ARCHIVISTS’ TOOLKIT RECEIVES AWARD

The Archivists’ Toolkit (AT), an innovative open-source archival data management system developed through a collaboration among the NYU Division of Libraries, University of California, San Diego Libraries, and the Five Colleges, Inc. Libraries, has received the C.F.W. Coker Award from the Society of American Archivists.
    The AT, the first open-source archival data management system to provide broad, integrated support for the management of archives, is funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. According to Chris Burns, chair of the Coker Award Committee, “The Archivists’ Toolkit has already made a tremendous impact on archival practice and the promotion and adoption of descriptive standards.”
    Co-principal investigators for the project were NYU Dean of Libraries Carol A. Mandel and Brian E.C. Schottlaender, the Audrey Geisel University Librarian of UCSD Libraries.
—Barbara Jester