Shalom, If you have any ideas as to whom to nominate, please use the link from the forwarded email. It would really boost AJL's visibility if a Jewish archivist won this award.
Kol tuv, Jackie ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: 'Teresa Mora' via [email protected] < [email protected]> Date: Wed, Jan 22, 2020 at 8:37 AM Subject: [west_arch] SAA Diversity Award ~ Call for Nominations! To: <[email protected]> Apologies for cross-postings Is there an archives individual, group, or organization that you know deserves recognition for outstanding contributions in advancing diversity within the archives profession? Nominate them for the SAA Diversity Award! Up to two awards may be given each year. Recent awardees have included the Puerto Rico Citizenship Archives Project (2019), the Community Archivist Program at the Austin History Center, Maya from the Margins Archives Project at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (2018); the Texas Disability History Collection at the University of Texas at Arlington Libraries, the Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies at the University of Minnesota Libraries (2017); the SAA Latin American and Cultural Heritage Archives Roundtable webinar series, “Desmantelando Fronteras/Breaking Down Borders” (2016); and The Shorefront Legacy Center AND Samuel Proctor Oral History Program, University of Florida (2015) Please see details below and on the SAA website <https://www2.archivists.org/governance/handbook/section12-diversity>. We look forward to your nominations! Teresa Mora, Cheryl Beredo, Fatemeh Rezaei, and London Stever Diversity Award Subcommittee, SAA Awards Committee ~~~~~ Society of American Archivists Diversity Award Deadline: February 28, 2020 Purpose and Criteria for Selection: Established in 2011 and intended to address SAA’s strategic priority on diversity, this award recognizes an individual, group, or institution for outstanding contributions in advancing diversity within the archives profession, SAA, or the archival record. The nominee should have achieved distinction in the following ways: - Demonstrated outstanding contributions in advancing diversity within the archives profession; - Demonstrated significant achievement in the form of activism, education, outreach, publication, service, or other initiatives in the archives field; - Demonstrated long-term impact on improving and promoting diversity as defined in the SAA Statement on Diversity and Inclusion <https://www2.archivists.org/statements/saa-statement-on-diversity-and-inclusion> . Eligibility: Open to an individual, group, or organization. To encourage SAA member participation, preference may be given to SAA individual and/or institutional members. Nomination Requirements: Two letters of support. Nominations will be accepted from any individual, group, or institution. Submission Deadline and Nomination Form: Click here <https://app.smarterselect.com/programs/45545-Society-Of-American-Archivists> to preview the nomination form and/or to start a nomination. All nominations must be submitted by February 28. -- Teresa Mora Head of Special Collections & Archives University of California, Santa Cruz 831-459-4425 <https://news.ucsc.edu/2017/09/daca-resources-support.html> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups " [email protected]" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/a/lists.berkeley.edu/d/msgid/west_arch/CAP%3DygAhr1pJRK2HfwCB72JZZ0JUAh1a1PUvtGqH8koD1fQ%3DF9g%40mail.gmail.com <https://groups.google.com/a/lists.berkeley.edu/d/msgid/west_arch/CAP%3DygAhr1pJRK2HfwCB72JZZ0JUAh1a1PUvtGqH8koD1fQ%3DF9g%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> . -- Jackie Ben-Efraim *"Although the books had changed, I the reader had not." **Micha Yosef Berdichevsky 1865-1921* Special Collections Librarian Ostrow Library American Jewish University 15600 Mulholland Drive Los Angeles, CA 90077
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