Small Museum Association
Awards Program & Nominations

The Small Museum Association, Inc. (SMA) is soliciting nominations for the annual Small Museum awards.  These awards will be presented at the SMA Annual Conference scheduled for February 25-27, 2007.  This year, two awards will be presented in the following categories:

• The Hunter-Burley Award for an individual’s outstanding contributions to the advancement of public access and professional growth for an individual institution;
• The Small Museum Association Award for an individual’s outstanding contributions to the advancement of funding for, professional growth within, and/or the accessibility of information to the small museum community on a regional or state level.

CRITERIA:

• The nominee must have attended at least one Small Museum Association conference.
• An individual may be nominated for only one award by the same nominator.
• The nominee must serve at an institution that is located in the Mid-Atlantic region and whose primary field of discipline is culture, history, heritage or natural science.  The award is for recognition of SMA peers, not political persons.
• The nominee must be an individual, not a staff or organization.
• Nominations are open to any level of museum staff including volunteers and board members.

STANDARDS:
The following general standards will be used to evaluate nominations for the Awards:

• Nominations will be evaluated in terms of the quality of the nominee’s contribution to the advancement of his or her institution or to the small museum community.  The nominee will be evaluated on his or her accomplishments, not plans for the future.
• Nominations based on contributions in professional growth, public programming and information accessibility will be evaluated more favorably than those based on financial contributions.

The mere act of fulfilling award requirements does not insure eligibility for an award.

No current members of the Small Museum Association Board of Directors or Annual Conference Planning Committee are eligible for either award.  A committee of 5 members of the SMA Board will evaluate all nominations for each award based on the criteria and standards described in the enclosed documents and select this year’s winner.

Please complete the application and send five copies to Tiffany Davis, College Park Aviation Museum, 1985 Cpl. Frank Scott Dr., College Park, MD 20740. NOMINATIONS MUST BE POSTMARKED BY December 1, 2006.

Incomplete nomination applications and applications received after the postmark deadline will not be considered. Please contact Tiffany Davis at 301-864-6029 or via email at tiffany.davis@pgparks.com for any questions.

Printable nomination questions (133 K PDF)

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