SMALL MUSEUM ASSOCIATION AWARDS PROGRAM & NOMINATIONS
Small Museum Association Annual Conference
February 26-28, 2006
Ocean City, MD

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 26-28, 2006.  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.

To receive a nomination form by email, please email Tiffany Davis at 
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