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Please excuse cross-postings. The Philip M. Hamer and Elizabeth Hamer Kegan Award Subcommittee of the Society of American Archivists (SAA) seeks nominations for the 2018 award. This 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 impact on a local, regional, national, and/or international level is welcomed. Recent winners include: - 2017: Center for Home Movies <http://www.centerforhomemovies.org/> - 2016: South Asian American Digital Archive <http://www.saada.org/> - 2015: The Legacy Center, Drexel University College of Medicine, for Doctor or Doctress? <http://doctordoctress.org/> - 2014: Emma Goldman Papers Project <http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Goldman/> - 2013: Densho, The Japanese American Legacy Project <http://www.densho.org/> - 2012: Immigration History Research Center, University of Minnesota for Digitizing Immigrant Letters <https://www.lib.umn.edu/ihrca/dil> *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* of each year. 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 http://www2.archivists.org/recognition. -- Emily Lapworth Digital Special Collections Librarian UNLV University Libraries 702-895-2276 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Mail submissions to [log in to unmask] For information about joining ARLIS/NA see: http://www.arlisna.org/membership/join-arlisna Send administrative matters (file requests, subscription requests, etc) to [log in to unmask] ARLIS-L Archives and subscription maintenance: http://lsv.arlisna.org Questions may be addressed to list owner (Judy Dyki) at: [log in to unmask] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~