2014 Award and Scholarship Winners
Archie Motley Memorial Scholarship Louisa Bowen Memorial Scholarship
Archie Motley Memorial ScholarshipRaquel Flores-Clemons and Lorena Ramirez-Lopez are the recipients of this year’s memorial scholarships for minority students. Flores-Clemons received her BA in art history from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and is pursuing her master’s in library and information science degree with special collections specialization from U of I. She has experience in several information settings, including currently working with oral histories at the University of Illinois’ art gallery, and working at the Sousa Archives and the Champaign Public Library. Flores-Clemons also is a founding member of the Midwest Hip-Hop Archives, where she is a volunteer. Additionally she has worked at the University of Illinois’ Krannert Art Museum and the University Career Center. She is the current fellow in the Association of Research Libraries Career Enhancement Program, and she has been selected twice in recent years as a LIS Access Midwest Program (L.A.M.P.) scholar.
Ramirez-Lopez received her BA in Spanish and cinema studies from New York University and is pursuing her master’s of arts in moving image archiving and preservation from NYU. She has done concentrated course work on Latino media, movie marketing, Spanish language theater, and other cinema studies-specific courses. She has experienced NYU’s study in Madrid, concentrating on work in the Prado Museum. She is active on her campus, serving as the president of the American Moving Image Association student chapter at NYU, and active with APEX. She is a recipient of the TSOA Graduate Scholarship, a Cantor scholarship, and a Dean’s Undergraduate Research Fund grant for her graduate work. Ramirez-Lopez is currently working in NYU’s Preservation and Conservation Lab, as well as volunteering at WITNESS, a human rights advocacy video project.
Emeritus ScholarshipThe 2014 winner of the Emeritus Scholarship for First-Time MAC Meeting Attendees is Julie Hatfield of the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire. She is a recent MLIS graduate with an archival studies concentration from the UW-Milwaukee School of Information Studies. While in graduate school, she assisted in the creation of a web-based tool that searches and provides access to finding aids for archival collections at UW-Eau Claire. She currently holds a part-time position at the university, working as a project assistant on projects to digitize portions of the university’s archival collections, to implement its first digital collections tool, and to help publicize the tool to potential users, looking toward the prospect of carrying out some digital humanities projects in collaborations with university faculty.
Louisa Bowen Memorial ScholarshipThe 2014 recipient of the Louisa Bowen Memorial Scholarship is Andria Hoy. Hoy is pursuing her master of library and information science degree with a concentration in archival administration at Kent State University. She received her bachelor of music in music performance from Louisiana State University and a master of music from the Cleveland Institute of Music. She is currently archives assistant at the Cleveland Orchestra. Other work experience includes the Robinson Music Library at the Cleveland Institute of Music. Hoy is a member of the Society of Ohio Archivists. In addition to her archival studies, she maintains an active performance career as an oboist.
Presidents Award
Pitzer was nominated jointly by Brenda Burk (Indiana University–Purdue University at Indianapolis) and Bill Maher (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The nominators emphasized Pritzer's tireless advocacy for the preservation of, and especially access to, the records of the National Future Farmers of America Organization. He has been a key player in ensuring that FFA records made their way into the collections of IUPUI and U of I, has promoted their use by students and scholars, and has raised and donated funds to facilitate digitizing important segments of the records. John M. Preis, YMCA Retirement Fund Preis was nominated by Lara Friedman-Shedlov and Ryan Bean of the Kautz Family YMCA Archives, University of Minnesota. Preis has played a critical role in ensuring preservation of, and access to, the voluminous archives of the National YMCA Organization in the Special Collections of the University of Minnesota. He also secured crucial funding to digitize significant portions of the records, and then facilitated a study that resulted in a framework for the preservation of local YMCA chapter records around the United States.
Student Poster AwardsThe posters of three students were honored at this year’s Annual Meeting. Adrienne Evans, University of Wisconsin–Madison, received first place; Lindsay Morecraft, graduate student at the University of Iowa, second place; and Ellen LeClere, graduate student at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, third place. The awards were made possible by the generous support of UMB Bank. |