Archival Awards
The Texas Historical Records Advisory Board (THRAB) invites nominations for its 2023 archival awards. THRAB grants awards in the categories of excellence, advocacy and distinguished service. Submit nominations by July 1, 2023. THRAB will announce award recipients in October during Texas Archives Month.
- The Archival Award of Excellence honors archival institutions and individuals in Texas who have made significant achievements in preserving and improving access to historical records in any format. Download: Archival Award of Excellence Nomination Form
- The Advocacy for Archives Award acknowledges an individual or organization that has made significant contributions to ensure the preservation and availability of Texas’s historical record. Download: Advocacy for Archives Award Nomination Form
- The David B. Gracy II Distinguished Archival Service Award recognizes an individual, archival institution, education program or nonprofit/government organization that has provided outstanding leadership, service or contribution to the archival profession in Texas.
Download: David B. Gracy Distinguished Archival Service Award Nomination Form
Questions? Send inquiries to thrab@tsl.texas.gov.
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David B. Gracy II Distinguished Archival Service Award
This award recognizes an individual, archival institution, education program, or nonprofit/government organization that has provided outstanding leadership, service or contribution to the archives profession in Texas.
Society of Southwest Archivists
Advocacy for Archives Award
This award acknowledges an individual or organization that has made significant contributions to ensure the preservation and availability of the historical record of Texas.
Texas Archival Resources Online (TARO)
Archival Award of Excellence
This award recognizes significant achievements in preserving and improving access to historical records in any format by a Texas archival institution and individual achievements.
Harry Ransom Center
Past Recipients:
Distinguished Archival Service Award
This award recognizes an individual, archival institution, education program, or nonprofit/government organization that has provided outstanding leadership, service or contribution to the archives profession in Texas.
2020
David B. Gracy II
Advocacy for Archives Award
This award acknowledges an individual or organization that has made significant contributions to ensure the preservation and availability of the historical record of Texas.
2021
Melleta Bell, Senior Archivist (retired), Archives of the Big Bend, Sul Ross University
2020
Hogg Foundation for Mental Health
Archival Award of Excellence
This award recognizes significant achievements in preserving and improving access to historical records in any format by a Texas archival institution and individual achievements.
2021
Individual: Kaitlyn Price, Registrar, Dallas Historical Society
2020
Individual: Travis Williams, Archivist and Special Collections Librarian, St. Edwards University
Institution: Texas Archive of the Moving Image (TAMI)
2019
Institution: C.L. Sonnichsen Special Collections, UTEP Library (El Paso, TX)
THRAB Coordinator, Jelain Chubb (center) presents the award to Head of Special Collections, Claudia Rivers
(right) and Assistant Head of Special Collections, Abbie Weiser (left). UTEP's Special Collections received the award
for their Casasola Project, which included a crowdsourcing effort to identify individuals in photos.
Individual: Brenda Lincke Fisseler, Lavaca County Archives
Lavaca County Clerk, Elizabeth Kouba (left), Archival Award of Excellence recipient Brenda Lincke Fisseler (center),
and THRAB Coordinator, Jelain Chubb (right) at the award ceremony held at the Lavaca County Courthouse Annex
in Halletsville. Photo by Jimmy Appelt.
[Press Release]
2018
Institution: Special Collections, University Libraries , University of North Texas (Denton, TX)
Morgan Gieringer, Head, Special Collections at UNT Libraries and THRAB member Linda Barrett
at the 2018 DFW Archives Bazaar. Barrett presented the Archival Award of Excellence to Gieringer
for their NBC5/KXAS (WBAP) Television News Archive Project.