The Paul Banks and Carolyn Harris Preservation Award (known informally as the Banks/Harris award), is awarded by the Association for Library Collections and Technical Services (ALCTS), a division of the
American Library Association
The American Library Association (ALA) is a nonprofit organization based in the United States that promotes libraries and library education internationally. It is the oldest and largest library association in the world, with 49,727 members ...
. The award was established to honor the memory of
Paul N. Banks and
Carolyn Harris, two early leaders in library preservation. The award consists of a citation and a $1,500 grant, donated by Preservation Technologies, L.P.
The award recognizes the contribution of a professional preservation specialist who has been active in the field of preservation or conservation for library or archival materials.
Past recipients
* 2001 Sally Buchanan—associate professor at the
University of Pittsburgh
The University of Pittsburgh (Pitt) is a public state-related research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The university is composed of 17 undergraduate and graduate schools and colleges at its urban Pittsburgh campus, home to the univers ...
School of Information Science.
* 2002
Ellen R. McCrady d.2008 — Editor and publisher of th
''Abbey Newsletter''for preservation professionals from 1975 to 2004 and th
''Alkaline Paper Advocate''from 1988 to 2008. She also conducted research regarding papermaking and acid testing.
* 2003 John F. Dean—head of the Department of Preservation and Conservation at
Cornell University} since its beginning in 1985.
* 2004
Janice Merrill-Oldham—Malloy-Rabinowitz Preservation Librarian at
Harvard University
Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of high ...
, overseeing the Weissman Preservation Center and the Preservation and Imaging Department.
* 2005 Paul Conway—professor in the
University of Michigan School of Information
The University of Michigan School of Information (UMSI or iSchool) is the informatics and information science school of the University of Michigan, a public research university in Ann Arbor, Michigan. It offers baccalaureate, magisterial, and doc ...
and has worked with
Yale University
Yale University is a Private university, private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the List of Colonial Colleges, third-oldest institution of higher education in the United Sta ...
and
Duke University after beginning his career at the
Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library
The Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library is a repository located on the north campus of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. The library houses archival materials on the life, career, and presidency of Gerald Ford, the 38th president of the ...
. His work focuses on digital preservation and electronic media.
* 2006 Gary Frost—conservator at the
University of Iowa
The University of Iowa (UI, U of I, UIowa, or simply Iowa) is a public research university in Iowa City, Iowa, United States. Founded in 1847, it is the oldest and largest university in the state. The University of Iowa is organized into 12 col ...
Libraries, leader in the field of library preservation for over 35 years.
* 2007 Walter Henry 2007 — conservator at the
Stanford University Libraries and Academic Information Resources, creator o
Conservation OnLineand th
Conservation DistList
* 2008 Janet Gertz—Director for Preservation, Columbia University Libraries, former chair of ALCTS' Preservation and Reformatting Section (PARS).
* 2009 Barclay W. Ogden—Head of the Preservation Department at the
University of California, Berkeley Library System
Thirty-one constituent and affiliated libraries combine to make the library system of the University of California, Berkeley the seventh largest research library by number of volumes in the United States.
As of 2021, Berkeley's library system ho ...
, leader in disaster planning.
* 2010
Michèle V. Cloonan—dean and professor of the Graduate School of Library and Information Science, Simmons College
* 2011 Roberta Pilette—Director of the Preservation Department and Chief Preservation Officer for the Yale University Library
* 2012 Julie Allen Page—Co-coordinator of th
'' California Preservation Program (CPP)''and th
''Western States & Territories Preservation Assistance Service (WESTPAS)''
* 2013 Randy Silverman—Preservation Librarian, University of Utah.
* 2014 James M. Reilly—Director, Image Permanence Institute.
* 2015 Jeanne Drewes—Chief of Binding and Collections Care Division, Library of Congress.
* 2016 Ellen Cunningham-Kruppa, associate director and Head of the Preservation and Conservation Division at the Harry Ransom Center, UT-Austin
* 2017 Karen Kiorpes, Preservation Librarian for the university at Albany, SUNY, University Libraries
* 2018 Nancy E. Kraft, Head of the Preservation Department at the University of Iowa,
* 2019 Paula De Stefano, the Barbara Goldsmith Curator for Preservation and head of the Preservation Department at New York University Libraries
* 2020 Jennifer Hain Teper of the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign,
*2021, will not be awarded.
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The Paul Banks and Carolyn Harris Preservation Award
American awards
Awards established in 2001