ALBANY -- The Board of Regents and the New York State Archives have selected Niagara County to receive the 2003 Cheryl Steinbach Annual Archives Award for Excellence in Local Government Records Management.
The award will be presented to Niagara County Clerk Wayne Jagow and Deputy Clerk Wendy Roberson at a luncheon ceremony at the State Education Building in Albany on November 13, 2003. The award is named for the late Cheryl Steinbach, Chautauqua Town Clerk, who was a strong advocate for strengthening local government archival and records management programs.
This award recognizes Niagara County for establishing a comprehensive records management program. The county obtained grant support and committed local funds to constructing a state-of-the-art records center. It assumed a leadership role in the region, offering tours, making presentations, publishing a procedures manual and producing a "how-to" video to inspire other local governments to take records management seriously.
In recent years, Niagara County has pursued cooperative records management arrangements with the City of Niagara Falls, the Niagara Falls School District, and the Niagara County Cooperative Extension. It has also worked with the county's historical society to promote access to the county's public records.
Previous recipients of this annual award include Rockland County (2000), the City of Troy (2001), and Corning Community College (2002).
The annual Archives Awards program recognizes outstanding efforts in archives and records management work in New York State by a broad range of individuals and organizations. A complete list of this year's award recipients follows:
William Hoyt Advocacy Award
Thomas G. Clingan, Albany County Clerk
Program Excellence in a Historical Records Repository
Canajoharie Library and Art Gallery
William H. Kelly Award for Excellence in Local Government Archival Program
Development
Ulster County
Cheryl Steinbach Award for Excellence in Local Government Records Management
Niagara County
Excellence in State Agency Archival Program Development
Binghamton University
Debra E. Bernhardt Award for Excellence in Documenting New York's History
Consumer/Expatient/Survivor Oral History Project
Regents Award of Distinction for Student Research
Ludlum Elementary School, Hempstead School District
Laura and Robert Chodos Award for Excellence in Student Research Using Historical
Records, Grades 4-5
Kamisha Anderson, Izeele Riojas, Charisse Strong, Derrick Brown, Luchen Thomas,
Kiarivel Peralta, DeQuan Mitchell, Peter Collins, Stephanie Custillo, Norma
Rivera, Davine Nichols
Joshua Rivera, Gabriel Devoe, fifth graders at P.S. 197 M, Manhattan.
Teacher: Joan Weisberger.
Laura and Robert Chodos Award for Excellence in Student Research Using Historical
Records, Grades 6-8
Daniel Mann, 8th grader at Felix Festa Middle School, Clarkstown School District.
Teachers: Barbara Kalmar and Laura Padilla
Laura and Robert Chodos Award for Excellence in Student Research Using Historical
Records, Grades 9-12
Laura Caccavo, 9th grader at Clarkstown High School North
Teachers: Penelope Macias and Christina Teresa Vickery
Bruce W. Dearstyne Educator Award for Excellence in the Use of Local Government
Records
Larry Slanovich, Yorkshire-Pioneer School District, Yorkshire, New York