I am pleased to announce that four Mudd find­ing aids have been awarded MARAC’s 2008 Fredric M. Miller Find­ing Aid Award. The award, which comes with a $250 cash prize, has been given to the Mudd find­ing aids as a group and was pre­sented at the Spring MARAC meet­ing last week. I sub­mit­ted a rep­re­sen­ta­tive sam­ple for each of Mudd’s major pro­cess­ing projects in 2007 — a list of the find­ing aids and projects is below. Please join me in con­grat­u­lat­ing the win­ners: Casey Bab­cock, Adri­ane Han­son, Jen­nie Cole, Dan Bren­nan, Ros­alba Var­allo, and Christie Lutz. This is also a nice bit of recog­ni­tion for the last sev­eral years of work on EAD and find­ing aids that involved many of us in RBSC Tech­ni­cal Ser­vices, espe­cially Cristela Garcia-Spitz and Don Thorn­bury and John Delaney in Firestone.

Find­ing Aid Award Winners:

NHPRC Eco­nom­ics Papers Pro­cess­ing Project:

W. Arthur Lewis Papers: pro­cess­ing and find­ing aid by Adri­ane Hanson.

New Jer­sey His­tor­i­cal Com­mis­sion Gen­eral Oper­at­ing Sup­port Grant:

H. Alexan­der Smith Papers: pro­cess­ing and find­ing aid by Casey Babcock.

Coun­cil on For­eign Rela­tions Pro­cess­ing and Dig­i­ti­za­tion Project:

Coun­cil on For­eign Rela­tions Dig­i­tal Sound Record­ings: pro­cess­ing, find­ing aid, and project man­age­ment by Jen­nie Cole.

Prince­ton Uni­ver­sity Archives Pro­cess­ing Project:

Woodrow Wil­son School of Pub­lic and Inter­na­tional Affairs Records: pro­cess­ing and find­ing aid by Dan Bren­nan and Ros­alba Var­allo, pro­cess­ing super­vi­sion by Christie Lutz.