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Now accepting nominations for the Popular Culture Association/American

Culture Association

2013 Electronic Reference Site Award



The Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association sponsors

this prestigious award each year along with literary and film awards.

This award recognizes the growth and importance of new academic

formats. Award winners will be announced at the PCA/ACA annual

convention in Washington, DC in 2013 and posted on the PCA/ACA website

at http://www.h-net.org/~pcaacca/ and on other appropriate websites,

and in other media forums. Recipients need not be present at the

conference to receive the award.



Submissions and Nominations Procedures:

The policies and procedures for the Electronic Awards are similar to

all the other awards with a focus on quality and relevancy.  The award

in a particular year would look at the submissions of websites created

over a three year period. The deadline for receipt of materials to be

considered is January 7, 2013.  The subjects of the site should be

relevant to Popular and American Culture.



The criteria for judgment by the committee would include: Quality of

research/scholarship, Use of hypertext/networking of electronic

medium, Use of Supplementary/Secondary Materials, Contribution to

Popular and American studies scholarship, Breadth of archived

material, Ease of searching, Updatability

For nominating sites for the PCA/ACA Best Electronic Reference Site

award, please contact Paul Booth at [log in to unmask] In your

nomination, please include the website address, the subject of the

site, and contact information for the nominator/nominate.

Self-nominations welcome.



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Online resources for film/TV studies may be found at ScreenSite

http://www.ScreenSite.org