MARAC C. Herbert Finch Online Publication Award
The C. Herbert Finch Online Publication Award was established to honor the memory of C. Herbert Finch, former Assistant Director of Cornell University Libraries, who died on April 27, 2005.
Mission and Goals
The Arline Custer Memorial Award Committee will award a prize honoring online publications including virtual exhibitions, web sites and web pages devoted to the promotion and use of archival materials created by an individual, individuals, or an institution in the states comprising MARAC. The award will be made annually at the MARAC meeting.
Operations
Members of the Arline Custer Memorial Award Committee will be responsible for awarding the C. Herbert Finch Award and will use the same rules of operations for all awards with the exceptions described below.
Call for Submissions
The Arline Custer Award Committee will accept submissions or nominations for the C. Herbert Finch Award for online publications such as virtual exhibitions, web sites or web pages devoted to the promotion and use of archival materials. A web site publication that is primarily a finding aid is not eligible for the Finch Award but may be nominated for the Finding Aid Award.
To be eligible for the award, an online publication must have a stable Internet address and must have been issued between January 1 and December 30 of the corresponding year. Awards are presented at the following Fall Conference.
Entries are judged on content, navigability, usability, functionality and site design.
Submissions must be received by July 31, 2008
Please send URLs for each submission to the Chair of the Arline Custer Memorial Award Committee:
Laurie A. Rofini
Chester County Archives and Records Services
601 Westtown Road, Suite 080
West Chester, PA 19380-0990
TEL: 610/344-6760
or send email to lrofini@chesco.org
Other MARAC awards
Books, articles, and exhibition catalogues should be submitted to the Arline Custer Memorial Award.
Archival finding aids, including guides should be submitted to the MARAC Finding Aids Award Committee.
Award Winners
2007
Jessica Tanny, University Archives, State University of New York at Buffalo
online exhibit: Samuel P. Capen: University Man
2006
University of Virginia
online exhibit: Patients' Voices in Early 19th Century Virginia: Letters to Doct. James Carmichael & Son
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