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American Archives Month 2009
Make An Impact! Contest
Make an Impact! Contest Winners
SAA congratulates the winners of the 2009 American Archives Month Make an Impact! Contest. "Did You Know Your Grandmother Was a Beauty Queen?" submitted by the Blair-Caldwell African American Research Library of the Denver Public Library, received the most votes for Best Poster to Promote 2009 Archives Month/Week, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison Student Chapter of SAA won for Best Successfully Implemented Campaign for its class project. Browse all entries below. Thanks to everyone who submitted entries and to all who voted. Together, we can make an impact!
Check out last year's contest winners here or how the Georgia State Archives used a survey to demonstrate the value of an archives as a tourist destination here. |
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Entries for Best Poster to Promote 2009 Archives Month/Week
- Did You Know Your Grandmother Was a Beauty Queen?
Blair-Caldwell African American Research Library (BCL)
Denver Public Library
Denver, CO
Description
Digitized collection on Flickr, Denver Public Library Western History and Genealogy Department (WHG)
- Kentucky Archives Month
Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives,
Kentucky State Historical Records Advisory Board,
Kentucky Council on Archives
Description
- To Choose Our Better History
Virginia Archives Month Committee,
Library of Virginia,
Virginia Caucus of the Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference (MARAC),
Library of Virginia Foundation,
Virginia State Historical Records Advisory Board
Description
Archives Month in Virginia
- Scrapbook Wisconsin
Wisconsin Historical Records Advisory Board (WHRAB),
Wisconsin Historical Society
Description
- Celebrate American Archives Month!
Smithsonian Institution
- "I have so much to tell you...."
Mississippi Archives Month
Mississippi Department of Archives and History,
Mississippi Historical Records Advisory Board,
Society of Mississippi Archivists
Description
Society of Mississippi Archivists 2009 Archives Month
- No matter how you get there...Visit your local Archives
Jesse White, Secretary of State and State Archivist,
Illinois State Archives,
Illinois State Historical Records Advisory Board,
Chicago Area Archivists
Description
Illinois Archives Month, October 2009
- Reflecting the Dutch Heritage of Albany and Its Presence in American Records
University at Albany Student Chapter of the Society of American Archivists
Description
- Tough Times in a Tough Land
Arizona State Library, Archives & Public Records
Arizona Historical Records Advisory Board
Description
Entries for Best Successfully Implemented Campaign
- University of Wisconsin-Madison
Students of LIS 754: Archives User Services and Outreach,
UW-Madison Student Chapter of SAA
Full Project Description
Summary: In the fall of 2008, the Archives and Records Administration students at the University of Wisconsin—Madison School of Library and Information Studies first launched an outreach campaign in celebration of American Archives Month. Led by students enrolled in Dr. Ciaran Trace's "Archives User Services and Outreach" class, the project revolved around the creation, development, and marketing of a blog centered on a specific topic or theme. The topic for October 2008 was the dissemination of information "about the various institutions around the state that act to preserve and make available for use the records of Wisconsin's rich heritage." The blog proved to be such a success that it continued again in 2009.
This Make an Impact! contest submission for Best Successfully Implemented Campaign describes the topic of our blog, briefly explains the information gathering and advertising strategies we used to populate and market our blog, and reports statistics and other data on visits to the blog.
- Smithsonian Institution
Archives of American Gardens
Washington, D.C.
Full Project Description
Summary:The Smithsonian Institution’s Archives of American Gardens (AAG) celebrated American Archives Month by reaching out to the general public as well as a targeted audience of garden professionals to raise awareness about the Archives' holdings and the importance of archival resources in general. Given the popularity and impact demonstrated by examples from other Smithsonian photographic collections on Flickr Commons, AAG staff uploaded an inaugural selection of images of historic glass lantern slides from the Garden Club of America Collection in celebration of American Archives Month.
In addition to posting to Flickr, archives staff crafted a simple blast email announcement (see Full Project Description link above) using the sample press release provided by SAA online. They compiled a distribution list of editors of garden magazines with online versions and also targeted garden history and garden enthusiast bloggers from across the country. As a result, the Archives' announcement made it into several online venues, including the American Public Gardens Association (APGA) Newsletter for October, the Garden Design Magazine Blog (www.gardendesignonline.com/gardendesignonline/2009/10/historic-garden-photos-.html), and Twitter (http://twitter.com/chicagogardener/statuses/4769466785), to name a few.
Entries for Best "Astonishing Idea"
No entries received.
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