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Dear Colleagues, Please excuse cross-posting and feel free to share this widely. The deadline for SAA award nominations is fast approaching. We are hoping for a substantial slate of nominees to reflect the substantial, critical work in this area. Now more than ever we need to call attention to work that celebrates and supports a diverse, pluralistic, and inclusive profession and society. Please nominate yourselves, your colleagues, or the leaders whose work you admire for the SAA 2017 <http://www2.archivists.org/governance/handbook/section12-diversity> Diversity Award <http://www2.archivists.org/governance/handbook/section12-diversity>. Eligible Nominees include any individual, group, or organization. Nominators and nominees need not be SAA members, but to encourage SAA member participation, preference may be given to SAA individual and/or institutional members. Nomination requirements: a brief form <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pcMWcok4c4KKQpbsOkYwI0J3sjKnmHGW8bXq9nWo0lE/edit> and two letters of support submitted by Tuesday, February 28 to [log in to unmask] with the subject line Diversity Award. Sincerely, Cecily Marcus -- Cecily Marcus, Curator Givens Collection of African American Literature Performing Arts Archives Upper Midwest Literary Archives Principal Investigator, Umbra Search African American History <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__umbrasearch.org&d=BQMFaQ&c=8hUWFZcy2Z-Za5rBPlktOQ&r=PsHLRuNA-cHHXrW09gcNb4en_evnImBDfPu0s-6eCZU&m=3VmDnvYWVEHT1dnxFzWDWp6e7OwzkYyIjQlm3pcc4PE&s=fuGjObtcBmqduJ7T38X5TUFAdy0cq3XHxeazhQcQD_k&e=> (umbrasearch.org) University of Minnesota Libraries Archives and Special Collections Elmer L. Andersen Library Suite 213 222-21st Ave. S. Minneapolis MN 55455 Phone: 612 624-8812 FAX: 612 625-5525 [log in to unmask] http://umbrasearch.org/ https://twitter.com/UmbraSearch http://umbrasearch.tumblr.com/ *Archie Givens, Sr. Collection of African American Literature <https://www.facebook.com/pages/Archie-Givens-Sr-Collection-of-African-American-Literature/133433913510966>* http://www.lib.umn.edu/scrbm/givens http://www.lib.umn.edu/scrbm/paa http://www.lib.umn.edu/scrbm/literary ######################################################################## to manage your DLF-ANNOUNCE subscription, visit diglib.org/announce