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Win an iPad 2!

Through February 6, 2012, SAA is fielding a comprehensive online Member Needs and Satisfaction Survey. The survey provides SAA members with an opportunity to share feedback on all Society programs and services—and help shape the future of SAA. It’s one of the most important activities you can undertake to ensure that SAA’s work on your behalf meets your needs and expectations. Respondents who complete the survey, estimated to take 30 minutes, will be entered into drawings for a range of prizes:

  • Grand Prize: Apple iPad 2
  • 5 Second-Place Prizes: $50 voucher redeemable for SAA products and services
  • 100 Runner-Up Prizes: SAA Anniversary Tin

All SAA member have received a personalized email notification containing the survey URL. If you have not received yours, please contact Brian Doyle (SAA Director of Member & Technical Services) for assistance.

Call for Student Paper and Poster Presentations

The 2012 Student Program Subcommittee is accepting proposals for two special sessions—a paper session and a poster session—dedicated to student scholarship during SAA’s Annual Meeting in San Diego, August 6-11, 2012. Work from both master’s and doctoral students will be considered. Proposals that address the program theme are especially encouraged.  Proposal deadline: February 1, 2012. Read more and submit your proposal here. 

Go "Beyond Borders" in 2012!...Plan Now to Exhibit in San Diego

The Beyond Borders Expo is the place for archives, records, and IT professionals to learn about your products and services, ask questions, and provide their marketplace perspectives. The Expo brings together – in one place and at one time – the purchasing decision makers at the local, state, and national levels.  Take advantage of their great ideas – and share a few of your own!

American Archivist Online Supplement

Click here to take a sneak peek at content in the first-ever supplement to the American Archivist.

January 2012 Council Meeting Agenda

The SAA Council's January 2012 Meeting Agenda is now available.

Making Waves with “I Found It” Contest

Becky Church, archivist at the Surfing Heritage Foundation Museum, is barreling ahead with the “I Found It In The Archives”  contest at her repository. The San Clemente Times ran a feature about it on Jan. 4 (click here to read “Finding Tales from the Archives”). Hurray for Becky!  Submit your entry for the national competition by March 2, 2012, to saahq@archivists.org.

Petition Drive Underway to Create Commission on Digitization of Federal Holdings

A petition drive is underway asking the Obama administration to create a commission that would answer – within one year – such questions as:  What are our federal holdings? What would it take to digitize them? How much would it cost? What are the economic and non-economic benefits? Deadline: January 20. Read more here. Sign on here .

IMLS Funds EAC-CPF Workshops and Scholarships

SAA, the University of Virginia Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities (IATH), and the Simmons College Graduate School of Library and Information Science have joined forces under an Institute for Museum and Library Services grant ("Building a National Archival Authorities Infrastructure") to provide training on Encoded Archival Context: Corporate Bodies, Persons, and Families. Learn more about this project here.  Please complete this application to be considered for one of the 20 scholarships available in this workshop.

Toast the New Year with the Latest Archival Outlook

The Jan./Feb. Archival Outlook tackles the challenges of collecting faculty papers in the digital age, keeping cool with wireless environmental monitoring, who develops questions for the certification exam, and much more! Click here to read online. The print version will be mailed later this month.

2012 Research Forum: Call For Participants / Call for Presentations

Join us for the 6th Annual SAA Research Forum: “Foundations and Innovations”!  Participants’ enthusiastic response to the past four Research Forums confirms that the full spectrum of research activities—from “pure” research to applied research to innovative practice—is of interest and value to the archives community. The 2012 Research Forum will build on previous success by continuing with a full day of presentations. Deadline for submission of abstracts: May 1, 2012.

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