ALBANY -- The Board of Regents and the New York State Archives have selected the New York State Emergency Management Office (SEMO) to receive the 2006 Annual Archives Award for Excellence in State Agency Records Management.
The award will be presented to Director John R. Gibb and Records Management Officer Thomas Rinaldi at a luncheon ceremony at the State Education Building in Albany on October 23, 2006.
The award recognizes SEMO for an outstanding records management program that now serves as a model for other state agencies. It commends SEMO for identifying and scheduling forty records series in its eleven program units, covering nearly 2,000 cubic feet of records and including eleven series of records indicated for permanent preservation in the State Archives. The latter includes important documentation of the agency's responses to various disasters occurring in the state, including its response and follow up to the destruction of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.
Previous recipients of this annual award include the New York State Department of Health (2000), New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (2001), New York State Office of the Attorney General (2002), Binghamton University (2003), New York State Insurance Department (2004), and the New York State Department of Civil Service (2005).
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
Archivists Roundtable of Metropolitan New York
Excellence in Research Using the Holdings of the State Archives
Timothy J. Gilfoyle, Department of History, Loyola University, Chicago
Debra E. Bernhardt Award for Excellence in Documenting New York’s
History
The Rochester Museum and Science Center and the Latino Alliance
Program Excellence in a Historical Records Repository
Huguenot Historical Society, New Paltz, New York
William H. Kelly Award for Excellence in Local Government Archival
Program Development
Saratoga County
Cheryl Steinbach Award for Excellence in Local Government Records Management
Town of Cheektowaga
Excellence in State Agency Records Management
New York State Emergency Management Office
Bruce W. Dearstyne Educator Award for Excellence in the Educational
Use of Local Government Records
Susan Stessin-Cohn, Ulster County
Laura and Robert Chodos Award for Excellence in Student Research Using
Historical Records, Grades 4-5 and The Regents Award of Distinction for Student
Research
The Walden History Group, Walden Elementary School, Walden. Educator: Nancy
Phelps
Laura and Robert Chodos Award for Excellence in Student Research Using
Historical Records, Grades 6-8
Edward Bugniazet and Nicholas LaSorsa, Windward School, White Plains. Educators:
Marjorie R. Gleit and John Manganiello
Laura and Robert Chodos Award for Excellence in Student Research Using
Historical Records, Grades 9-12
Lauren Koenig, tenth grader at Solomon Schechter High School, Glen Cove. Educator:
Dr. Linda Rubino