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Brenda McCallum Prize
Archives and Libraries Section
The Brenda McCallum Prize * AFS Archives and Libraries Section
Submissions Due: September 15, 2007
Award: $100
The Brenda McCallum Prize committee of the American Folklore Society
Archives and Libraries Section invites nominations for the 2007 Brenda
McCallum Prize.
The 2007 Prize Committee is composed of Marcia Segal, Kristi Young, and
Stephanie Smith.
Nominations are accepted continuously during the year, though the
deadline for submitting materials each year is September 15.
Presentation of the awards is given during the Archives and Libraries
Section meeting at the Annual meeting of the American Folklore Society
in October of that year.
Since 1994, this prize has honored the late folklife archivist Brenda
McCallum. Through this prize, the AFS Archives and Libraries Section
seeks to promote works that further the cause of the preservation,
organization, and dissemination of folklife collections. The prize is
given for an exceptional work dealing with folklife archives or the
collection, organization, and management of ethnographic materials. It
is awarded to an individual or an institution for noteworthy products or
documented activities that provide education, techniques, or services to
those who collect, organize, and preserve folklife materials, either on
the individual or institutional level. These may or may not be directly
associated with archival work, since products that facilitate the
organization of ethnographic materials collected in the field ultimately
assist the cause of folklife archivists as well. The prize may be
awarded for such accomplishments as a book, an article, the development
of a software package, or a lecture series.
In order to receive the McCallum Prize, the work should have been
created during the twelve months prior to the deadline for its
submission, or twenty-four months if it was not previously nominated.
Please submit nominations for the Prize by e-mail or fax, accompanied
by a brief explanation of why the work has been nominated.
Past recipients and their research topics have included:1994:Jeff Place
of the Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage of the Smithsonian
Inssitution, for preservation work done on the Woody Guthrie acetates
which led to the publication of the Guthrie album Long Ways to Travel:
The Unreleased Folkways Masters, 1944-49. Jeff described the process of
preservation in the liner notes.
1995:The New York Folklore Society, for its publication Working with
Folk Materials in New York State: A Manual for Folklorists and
Archivists (1994).
1996:Stephanie A. Hall for her publication: "Ethnographic Collections
in the Archive of Folk Culture: A Contributor's Guide."
1997:Margaret R. Dittemore and Fred J. Hay, for the volume they
edited, Documenting Cultural Diversity in the Resurgent South:
Collectors, Collecting, and Collections. (1997)
1999:James Corsaro and Karen Taussig-Lux, for their manual Folklore in
Archives: A Guide to Describing Folklore and Folklife Materials. (1998)
2001:Steve Weiss and the Manuscripts Department of the University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill, for their online multi-format collection
of materials from the Goldband Recording Corporation Records at the
Southern Folklife Collection. (2000)
2002:Michael Owen Jones and the many students and contributors at UCLA
who edited, expanded, and created the Online Archive of American Folk
Medicine, for research into beliefs and practices relating to folk
medicine and alternative health care, begun by Wayland D. Hand in the
1940s. (2001)
2003: The Veterans History Project team, led by Peggy Bulger and Ellen
McCulloch-Lovell of the American Folklife Center at the Library of
Congress and Timothy Lloyd at The American Folklore Society, for their
collaborative effort to collect, preserve and make available audio- and
video-taped oral histories, along with documentary materials, of
America's war veterans and those who served in support of them. In
awarding this prize, we would like to acknowledge the expert team of
archivists and processing staff at the VHP that are managing this huge
collection, the oral history trainers, and all the volunteers and
veterans who are gathering and sharing stories for this important
national project.
The James Madison Carpenter Collection Online Catalogue project team,
led by Dr. Julia Bishop of the University of Sheffield, in collaboration
with the University of Aberdeen and Jennifer A. Cutting at the American
Folklife Center, Library of Congress for their effort to make the James
Madison Carpenter Collection available. In awarding this prize, we would
like to acknowledge Bishop's colleagues David Atkinson, Elaine Bradtke,
Eddie Cass, Thomas A. McKean, and Robert Young Walser, as well as
Cutting's colleagues Marcia K. Segal and Michael Taft.2005:The Florida
Folklife Digitization and Education Project of the Florida State
Archives for their online web presentation of folklife collections in
the archive.
2006:No prize was awarded in 2006.
For information about the 2007 Brenda McCallum Prize or to submit
nominations, please contact, by e-mail or fax:
Marcia Segal
American Folklife Center
The Library of Congress
202/707-2076 fax
To join this American Folklore Society interest-group section, please
visit the AFS membership page of the American Folklore Society web site,
where you will find both a secure online and a printable, mailable
membership form. You need not be a member of the American Folklore
Society to join.
Posted by
Stephanie A. Hall
Librarian- Automated Reference
American Folklife Center
The Library of Congress
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