Archives Appreciation Award
Award Description and Criteria
The Archives Appreciation Award recognizes an agency, organization or institution which has provided extraordinary support for archival programs. These can include arrangement and description programs, public service programs, reference, exhibits, or outreach. The award is sponsored by our longtime partner Hollinger Metal Edge, Inc. Nominees should meet as many of the following criteria as possible:
- Serving its user constituency in an outstanding fashion
- Demonstrated creativity and resourcefulness toward improving operations or methods of the archival endeavor
- Going beyond the normal requirements expected of an archival agency and providing a model for others
- Developing over a period of time a program of such depth and scope as to warrant special recognition
Nomination Form -- The nominating process for AGM 2021 is open.
(Form ALERT: download and SAVE form before filling out, then fill out and submit via email. Do NOT fill out form in web browser.)
Archives Appreciation Award recipients:
2019 Los Angeles Archivists Collective
2017 Immaculate Heart Community
2015 Los Angeles Metropolitan Transportation Authority
2014 Mission Inn Foundation
2013 California Historical Society
2012 Solano County Historical Records Commission
2011 Paloheimo Foundation
2010 Idyllwild Area Historical Society
2009 Riverside County Assessor/County Clerk/Recorder’s Office
2008 Levi Strauss & Co
2007 Bakersfield College and Bakersfield College Archives Association
2006 The Automobile Club of Southern California
2005 Friends of the Yolo County Archives
2004 The Leon and Sylvia Panetta Institute for Public Policy
2003 Walt Disney Company
2002 A.K. Smiley Public Library
2001 Florin Japanese American Citizens League
2000 Stanford Linear Accelerator Center