The Filby Award for Genealogical Librarianship Nomination Form

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The Filby Award for Genealogical Librarianship recognizes a librarian with at least five (5) years’ experience whose primary focus is genealogy and local history and who is employed in a public, academic or special library.

Judges use the following Criteria:

Significant contributions to patron access to information or to the preservation of historical records.
Development of an imaginative reference tool or similar outstanding contribution of enduring consequence that fills the gaps in existing information, accuracy, scope, or usefulness of genealogical and local history materials.
Publication of a book or a body of articles that has contributed significantly to the field of genealogy or local history and that are of an interpretive nature.
Other activities that have significantly advanced genealogy and local history.
Work that has encouraged others to be innovative in the field.

Deadline is 15 December annually.

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Justification for Award

Please submit a paragraph highlighting the significance of this nominee's contributions. This would be read aloud at the presentation ceremony in the event of your nominee winning the award.

A copy of your responses will be emailed to the address you provided.

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