Browse the minutes of the June 8-10 SAA Council meeting here.

The Spring/Summer 2012 American Archivist is now available online; the print edition should arrive in your mailbox shortly. This issue features “The Inquisitor as Archivist, or Surprise, Fear, and Ruthless Efficiency in the Archives” by Jessie Sherwood; “The Lives of Others: East German State Security Service’s Archival Legacy” by Karsten Jedlitschka; “Crippling the Archives: Negotiating Notions of Disability in Appraisal and Arrangement and Description” by Sara White; “Community Archives and the Limitations of Identity: Considering Discursive Impact on Material Needs” by Cristine N. Paschild; “Leveraging Encoded Archival Description for Access to Digital Content: A Cost and Usability Analysis” by Jody L. DeRidder, Amanda Axley Presnell, and Kevin W. Walker; and “Hidden Collections within Hidden Collections: Providing Access to Printed Ephemera” by Rebecca Altermatt and Adrien Hilton. Also included are Helen R. Tibbo’s 2012 presidential address and Lora J. Davis’s Theodore Calvin Pease Award–winning student paper. A perspective, case study, review essay, and six book reviews round out the issue.

As of July 12, SAA’s special Beyond Borders conference rate at the Hilton San Diego Bayfront headquarters hotel is subject to availability. Click here for a list of comparable hotels nearby.

SAA Vice President/President-Elect Jackie Dooley seeks volunteers to serve on a newly created working group charged to “ensure that A Glossary of Archival and Records Terminology (Pearce-Moses, 2005) remains an enduring resource of the highest quality.” Deadline to volunteer: July 27. Read more here.

SAA granted full-view permission for more than 80 out-of-print publications in the HathiTrust last year. Bill Landis recently brought to SAA’s attention three more titles, which have since been opened for full view: The Directory of College & University Archives in the United States & Canada, Directory of Business Archives, and “Records Retention and Disposition Schedules: A Survey Report.” Check out these and other freely available SAA titles on the site.