6:00 - 7:00 SAA Awards Ceremony

Hilton Washington, Room 3122, Washington, DC

I don't often attend awards ceremonies at SAA, but I attended this time because a friend of mine was receiving an award, and it's also good to know who the association is honoring. Rather than say anything about the ceremony, I'll simply list the awards in order of their announcement:

Unlisted Awards

Richard Cox was mentioned for some award, but I didn't catch what it was

Kathleen Roe
CoSA award recognizing her outstanding service in terms of advocacy

Gregor Trinkaus-Randall
CoSA award recognizing his outstanding service with disaster work

The Society of Southwest Archivists and the Emergency Disaster Assistance Review Committee
CoSA award recognizing their work on disaster assistance in the wake of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita

GladysAnn Wells
SAA Presidential Commendation

Frank Louan
SAA Presidential Commendation


Listed Awards

Donald Peterson Student Scholarship
Jessica Lemieux, San Jose State University

C.F.W. Coker Award
The Walt Whitman Archive Integrated Team for designing this innovative multi-institutional finding aid to the manuscripts and publications of Walt Whitman at twenty institutions.

Colonial Dames Scholarships to the Modern Archives Institute
Francesca Livermore and Terry Jackson (not in attendance)

Donna Cutts Scholarship to the Modern Archives Institute
Gloria Stonge (not in attendance)

Distinguished Service Award
Modern Archives Institute, National Archives and Records Administration

Philip M. Hamer - Elizabeth Hamer Kegan Award
State Library and Archives of Florida for the Florida Folklife Digitization and Education Project
Jody Norman and Gerard Clark accepting

J. Franklin Jameson Archival Advocacy Award
Senator Harry Reid (D-Nevada) for being a "passionate backer of the NHPRC," among other cultural institutions
Robert Herbert accepting

Waldo Gifford Leland Award
Mary Jo Pugh, Providing Reference Services for Archives and Manuscripts

Theodore Calvin Pease Award
Ben Blake, University of Pittsburgh, "A Call for a New American Labor Archives: History, Theory, Methodology, and Practice," which was a critical assessment of the evolution of labor archives and which calls for forging closer relations with labor unions, especially through the provision of records and knowledge management services

Harold T. Pinkett Minority Student Award
Shawn Philip San Roman, University of Wisconsin--Madison
Lanell James, University of Michigan

Fellows' Ernst Posner Award
Timothy L. Ericson, "Building Our Own Iron Curtain: The Emergence of Secrecy in American Government," American Archivist (68:1)
(not in attendance)

Preservation Publication Award
Data Dictionary for Preservation Metadata: Final Report of the PREMIS Working Group
Biran Lavoie accepting

Spotlight Award
Emilie Leumas, Catholic Diocese of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, for quietly, creatively, and selflessly leading the recoversy of the diocese after Hurricane Katrina

Council Exemplary Service Award
Robert Schmidt, Archives and Archivists List Coordinator, 1998-2006


The following fellows of the Society of American Archivists were inducted today--a larger than usual list:

Margaret (Peggy) O'Neill Adams (Lee Stout presenting)
National Archives and Records Administration

Thomas J. Connors (Steve Hensen presenting)
University of Maryland

Philip B. Eppard (Rand Jimerson presenting)
University at Albany, State University of New York

Frederick L. Honhart (Frank Boles presenting)
Michigan State University

Elisabeth Kaplan (Nancy Bartlett presenting)
University of Minnesota

Wilda Logan (Danna Bell Russell presenting)
National Archives and Records Administration

Nancy McCall (Peter Hirtle presenting)
Johns Hopkins University

Gregor Trinkaus-Randall (Linda Henry presenting)
Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners)

Diane Vogt-O'Connor (Rob Spindler presenting)
Libary of Congress