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C.F.W. Coker Award for Description
Purpose and Criteria for Selection:
Established in 1984, this award recognizes finding aids, finding aid
systems, projects that involve innovative development in archival description,
or descriptive tools that enable archivists to produce effective finding
aids. To merit serious consideration for the award, nominees must,
in some significant way, set national standards, represent a model
for archival description, or otherwise have a substantial impact on
descriptive practices. The following types of works or activities may
be considered:
- Finding aids, including, among others, multi-institutional guides,
record surveys, repository guides, special subject lists, finding
aids to individual collections or records groups, and narrative descriptions
of holdings.
- Finding aid systems, including, among others, manual or automatic
indexing systems, computer databases, or current awareness systems
for notifying users of holdings.
- Descriptive tools that enable archivists to produce more effective
finding aids, including, among others, subject thesauri, authority
files, data element dictionaries, manuals establishing descriptive
standards, and such reference works as atlases and administrative
histories.
- Projects that involve innovative developments in archival description,
including, among others, cooperative ventures that result in the
exchange of finding aid information among repositories, efforts at
building national information systems, and survey projects.
Eligibility:
Individuals, institutions, or groups of individuals or institutions.
There are no restrictions on the format in which information is presented
and formats may include printed volumes, card catalogs, computerized
files, microforms, and slide presentations. Both published and unpublished works produced during the preceding calendar year are eligible. This award is not intended for books or articles
on descriptive theory. Works and activities must involve projects located
primarily in North America.
Sponsor and Funding:
The Society of American Archivists, in
memory of C.F.W. Coker, a Fellow of the Society of American Archivists
who worked at the National Archives and Records Administration and
the Library of Congress, where he was the head of the Reference and
Reader Service Section in the Manuscript Division. Coker was also director
of the Modern Archives Institute, editor of The American Archivist, and
general editor of the first SAA Basic Manual Series.
Prize:
A certificate and a cash prize consisting of the income of the prize
fund for that year.
First Awarded:
1984
Selection Committee:
The subcommittee consists of four members of the Society of American
Archivists, one of whom shall be the current chair
of the Description Section and who shall serve a term concurrent with his
or her office. The remaining members shall be appointed as necessary
by the SAA President-elect to serve a three-year term. In addition, one of the chairs of the SAA Awards Committee shall serve ex officio on the subcommittee.The senior member
of the subcommittee in years of service shall serve as chair and present
the award.
For Nomination Forms:
Download the form. [PDF] [RTF]
Application Deadline:
All nominations shall be submitted to the Awards Committee by February
28 (or other date as announced) of each year.
C.F.W. Coker Award Recipients:
1984: Roy Turnbaugh
1985: Debra L. Newman
1986: Nancy Sahli, Lisa B. Weber
1987: Not awarded
1988: Frederick Honhart
1989: Scott Cline
1990: The Center for Legislative Archives - NARA
1991: David Brumberg, Elaine Engst
1992: Not awarded
1993: Diane Vogt-O'Connor
1994: Not awarded
1995: Robert M. Kvasnicka
1996: Not awarded
1997: Robert B. Matchette; Honorable Mention: Mary Lynn
McCree Bryan
1998: Encoded Archival Description Working Group
1999: Francis X. Blouin, Leonard A. Coombs, Claudia Carlen,
Elizabeth Yakel, Katherine J. Gill
2000: Not awarded
2001: Waverly
Lowell, Kelcy Shepherd
2002: Not awarded
2003: Not awarded
2004: RLG's EAD Advisory Group
2005: Online Archives of California
2006: The Walt Whitman Archive
2007: Greg Bradsher
2008: The Archivists’ Toolkit (AT)
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