Awards Criteria

This Award, named for Alan Stark, honors Alan's commitment to the AMIA, his contributions to the preservation of moving image archives, and his belief that the work done to preserve our audiovisual heritage is strengthened by the diversity of experts working in the field.  

The Alan Stark Award honors individuals who have made a significant contribution through their efforts on a special project or in a project's management that contributes to, and supports, the work of moving image archives and/or the operations of AMIA.   Examples of qualifying projects are projects that have advanced the field, advanced an institution, streamlined a workflow, improved an existing process, increased access to a collection, highlighted a collection or institution, helped preserve a collection, directly benefited the operations of AMIA, etc.

Nominees may be AMIA members or non-members. Nominations are only accepted from AMIA members.

The Alan Stark Award recipient is acknowledged at the AMIA Annual Conference, in the AMIA Newsletter and on the AMIA website. The award includes a complimentary conference registration and a cash prize of $1,000.


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* 1. Your Information.  This information is not released, the committee will use it to contact you with any questions.

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* 2. Nominee Information.
Please be sure to include either email or phone number for the nominee.   For blank fields, please use NA.

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* 3. NOMINATION/NOMINEE PROJECT
The title or short description of the special project and/or project management role the nomination is about.

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* 4. NOMINATION STATEMENT

This information will be used by the committee and will be used in the announcement of the Award.  Please describe how the nominee has made a significant contribution through their efforts on the special project or in project management described above, that contributes to, and supports, the work of moving image archives and/or the operations of AMIA.

Examples of qualifying projects are projects that have advanced the field, advanced an institution, streamlined a workflow, improved an existing process, increased access to a collection, highlighted a collection, highlighted an institution, helped preserve a collection, directly benefited the operations of the AMIA, etc.

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* 5. Other comments or information that might help the committee in considering this individual.

By submitting this Application, you are indicating that you have read the instructions for filing this award application, and that the information that has been provided is correct.

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