So, congratulations to Bill Fliss, the keeper of Marquette University's Special Collection of J. R. R. Tolkien manuscripts, for winning this year's Hamer-Kegan Award, an honor granted by the Society of American Archivists for his work in digitizing, re-organising, and making far more accessible the thousands of pages of manuscripts in their Tolkien collection. Here's the link to a piece describing the honor and placing the award in context
https://www2.archivists.org/governance/handbook/section12-hamer
And here's a second link describing the reason why the committee judges Bill's work worthy of this recognition.
https://www2.archivists.org/recipients/philip-m-hamer–elizabeth-hamer-kegan-award-dr-william-fliss
A lot of Tolkien scholars from this point forward will find their work made easier by Bill's having conceived of this project and recruited the resources to see it through.
--John R.
--current reading: THE VIOLET APPLE by David Lindsay
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