Finding Aid Awards
The Finding Aid Award is given yearly to recognize outstanding achievement in the preparation of finding aids, electronic or paper, by institutions within the MARAC region (NY, NJ, MD,PA, DE, DC, VA, WV). Nominated finding aids must be available to the public during 2008.
The top award will receive the designation of the Fredric M. Miller Finding Aids Award, in honor of Dr. Miller's contributions to the field as archivist and author. Monetary awards will be presented at the Spring 2008 meeting.
Call for Submissions
The Finding Aids Committee might look at one or more of the following characteristics in finding aids (please see Characteristics of Successful Finding Aids for detailed descriptions of each category):
The Finding Aids Committee also wants to encourage the submission of nontraditional
finding aids.
Submissions are due by December 15, 2008
Please submit a URL or an electronic attachment of the finding aid to the Chair of the Finding Aid Award Committee:
Mary Manning – Chair
(Spring 2007 - Spring 2009)
Assistant University Archivist and Special Collections Librarian
Swirbul Library
Adelphi University
1 South Avenue
Garden City, NY 11530
TEL: 516/877-3818
FAX: 516/877-3675
manning@adelphi.edu
For further information on the award see the Finding Aid Award Committee
Award Winners
The MARAC Finding Aid Awards were first given in 1984 for the best finding aids of 1983. Arthur Breton of the Archives of American Art was chair of the first Finding Aid Awards Committee and has been credited as the creator of the awards. Until the 1993 awards, awards were given for the best finding aid in various categories. Beginning in 1993, first, second, and third place awards were given, irrespective of category. Awards initially were in the form of certificates only, but monetary awards are now also given currently $100, $75, and $50).
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2006
Fredric M. Miller Finding Aid Award $250: MacKenzie Bennett of the Museum of Modern Art Archives for The Art Lending Service and Art Advisory Service Records, 1948-1996
2nd Place $150.00: Kit Messick and Brad Campbell of the Billy Rose Theatre Division, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts for their Guide to the Paddy Chayefsky Papers.
3rd Place $100.00: Jeannette Mercer Saber and Susan Hamburger from the Special Collections Library, Rare Books and Manuscripts, University Libraries, Pennsylvania State University for the Guide to the Kenneth Burke Letters to William H. Rueckert
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2005
Fredric M. Miller Finding Aid Award $250: Susan P. Waide, United States Sanitary Commission: Washington Hospital Directory Archives. Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library.
2nd Place $200.00: Caris Brown, Kim Dixon, and Gregory Pike, History Associates Incorporated, Joshua Lederberg Papers. National Library of Medicine.
3rd Place $100.00: Renee M. Savits, Guide to the Mutual Assurance Society of Virginia General Business Records. The Library of Virginia.
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2004
Fredric M. Miller Finding Aid Award $250: Rebecca L. Collier, The Korean War. [National Archives Records Relating to the Korean War. Reference Information Paper 103]. National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.
2nd Place–Repository Guide $50.00: Joelen El Bashir, Lela Sewell-Williams, Dr. Ida E. Jones, Donna M. Wells, Gladys Toney, and Richard E. Jenkins III, Guide to the Processed Collections in the Manuscript Division, Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, Howard University.
SINGLE COLLECTION:
First Place $100: Emily Rafferty, Dr. Claribel and Miss Etta Cone Papers. Baltimore Museum of Art, Archives and Manuscripts Collections
Second Place $50: Ilana Lutman (Principal Archivist), Catherine N. Carson, Jennifer Crebs, Jacquelyn Ferry, Cortney Riley, and Mike Tavani, A Guide to the Assemblyman Eric N. Vitaliano Papers, College of Staten Island, City University of New York.
Third Place $50: Katherine A. Hayes, Finding Aid to the William F. Meggers Papers, Additions, American Institute of Physics. Center for History of Physics. College Park, MD .
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2003
Fredric M. Miller Finding Aid Award $200: Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library, Columbia University. Viola Wertheim Bernard Papers.
Please note: Rather than dividing the awards by category as has been done in previous years, the committee decided to give equal awards of $100 each to three other excellent finding aids. These were:
Kent A. Woynowski, History Associates, Inc., National Library of Medicine. Donald S. Fredrickson Papers.
Katharine Stefko, Bertha Adams, Adrianna Del Collo, Courtney Smerz, and Honor Keeler, Philadelphia Museum of Art. Fiske Kimball Papers.
Joseph Klett. New Jersey State Archives Website.
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2002
SINGLE COLLECTION:
First Place: $125. Elaine Stomber, "Guide to the Papers of Howard Chandler Christy." Lafayette College Special Collections & College Archives.
Second Place: $75. Kristine Marconi McGee, Finding Aid for the George W. Ball Papers, Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library, Department of Special Collections and Archives, Princeton University
Third Place: $50. Laura Peimer, Guide to the Goodyear Archival Collection, Brooklyn Museum of Art.
MULTIPLE COLLECTION:
First Place: Frederic M. Miller Finding Aid Award: $125. Gerald P. Gaidmore, Guide to Church Records in the Library of Virginia, Library of Virginia.
Second Place: $75. Albert C. King and Erika B. Gorder, Women's History Sources: A Guide to Manuscripts and Archival Collections at Rutgers University, Rutgers University Libraries Special Collections and Archives.
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2001
SINGLE COLLECTION:
First Place, Frederic M. Miller Finding Aid Award: William Stingone, Guide to the Carnegie Corporation of New York Records, Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Columbia University.
Second Place: Brett M. Reigh and Patrick Henry Shea, Coxe Family Mining Papers, The Historical Society of Pennsylvania.
Third Place: Kristine Marconi McGee, Guide to the Franklin Book Programs Archives. Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Seely Mudd Manuscript Library, Princeton University.
MULTIPLE COLLECTION:
First Place: Karen Huffman, Guide to the Washingtoniana's Oral History Research Center's Collection. Washington, D.C. Community Archives, D.C. Public Library.
Second Place: Sheridan Harvey, Janice E. Ruth, Barbara Orbach Natanson, Evelyn Sinclair, and Sara Day, American Women: A Library of Congress Guide for the Study of Women's History and Culture in the United States, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Third Place: Library of Virginia, Burned Records Counties Database.
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2000
SINGLE COLLECTION:
First Place: Cynthia K. Sauer, United University Professions Records. M.E. Grenander Department of Special Collections and Archives, University at Albany, State University of New York
Second Place: Marcia Bassett, Guide to the Grace M. Mayer Papers, Museum of Modern Art.
Third Place: Barbara Addison, The Papers of Devere Allen. Swarthmore College Peace Collection.
MULTIPLE COLLECTION:
First Place, Frederic M. Miller Finding Aid Award: Ruth Hodge, Guide to African American Resources at the Pennsylvania State Archives. Pennsylvania State Archives.
Second Place: Niels Bohr Library, American Institute of Physics, Center for History of Physics Physics History Finding Aids.
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1999
First Place, Frederic M. Miller Finding Aid Award: United States Department of Agriculture, Guide to the USDA History Collection, 1761-1997. Alan Haeberle
Second Place, Large Repository: New York State Archives, The Union Preserved: a Guide to Civil War Records in the New York State Archives. Ed. by Harold Holzer. Compiled by Daniel Lorello.
Third Place, Large Repository: Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library at Princeton University, Fund for the Republic Archives. Kristine Marconi, et al.
First Place, Small Repository: Monmouth County Archives. Mary Ann Kiernan, webmaster.
Second Place, Small Repository: The Historical Society of Washington D.C., Charles Carroll Glover Papers, 1681-1991. Michelle Krowl, processor.
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1998
First Place, Fredric M. Miller Finding Aid Award: Helena Zinkham, A Guide to Print, Photograph, Architecture & Ephemera Collections at The New-York Historical Society.
Second Place: Princeton University, Seeley G. Mudd Library, Allen W. Dulles Papers.
Third Place: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, American Memory: America from the Great Depression to World War II: Photographs from the FSA and OWI, ca. 1935-1945.
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1997
First Place: Lynn Ann Catanese, Hagley Museum and Library, Women's History: Guide to Women's History Sources at Hagley Museum and Library.
Second Place: Mudd Library, Princeton University, Association on American Indian Affairs Archives Papers. (Paper finding aid and web page.)
Third Place: Tammy Gobert and Henry Chauncey, Educational Testing Service Archives, The Chauncey Family Archives, 1669 to 1993; A Guide.
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1996
First Place: Deirdre E. Lawrence and Deborah Wythe, The Brooklyn Museum, Guide to the Culin Collection.
Second Place: Gail S. Terry, Virginia Historical Society, Documenting Women's Lives: A User's Guide to Manuscripts at the Virginia Historical Society.
Third Place: George Brightbill, Temple University, PASCL (Philadelphia Area Consortium of Special Collections Libraries) Photograph Directory (2 vols.),
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1995
First Place: F. Holly Hodges, Guide to African-American Manuscripts in the Collection of the Virginia Historical Society.
Second Place: David Farneth, John Andrus, and Dave Stein, Guide to the Weill-Lenya Research Center, Kurt Weill Foundation for Music, Inc., New York.
Third Place (tie):
a. Kristen D. Turner, A Guide to Materials on Women in the United Methodist Church Archives, Madison, NJ.
b. Daniel M. Fisher, Jr., Town of Hempstead Archives Repository Guide, Hempstead, NY.
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1994
First Place: Frank H. Serene, World War II on Film: A Catalog of Select Motion Pictures in the National Archives.
Second Place: Antonia S. Mattheou, The Guide to the Archival Records and Manuscripts of the Town of Huntington.
Third Place (tie):
a. Richard C.Wandel, Summary Guide to Current Collections, The National Museum & Archive of Lesbian & Gay History, The Lesbian & Gay Community Services Center, New York City,
b. Anne Mininberg and Nancy Polevoy, Guide to the Archives, Central Synagogue, New York City.
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1993
First Place: Linda Ries, Guide to Photographs at the Pennsylvania State Archives.
Second Place: Kathleen Roe, Guide to Records in the New York State Archives.
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1992
First Place: Jane Gottlieb, Steven E. Novak, and Taras Pavlovsky, Guide to the Juilliard School Archives.
Honorable Mention: Balch Institute, Guide to Manuscript and Microfilm Collections at the Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies.
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1991
Barbara Lewis Burger, Guide to the Holdings of the Still Picture Branch of the National Archives.
James D. Folts, Duly and Constantly Kept, New York State Archives and Records Administration.
Diane Vogt O'Connor, Guide to Photographic Collections at the Smithsonian Institution, Vol. 2.
Allan Teichroew, W. Averell Harriman: A Register of His Papers at the Library of Congress.
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1990
Michael Plunkett, Afro-American Sources in Virginia: A Guide to Manuscripts, University of Virginia.
Pamela Kirwan Adams, Alexandra Weil, and Roland M. Baumann, Guide to the Women's History Sources in the Oberlin College Archives.
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1989
Charles E. Schamel, Mary Rephlo, Rodney Ross, David Kepley, Robert Coren, and Gregory Bradsher, Guide to the Records of the United States House of Representatives at the National Archives, 1789-1989.
Robert Coren, Mary Rephlo, David Kepley, and Charles South, Guide to the Records of the United States Senate at the National Archives, 1789-1989.
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1988
Wendy E. Chmielewski, Guide to Sources on Women in the Swarthmore College Peace Collection.
Cynthia Pease Miller, Guide to Research Collections of Former Members of the United States House of Representatives, 1789-1987.
Sandra Shaffer Van Doren, Register of the Archives of the Rohm and Haas Company.
T. Michael Womack, Archiv des Associatione Vereins zum Schultz deutscher Einwanderer in Texas and the Friedrich Armand Strubberg Collection, Beinecke Library, Yale University.
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1987
Lynn Ann Catanese, Guide to the Records of the Court of Common Pleas, Chester County, Pennsylvania, 1681-1900, Chester County Historical Society.
Mary R. Murrin, New Jersey Historical Manuscripts: A Guide to Collections in the State.
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1986
Claire Collier, Photograph Collections in the Rockefeller Archives Center.
Miriam I. Crawford with the assistance of Jun Hi Yu, A Descriptive Guide of the University Archives of Temple University (Its Conwelliana-Templana Collection).
Gary D. Saretzky and Jane E. Davis, A Guide to the Gertrude Hildreth Papers and Test Collection, Educational Testing Service Archives.
John R. Sellers, Civil War Manuscripts: A Guide to the Collections in the Manuscript Division of the Library of Congress.
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1985
No record in the MARAC Archives for an award this year.
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1984
Diane Windham Shaw, Guide to the Papers of Lawrence Henry Gipson, Lehigh University.
Debra L. Newman, Black History: A Guide to Civilian Records in the National Archives.
Gary D. Saretzky, Index to ETS Research Report Series, 1969-1982, Microfiche Edition, Educational Testing Service Archives.
Peter Wosh, Guide to Northern New Jersey Catholic Parish and Institutional Records.
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1983
William LeFurgy, Susan Wertheimer David, and Richard J. Cox, Governing Baltimore: A Guide to the Records of the Mayor and City Council at the Baltimore City Archives.
Merle Chamberlain, Inventory of the Archives, Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Smithsonian Archives, Guide to the Smithsonian Archives, 1983.
National Archives, Guide to Genealogical Research in the National Archives.
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