Council Exemplary Service Award: SAA America250 Task Force

WHEREAS, the Society of American Archivist’s America250 Task Force has demonstrated exceptional service to the archives profession and the Society of American Archivists; and 
  
WHEREAS, the task force quickly mobilized to develop ideas and goals to center archives and records in the nationwide commemorations of the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence; and

WHEREAS, the task force collaborated with colleagues at Yale University to record and broadcast the symposium, “Democracy, Civic Education, and the American Archive”; and

WHEREAS, the task force developed the “250 for the 250th” collaborative profession-wide initiative that invited each and every repository of records and archives across every US state, district, and territory to contribute one document that exemplifies one story in our shared history for inclusion in a freely available online portal; 

  
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that SAA’s America250 Task Force be honored with the Council Exemplary Service Award for raising the profile of archives with the public by empowering archives and repositories—large and small—across the US to showcase the many histories that we safeguard.