Do you know someone or a team of people doing innovative work with primary sources? The Center for Research Library’s Primary Source Awards are presented annually in three categories: access (for promoting discovery and use of primary source materials), research (for innovative use in research projects), and teaching (for use in the classroom). This is a great way to acknowledge new trends and practices emerging across various research disciplines, as well as recognizing important library services to scholars.
Projects awarded in 2019 include Texas Borderlands Newspaper Collection,” University of North Texas digital collection representing nearly 66,000 pages of historical newspapers from 18 counties and “Mapping Consumers in the Black South African Press,” a digital map of advertisements placed in South African newspapers for black African readers created by a Michigan State PhD student.
Nominations are due by January 31, 2020.