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The ASA celebrates its members with publications
awards and lifetime memberships! |
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Alan D. Ridge Publications Award
The award is named in honour of Alan D. Ridge, Provincial Archivist of
Alberta from 1968-1984. His active involvement in archives and records
management in England, Canada, and the United States has provided leadership
and stimulation to the archival community in Alberta and beyond.
The award is given to recognize and reward those who have published
material of a high quality and scholarly nature which promotes, discusses, or
analyses topics relevant to the archival profession.
Read more about this award below...
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Recipients of the Alan D. Ridge Publications Award:
| 2001 - 2005 |
| Award not presented. |
| 2000 |
| Cash Award | Award was not presented this
year. |
Special Award
of Merit | Karen Buckley for No
Ordinary Prairie
Town : A Researcher's Guide and Historical Inventory to the Towns of Southern Alberta.
-- Calgary : Privately printed by author, 1998.
Mary Nutting for From One Generation to Another: Historical Resources in the City
of Grande Prairie and Surrounding Area. -- Grande Prairie, Alberta : Grande Prairie
Regional Museum, 1999
Donny White for Geraldine Moody: An Inventory.. -- Regina : Canadian Plains
Research Centre, University of Regina, 1999. |
| 1999 |
| Cash Award | Award was not presented this
year. |
Special Award
of Merit | Award was not presented this
year. |
| 1998 |
| Cash Award | Award was not presented this
year. |
Special Award
of Merit | Elizabeth Denham and Donna
Kynaston for A Framework
for the Management and Disposition of Hospital Archives : The Alberta Medical Archives
Survey. -- Toronto : Hannah Institute for the History of Medicine, 1997. |
| 1997 |
| Cash Award | Elizabeth Denham for "Dealing with the
Records
of Closing Hospitals : The Calgary Area Health Authority" in Archivaria,
no. 41 (Spring 1996), pp. 78-87. |
Special Award
of Merit | Lorraine Mychajlunow and
Sharon Richardson
for Directory of Nursing Archival Resources in Alberta. -- Edmonton :
University of Alberta, 1996. |
| 1996 |
| Cash Award | Rick Klumpenhouwer for "Private Sector
Legal
Archives in Canada: A Source of Concern" in Law, society, and the state;
essays in modern legal history, edited by Louis A. Knafla and Susan W.S.
Binnie. University of Toronto Press, 1995. |
Special Award
of Merit | Susan Kooyman for "RAD and
the
Researcher" in Archivaria, 37, Spring 1994.
The City of Calgary for XV Olympic Winter Games inventories.
University of Calgary. Libraries. Special Collections Division for
Mapping the territory, a guide to the archival holdings Special
Collections, University of Calgary. Calgary: University of Calgary
Press, 1995.
University of Calgary. Libraries. Special Collections Division for The
George Ryga papers. Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 1995.
Bryan Corbett for "Archival Education: The experience of the Association of
Canadian Archivists" in Archival Issues, Journal of the Midwest Archives
Conference, vol.18, no.2, 1993. |
| 1995 |
| Cash Award | Award was not presented this
year. |
Special Award
of Merit | Brock V. Silversides, for
The face
pullers: photographing native Canadians, 1871 - 1939. Saskatoon: Fifth
House, 1994. |
| 1994 |
| Cash Award | Award was not presented this
year. |
Special Award
of Merit | Award was not presented this
year. |
| 1993 |
| Cash Award | Award was not presented this
year. |
Special Award
of Merit | Trude McLaren, Trevor
Livelton and
Bryan Corbett, University of Alberta Archives, for From the past to the
future: a guide to the holdings of the University of Alberta Archives.
Edmonton: University of Alberta Archives, 1992.
Susan M. Kooyman and Bonny Woelk, Glenbow Museum and Archives, for Glenbow
Archives: a guide to the holdings. Calgary: Glenbow Museum,
1992. |
| 1992 |
| Cash Award | Award was not presented this
year. |
Special Award
of Merit | Award was not presented this
year. |
| 1991 | | Cash
Award | Award was not
presented this year. |
Special Award
of Merit | Margery Tanner Hadley for
Guide to
Photographs: the fonds and collections of the Archives, Whyte Museum of the
Canadian Rockies.
Lorraine Mychajlunow and Keith Stotyn for A Guide to the Archives of the
United Church of Canada, Alberta and Northwest Conference. |
| 1990 |
| Cash Award | Vicki Lemieux for "Towards an integrated
approach
to public records legislation", presented at the 1989 Canadian ARMA Black Gold
Conference and Published in the conference proceedings. |
Special Award
of Merit | Whyte Museum of the
Canadian Rockies
(Archives) for Guide to manuscripts: the fonds and collections of the
Archives, Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies.
University of Calgary Libraries, Special Collections Division for Canadian
Archival Inventory Series. |
| 1989 (First year for
awards) |
| Cash Award | Rick Klumpenhouwer and Hermina
Joldersma for
editing and translating Hans Booms' article, "Society and the formation of a
documentary heritage: issues in the appraisal of archival source." |
Special Award
of Merit | Brian Owens and Claude
Roberto for
A guide to the archives of the Oblates of Mary Immaculate, Province of
Alberta.
Alberta Archives Council for "Alberta's archives needs assessment and planning
study report." |
More information about the Alan D. Ridge Publications Award
Awards
- Cash Award - One cash prize of $250 or prizes of varying amounts
- Special Award of Merit
Eligibility of Entrants
- Member of the archival or related profession such as: an employee or
volunteer in a recognized archival institution; an archivist emeritus; a
student in a recognized program of archival studies; or an administrator of a
recognized archival institution.
- Resident of the Province of Alberta.
- Consideration may be given to non-residents who write on topics specific
to archives in Alberta.
Types of Publications Eligible
- A scholarly work of research, opinion, analysis, etc. on some aspect of
archives studies, records management, archival institutions, or the archival
profession.
- Such a work may take the form of a book, brochure, manual, pamphlet, or
article in a periodical, journal, or other such publication, which has general
and public distribution.
- Eligible material must have been published in the preceding 24 months,
prior to January 1st of the current year.
Judging
- The works submitted shall be judged by a Committee of three past
presidents.
- Judges cannot consider works which they have either written or to which
they have given substantial direct assistance.
- In judging, consideration will be given to the quality of the work, the
depth of its supporting research, the extent of its distribution, and the
freshness of its approach.
- Judging to be completed by March 31 of each year.
- Award will be made at the Annual General Meeting of the Archives
Society of Alberta.
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