FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

iSchool at Drexel Adjunct Instructor Mark A. Matienzo Receives Emerging Leader Award
from the Society of American Archivists

CHICAGO—Mark A. Matienzo, digital archivist at Manuscript and Archives, Yale University Library, is the 2012 recipient of the Emerging Leader Award from the Society of American Archivists. The award will be presented at a ceremony during SAA’s Annual Meeting in San Diego, August 6‒11, 2012. Mantienzo currently serves as an adjunct instructor in The iSchool at Drexel, where he teaches Digital Preservation.

          Created in 2011, the Emerging Leader Award celebrates and encourages early career archivists who have completed archival work of broad merit, demonstrated significant promise of leadership, performed commendable service to the archives profession, or have accomplished a combination of these requirements.

          Matienzo has exhibited a remarkable record of achievement in a career that is eight years young. Matienzo played a critical role as the lead digital archivist on the Mellon-funded AIMS project, which developed a framework for the stewardship of born-digital archival materials within collecting repositories. The Award Committee also recognized Matienzo’s significant contributions to the ArchivesSpace project, which, with Mellon support, is integrating two successful archives information management tools—Archon and the Archivists’ Toolkit. Both of these projects have broad implications for the archives field and require a unique combination of vision and in-depth knowledge of the archival enterprise. Although many individuals participated in these undertakings, it was clear to the Committee that Mark has been instrumental to their success, using a combination of his archival knowledge, technical skills and leadership qualities.

Founded in 1936, the Society of American Archivists is North America’s oldest and largest national archives professional association. SAA’s mission is to serve the educational and informational needs of more than 6,000 individual and institutional members and to provide leadership to ensure the identification, preservation, and use of records of historical value. For more information, visit www.archivists.org.

Contact: Anne Hartman

312.606.0722 or [log in to unmask]