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Outreach Award

This award recognizes excellence in an individual or institution that promotes public awareness, appreciation, and support of archives and archival records through an outreach activity or project. It is open to the membership of the ASA that has engaged in an activity or project to promote knowledge, awareness, or interest in archives, records and historical resources (as relating to archives) to audiences beyond the archival profession.

Deadline: April 30, 2025

Criteria for Eligibility

The activity must have taken place within the 24 months prior to January 1st of the current year.

Nominations will be considered in accordance with the following criteria:
  1. Complexity, scope, impact, and innovation of the outreach activity or project
  2. Collaboration among individuals, archival institutions, and/or external organizations
  3. Depth and breadth of the audience
  4. Demonstration of increased recognition and impact on archives or the archival profession as a result of the outreach activity or project
  5. Activities or projects that highlight gaps in the archival record or include underrepresented groups, including but not limited to, BIPOC, people with disabilities, new Canadians, 2SLGBTQIA+ individuals and communities, women, economically or socially disadvantaged people or communities, etc.
Submissions:
  1. A letter of support from at least one person familiar with the activity or project that can speak to the significance of the outreach may be included.
  2. Supporting materials may include promotional materials, website links or screenshots, descriptions of the activity or project, and some insight on how the activity or project supports and promotes the institution’s profile.
Administration of the award:
  1. The ASA Nominations and Awards Committee will accept nominations until April 30, 2025.
  2. Judges cannot consider submissions in which they have participated, or to which they have given substantial direct assistance.
  3. Nominations are not required to meet all eligibility criteria, though judges will consider the overall impact of the outreach activity or project based on all eligibility criteria.
  4. Judging will be completed before the Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the ASA.
  5. Awards will be presented at the AGM. Winners may also be announced via other ASA communication channels.
  6. One (1) award will be given each year.

Outreach Award Nomination Form

Archives Society of Alberta would like to acknowledge the financial support of the Government of Alberta that provides annual funding to the ASA.

ASA acknowledges that our office is located in Treaty 6 territory, the traditional land of the Dene, Métis, Salteaux, Nakoda Sioux, Cree and Blackfoot peoples. As we are a provincial organization, our work is spread throughout all of Alberta, and as such, we recognize Treaty 7 & 8 and all Indigenous, Métis and Inuit people and their lands that our work touches.

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