David B. Gracy II, Governor Bill Daniel Professor, was honored at the August Society of American Archivists Conference held in Austin. David received the "Council Exemplary Service Award." Created by the SAA Council in 1980 the award recognizes a special contribution to the association or the profession, and is given on occasion when the situation warrants special recognition.

Full text of the SAA press release:

David B. Gracy II of UT-Austin Honored by Society of American Archivists

CHICAGO—David B. Gracy II of the University of Texas, Austin, is the 2009 recipient of the Council Exemplary Service Award from the Society of American Archivists (SAA). He was presented with the award on August 14, 2009, during ARCHIVES 2009, the Joint Annual Meeting of SAA and the Council of State Archivists, held at the Hilton Hotel in Austin, Texas.

The award is given for outstanding service to SAA and the archives profession. Gracy is the Governor Bill Daniel Professor in Archival Enterprise at UT-Austin, which he joined in 1986. He previously worked as an archival assistant at the Texas State Archives and as assistant professor at Georgia State University. He has taught archives education courses at the Modern Archives Institute, the Georgia Archives Institute, and the Western Archives Institute. The selection committee also noted his work as the director of the William and Margaret Kilgarlin Center for Preservation of the Cultural Record at UT’s School of Information.

Gracy is being honored for his 50-year career in the archives profession and his work as a teacher, administrator, researcher, historian, editor, and “as an advocate and ambassador for archives.” He has served as president of the Society of American Archivists and as president of the Academy of Certified Archivists. Gracy is the author of Archives and Manuscripts: Arrangement and Description, published by SAA, and the editor of the Libraries & the Cultural Record journal.

Founded in 1936, the Society of American Archivists is North America’s oldest and largest national archival professional association. SAA’s mission is to serve the educational and informational needs of more than 5,500 individual and institutional members and to provide leadership to ensure the identification, preservation, and use of records of historical value.

For more information, visit the SAA website