling foreign archivists already in the U.S. to travel or attend the SAA annual meeting
- 1998 - Ntomobizandile Kwatsha from South Africa
- 1999 - Ciaran Trace from Ireland
- 2000 - Professor Zhou Xiaomu from Renmin University in Beijing, China
- 2001 - Eun G. Park from Korea
- 2002 - Not awarded
- 2003 - Ji-Hyun Kim from Korea
- 2004 - Bart Ballaux from Belgium
- Philip M. Hamer and Elizabeth Hamer Kegan Award (SAA)
- Recognizes an archivist, editor, group or institution that has increased public awareness of a specific body of documents through compilation exhibition of public presentation of archives or manuscript materaisl for eductional, instructional, or other public purposes.
- 1998 - Linda A. Ries for guest-editing "History of Pennsylvania," a special issue of Pennsylvania History: a Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies
- 2000 - Jeffery D. Marshall for editing "A War of the People: Vermont Civil War Letters"
- 2002 - Vermont State Archives for increasing public awareness about a specific body of documents.
- 2003 - New York State Archives Partnership Trust in recognition of its quarterly publication, New York Archives.
- 2004 - Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission in recognition of its publication, Documenting Pennsylvania's Past: The First Century of the Pennsylvania State Archives.
- Posner Award (SAA)
- The Fellows' Posner Award recognizes the outstanding essay dealing with some archival facet published in the American Archivist.
- 1998 - Carolyn and Tyler O. Walters for their research as presented in the article, "Contemporary archival appraisal methods and preservation decision-making," published in the Summer 1996 issue of the American Archivist
- 2000 - Peter J. Wosh for his review essay, "Going Postal" published in the Vol. 61 issue of the American Archivist
- 2002 - Terry Cook for his article, "'The Imperative of Challenging Absolutes' in Graduate Archival Education Programs: Issues for Educators and the Profession," published in volume 63 of the American Archivist.
- 2003 - William G. Rosenberg for his article, "Politics in the (Russian) Archives: The Objectivity Question, Trust and the Limitation of Law," published in volume 64 of the American Archivist.
- 2004 - James M. O'Toole for his essay, "Democracy-and Documents-in America," published in volume 65 of the American Archivist and George Bolotenko for his article, "Frost on the Walls in Winter: Russian and Ukrainian Archives Since the Great Dislocation (1991-1999)" published in volume 66 of the American Archivist.
- Preservation Publication Award
- The Preservation Publication Award recognizes the author or editor of an outstanding work, published in North America, that advances the theory or practice of preservation in archival institutions
- 2002 - Robert E. Schnare, Jr. JR. for his publication, Bibliography of Preservation Literature, 1983-1996 (Scarecrow Press, Inc., 2001).
- 2003 - Not awarded
- 2004 - Anne R. Kenney and Nancy Y. McGovern for their Web-based tutorial, Digital Preservation Management: Implementing Short-term Strategies for Long-term Problems
- Sister M. Claude Lane Award (SAA)
- The Lane Award is given each year to a archivists who has an outstanding record of involvement and contribution to religious archives
- Theodore Calvin Pease Award
- Established in 1987, the award is named for the first editor of SAA's semi-annual journal, American Archivist, and recognizes superior writing achievement by a student enrolled in archival administration classes or engaged in formal archival internship programs.
- 2002 - Reto Tschan of the University of British Columbia for his student paper, "A Comparison of Jenkinson and Schellenberg on Appraisal."
- 2003 - Glenn Dingwall of the University of British Columbia for his student paper, "Trusting Archivists: The Role of Archival Ethics Codes in Establishing Public Faith."
- 2004 - Catherine O'Sullivan of New York University for her student paper, "Diaries, Online Diaries, and the Future Loss to Archives; or Blogs and the Blogging Bloggers Who Blog Them."
- Waldo Gifford Leland Award (SAA)
- Recognizes outstanding publications
- 1998 - The Records of American Business, published by the Society of American Archivists
- 2000- Authentic Electronic Records: Strategies for Long-Term Access, published by Cohasset Associates, Inc.
- 2000- Special Commendation- Archives of Russia: A Directory and Bibliographic Guide to Holdings in Moscow and St. Petersburg published by Patricia Kennedy Grimsted of the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute
- 2002 - Richard J. Cox for his provocative monograph, Managing Records for Evidence and Information (Quorum Books, 2001)
- 2003 - Joan Echtenkamp Klein of the University of Virginia Health System for the Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection Web site.
- 2004 - Gregory S. Hunter for Developing and Maintaining Practical Archives: A How-To-Do-It Manual 2nd edition (Neal-Schuman Publishers, Inc.).
- Nobel e-Museum
- The official website of the Nobel Foundation. The site offers detailed information about the prize and the prize winners.
- Prize - winning Books Online
- Online fulltext books that have won major literary prizes, including the Newbery Award, the Nobel Prize, and the Pulitzer Prize
