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Robert Harriman and Jeffrey Field are being honored in recognition of their outstanding efforts to promote, coordinate and manage the United States Newspaper Program (USNP), a collaborative national effort spanning a quarter of a
century bringing scholars, historians, researchers, librarians and archivists from 50 states and two territories together to
inventory, catalog and preserve the newsprint record of a nation. They built a very large and successful program through strong organizational and communication skills, emphasizing the development of local leadership among participants and building local as well as national networks. They worked to assure the microfilm produced met national standards including preservation practice. Field helped develop the national standard for newspaper preservation microfilming. Harriman played a central role in the development and publication of imaging standards and the construction and maintenance of a national
newspaper bibliographic database. The program serves as a model of how to run a large collaborative project successfully.

Field and Harriman participated in standards development and worked closely with project managers to assure that microfilm produced with combined National Endowment for the Humanities and local funding would meet national standards and library and archive preservation practice. In addition to his leadership role in bringing together preservation scientists to formulate a research agenda, Field contributed to the development of the national standard for newspaper preservation microfilming. Harriman participated in the development and publication of newspaper imaging standards and played a central role in the construction and maintenance of a national newspaper bibliographic database. The project produced microfilm that is available to library and archive patrons everywhere and now is also being digitized to make it accessible online.