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2009 Emmett Leahy Award Recipient Announced
Orlando, Florida October 14, 2009. The Emmett
Leahy Award Committee is pleased to announce that
on October 14, 2009 Mariella Guercio received the
39th Emmett Leahy Award for Outstanding
Contributions to the Information and Records
Management Profession at the Annual Business
Meeting of the Institute of Certified Records Managers.
Named after Emmett J. Leahy, the Emmett Leahy
Award is presented annually to recognize an
individual whose contributions and outstanding
accomplishments have had a significant impact on
the records and information management
profession. The Emmett Leahy Award is
differentiated from other awards in the
information and records management profession in
that an awardee's individual contributions must
have moved the profession in a significant
direction it would not have otherwise moved
without the awardee's direct, personal
contribution. Other awards recognize
contributions such as membership in a
professional organization, demonstration of
industry service, authorship of papers and
presentations which are all commendable and
meritorious. In the case of the Emmett Leahy
Award these are not necessarily a threshold
requirement for Emmett Leahy Award consideration.
The Emmett Leahy Award Committee selected
Mariella Guercio as the 39th recipient of the
Emmett Leahy Award because of the impact her work
has had on the management and preservation of
electronic records. Currently the Chair of the
Master of Records Management and Archival Science
Program, Vice President Technology, and Provost
at the University of Urbino, Italy, Guercio has
had a major impact on records and information
management in Italy, Europe, and around the world:
· Over the past decade and a half she
developed innovative records systems for
organizations in the public and private sectors,
from banks to utility companies, and from
regional and city administrations to insurance companies.
· In 2000, while serving on an Italian
Parliamentary Committee drafting legislation
regulating public offices, she persuaded the
Committee to include in the legislation a
requirement to establish a records management
office, staffed by a records management
professional with graduate education in records
and archives management, in each department of
every level of government. This requirement has
had a profound effect on professional records
managers and the institutions they serve.
· In 2003 Guercio designed and developed
an entire graduate level program on Electronic
Records Management and Preservation that is
delivered by four universities, and was adopted
by the European Commission as the foundation of a
European Master’s Program in Electronic Records Management and Preservation.
· Since 1999 Guercio has delivered
records management training to more than 2800
records managers, archivists, and administrators
through continuing education courses along with
presenting courses on archival science, records
management, digital preservation, and archival
description to more than five hundred graduate
students while directing more than 70 graduate
theses on life cycle records and information management.
Guercio's impact on the records and information
management profession extends far beyond
Italy. Her records and information management
skills, knowledge, and experience have been
manifested in a number of different domains.
· As one of the six subject matter
experts who participated in the drafting of Model
Requirements for Electronic Records Management
(MoReq 1 and 2) for the European Commission, she
is widely recognized as having been the seminal
thought leader in framing these requirements.
· She has had a leading role in
influencing the European Union Cultural Affairs
Committee and the Forum for Information Society
to incorporate records management and
preservation of electronic records into their programs.
· She has been a 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.
· She has shared her knowledge, skill,
and experience in records and information
management around the world through workshops,
presentations, and lectures on records management
and the preservation of digital records. In
addition, she has published three books and
numerous articles in scholarly and professional
journals on records management, archival
education, and electronic records preservation.
A recurring theme in Guercio's highly visible
academic, public, and private records and
information management endeavors has been an
emphasis on the responsibility of records
professionals to articulate to the citizenry at
large and to those who govern that accountability
and transparency, democracy and justice depend on
good records, which in turn require a highly
educated community of trusted professionals to
manage these records throughout their life
cycle. This is a global emphasis that has no
geographic or political boundaries.
About the Emmett Leahy Award
The Emmett Leahy Award is the highest award for
individual accomplishment in the information and
records management profession. Given in honor of
Emmett Leahy, the renowned and legendary pioneer
of information and records management, this award
annually recognizes an individual an individual
whose contributions and outstanding
accomplishments have had a major impact on the
records and information management profession.
Selection of the award recipient is made by the
Emmett Leahy Award Committee that is composed of
the last ten winners of this prestigious award.
The Emmett Leahy Award is presented at the annual
meeting of the Institute of Certified Records
Managers that is held concurrently with the ARMA
International Annual Conference. Past winners
have included users, educators, archivists,
records managers, and consultants - both within
the United States and internationally. The
expenses of the Emmett Leahy Award Committee are
underwritten by the Huron Consulting Group as
part of its commitment to promoting and
recognizing excellence in records management.
The Emmett Leahy Award Committee is an
independent entity and is not a part of the
Institute of Certified Records Managers, ARMA
International, or Huron Consulting Group. The
selection of the annual Emmett Leahy Award
recipient is the exclusive responsibility of the Emmett Leahy Award Committee.
For more information visit
<http://www.emmettleahyaward.org>www.emmettleahyaward.org.
Dr. Luciana Duranti
Chair and Professor, Archival Studies
Director, The InterPARES Project www.interpares.org
Director, Digital Records Forensics Project www.digitalrecordsforensics.org
School of Library, Archival and Information Studies www.slais.ubc.ca
The University of British Columbia
The Irving K. Barber Learning Centre
Suite 470, 1961 East Mall
Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z1 CANADA
Tel: 604.822.2587
Fax: 604.822.6006
www.lucianaduranti.ca
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