C. Herbert Finch Online Publication Award
Members of the Finding Aids Award Committee shall also be responsible for awarding the C. Herbert Finch Award honoring online publications.
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.
Submission Guidelines for the C. Herbert Finch Award
The Finding Aids 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 individuals or institutions in the MARAC region.
The Finding Aids Award Committee will accept submissions or nominations for the C. Herbert Finch Award. (Note: An online publication that is primarily a finding aid is not eligible for the Finch Award but may be nominated for the Finding Aids Award.)
Eligibility
To be eligible for the award, an online publication must have a stable internet address and must have been published between July 1 and June 30.
Evaluation
The Committee encourages the submission of entries that use a variety of media. Submissions are judged on content, navigability, usability, functionality, and site design.
Award
One award will be given with a maximum value of $250.00. Award to be announced annually at the fall business meeting.
Submission of entries
Submissions must be received by July 31 of the year in which the award is to be given.
Submissions should be sent via e-mail to the Senior Co-Chair of the Finding Aids Award Committee. It should include the URL for each submission with a letter of nomination.
Submissions must be received by July 31, 2022.
Please send URLs for each submission with a letter of nomination to the 2022-2023 Senior Co-Chair of the Finding Aids Award Committee:
Award Winners
2022 Special Collections in Performing Arts at University of Maryland online exhibit: "Persistent Vision: The D.C. Punk Collections at the University of Maryland"
2021 The Rosenbach online exhibit: “I am an American!”: The Authorship and Activism of Alice Dunbar-Nelson
2020 Karen Chittenden, Elizabeth Lindqwister, and Micah Messenheimer Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress story map: "Susie King Taylor: An African American Nurse and Teacher in the Civil War"
University of Virginia Arthur J. Morris Law Library online exhibit: "Marshaling May Days: UVA Law and the 1970 Student Anti-War Movement"
2019 The Museum of Modern Art microsite: "MoMA Through Time: An incomplete history of MoMA and MoMA PS1, as told through objects in the archives."
2018 Rochester Public Library website: www.RochesterVoices.org
2017 Virginia Museum of Fine Arts online exhibit: "The Lillian Thomas Pratt Archives and Faberge at VMFA"
2016 AFS Intercultural Programs online curriculum: “The Volunteers: Americans Join World War I, 1914-1919”
2015 Charles Hardy III, West Chester University, and Janneken Smucker, West Chester University online exhibit: "Goin’ North: Stories from the First Great Migration to Philadelphia"
2014 Trevor Owens, Library of Congress online exhibit: "Finding Our Place in the Cosmos"
2013 National Historical Publications and Records Commission online exhibit: "Founders Online"
2012 Virginia Historical Society database: "Unknown No Longer: A Database of Virginia Slave Names"
2011 Butler Library, Columbia University online exhibit: "1968: Columbia in Crisis"
2010 Chester County Archives, Chester County, PA online exhibit: "Researching Your Chester County Home"
2009 Newport News Public Library online exhibit: "The Old Dominion Land Company and the Development of the City of Newport News"
2008 The National Library of Medicine online exhibit: "Profiles in Science: The Mary Lasker Papers"
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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