ALBANY -- The Board of Regents and the New York State Archives have selected the Canajoharie Library and Art Gallery to receive the 2003 Annual Archives Award for Program Excellence in a Historical Records Repository.
The award will be presented to Canajoharie Library and Art Gallery Curator Jim Crawford at a luncheon ceremony at the State Education Building in Albany on November 13, 2003.
The award commends both the Canajoharie Library and Crawford for taking the initiative to save the history of the textile and food processing industries in Fulton and Montgomery Counties. The award also recognizes Canajoharie Library and Art Gallery's efforts to make people more aware of the region's rich industrial history.
These efforts include the publication of a guide to over seventy collections related to the textile and food processing industries, installation of a permanent exhibition on the Beech-Nut Company, and creation of programs for schoolchildren that get them excited about history.
Previous recipients of this annual award include the Foundation of the Nurses Association of New York State (2000), Crandall Public Library's Center for Folklife, History, and Cultural Programs (2001), and Hofstra University Archives (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