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Grant of the Week: MARAC Arline Custer Memorial Award

Karen Lou | Jun 30, 2020

Every week, Perspectives Daily showcases a new grant, fellowship, or scholarship that has been posted to our free community calendar. This week we are featuring the Arline Custer Memorial Award from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference (MARAC). 

Criteria

The Arline Custer Memorial Award is presented by the MARAC Arline Custer Memorial Award Committee. This award honors the memory of Arline Custer (1909–75), MARAC member and editor of the National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections. The Arline Custer Memorial Award recognizes the best books and articles written or compiled by individuals and institutions in the MARAC region: the District of Columbia, Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia and West Virginia.

Works under consideration include, but are not limited to, monographs, popular narratives, reference works and exhibition catalogs using archival sources.Individuals or institutions may submit up to two works published between July 1, 2019 and June 30, 2020.

Preference will be given to works by archivists. Entries must be received by July 31, 2020. 

Amount

Up to three awards may be given, with a maximum value of $200.00 for books and $100.00 for articles. The 2020 award(s) will be announced at the Fall 2020 Conference in Long Branch, NJ.

End: July 31, 2020

Contact: jasmine.smith@alvernia.edu

More Info: https://www.marac.info/arline-custer-memorial-award

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