2009 Emmett Leahy Award

The Emmett Leahy Award Committee has announced that Mariella Guercio is the recipient of the 2009 award “because of the impact her work has had on the management and preservation of electronic records”. It seems fitting therefore to post the news to our blog. Given in honour of Emmett Leahy, the renowned USA pioneer of information and records management, the annual award recognizes an individual whose contributions and outstanding accomplishments have had a major impact on the records and information management profession.

Mariella Guercio, the 39th recipient of the award, is currently Chair of the Master of Records Management and Archival Science Program, Vice President Technology, and Provost at the University of Urbino, Italy. Her many achievements include work on the drafting of MoReq 1 and 2, co-director of digital preservation projects for the European Commission Electronic Research, Preservation and Access Networks (ERPANET) and the European Union Cultural, Artistics, and Scientific Knowledge for Preservation, Access, and Retrieval (CASPAR) - the latter is intended to establish a digital preservation infrastructure for Europe.

A full announcement can be seen at http://emmettleahyaward.org