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| The Dan and Kathy Leab Award was established to acknowledge the contribution of archivists who seldom have the opportunity of being recognized outside their institutions. The Leab Award is presented annually to one individual chosen by the AMIA Board of Directors with advice and consultation from the association's Awards Committee Each year's Leab Award recipient receives a plaque of appreciation from AMIA, a cash prize of $1,000, and recognition in the AMIA Newsletter and during the AMIA Conference.
Award recipients have worked in a moving image archive or with a moving image collection, and have made a significant contribution to their institution or the field as a whole. Contributions are either in the form of a notable achievement or special project, or through the noteworthy performance of daily tasks carried out over a long period of time. The award is given without regard to AMIA membership. The award is funded through the generous support of Dan and Kathy Leab, long-time patrons of the archives and library community and long-time friends of AMIA. Dan Leab was the keynote speaker at AMIA's 1991 conference in New York, where he spoke on the relationship between film and history. He is a professor at Seton Hall University, and he and Kathy Leab own American Books Prices Current, the authoritative publication on antiquarian books. Upon receiving the donation that established the award in 1995, AMIA President Eddie Richmond thanked the Leabs "...not only for your contributions to AMIA, but for your belief that collecting, preserving and providing access to moving images is important work which should be recognized. Previous
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