As you might expect, we had a very competitive group of nominees for this year’s Best Archives on the Web awards. After much consideration, the judges have chosen:
Best Institutional Blog
Winner: Historical Notes from OHSU – Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) Historical Collections & Archives
Winner: Peeling Back the Bark – The Forest History Society
Honorable Mention: Brooklynology – Brooklyn Public Library
Best Archives Website
Winner: Archiefbank – Amsterdam City Archives
Winner: Mapping Our Anzacs – National Archives of Australia
Winner: Seeking Michigan – The Library of Michigan and the State Archives of Michigan
Honorable Mention: The Archives of American Art – Smithsonian Institution
Most Whimsical Archives-Related Website
Winner: Derangement & Description – Dee Dee
Winner: Mustaches of the Nineteenth Century – University of Kentucky Archives
Honorable Mention: The Fictional World of Archives, Museums & Art Galleries – David Mattison
Following last year’s pattern, I will devote a post to each of the categories in the coming weeks to highlight what the judges found so exemplary about all of these winners. I want to thank everyone who nominated a site. I know all of the judges found it exhilarating to see the good work being done out there, even if we were not able to reward all of it as we might have wanted to.
These awards would not be possible without the efforts of our distinguished colleagues who joined me in reviewing the nominations. This year’s judges were:
Geof Huth, New York State Archives
Jeanne Kramer-Smyth, iSchool, University of Maryland
Claude Zachary, University of Southern California
Tanya Zanish-Belcher, Iowa State University
Thanks, again to them for their service, and congratulations to the winners!
Woo-hoo for Dee Dee!
Nice to see a Dutch website win an award! The Archiefbank is a great example of the use of technology to facilitate access to the collection. Congraz to the Stadsarchief Amsterdam team!
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Once again, Oregon rules. Yay Sara! Thanks for doing this, Kate. I do appreciate that you take the time to pimp our colleagues good work.
The Amsterdam Archives Website is the best! Nothing to beat it!
I’m very glad Stadsarchief Amsterdam won this price. The website of the Archiefbank is an inspiring example to me.
Anyone know what kind of system that delivers the Stadsarchief Amsterdam index? Is it an of the shelf system?
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