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17 November 2008

Call for Nominations: 2009 Waldo Gifford Leland Award

Have you read a great new book about archives? Have you come across an exceptional 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 Award.

The annual Leland Award – a cash prize and certificate – encourages and rewards “writing of superior excellence and usefulness in the field of archival history, theory, and practice.” The Leland Award subcommittee of the Society of American Archivists invites you to nominate a monograph, finding aid, or documentary publication published in North America in 2008 for this year’s recognition. (Please note: periodicals are not eligible.) Established in 1959, the award honors American archival pioneer Waldo Gifford Leland, president of the Society of American Archivists in the 1940s and one of the driving forces behind the founding of the National Archives.

Nomination forms, a list of previous winners, and more information is at http://www.archivists.org/governance/handbook/section12-leland.asp. The deadline for applications is February 28, 2009.

Please help us to recognize the best in our profession!

5 March 2008

ADE Constitution Change

Per a vote of the membership, concluded on 22 February 2008, Article 6, Section 2 has been changed to read as follows: "The at-large members shall be elected by the Association's members in the same manner as the officers of the Association. Each at-large member shall serve for a three-year term. At-large members shall be eligible for re-election."

8 February 2008

The Association for Documentary Editing records have been processed and are available at the Special Collections Research Center, Southern Illinois University Carbondale. The inventory for the ADE records may be viewed at:

http://archives.lib.siu.edu/controlcard.php?id=496

Please go through all your old and current files for documents to fill in gaps in the records and to update the records. We welcome materials such as minutes, newsletters, photographs, ADE publications, committee reports, annual meeting ephemera, etc. The online inventory will be revised periodically to reflect the addition of materials.

Please send donations to the following address:
Randy Bixby
Curator of Manuscripts
Special Collections Research Center
Southern Illinois University Carbondale
Carbondale, IL 62901-6632
Randy's email: rbixby@lib.siu.edu

If you have questions, don't hesitate to contact either Randy or Harriet Simon (hfsimon@siu.edu).

4 February 2008

The Society for the History of Technology awarded the Eugene S. Ferguson Prize to The Papers of Joseph Henry at its October 2007 annual meeting. The prize recognizes "outstanding and original reference work that will support future scholarship in the history of technology." The Henry Papers project, based at the Smithsonian Institution and co-sponsored by the American Philosophical Society and the National Academy of Sciences, has reached completion with the publication of volume 11 (January 1866-May 1878) in August 2007 and a cumulative index to the series in February 2008. All volumes in the series are available from Science History Publications/USA, P.O. Box 1240, Sagamore Beach, MA 02562-1240 (www.shpusa.com).