Please click on the candidate's name to access their candidate statement:
Vice-Chair
Barbara A. Mathe
Gerrianne Schaad
Recording Secretary
Rachel Chatalbash
Melissa Gonzalez
Newsletter Editor
Hillary Bober
Madeleine Thompson
Web Liaison
Supriya Wronkiewicz
We have a great slate of candidates for the 2014 election! One candidate is running for co-chair and we have nine candidates for steering committee. Watch for the online election link from SAA to make your final selections.
Co-Chair (running unopposed)
Leslie Van Veen McRoberts
Thank you for considering me for the position of Co-Chair for the Women Archivists Roundtable; I am looking forward to expanding my experience within the SAA and am elated at the opportunity to contribute. Currently...
In preparation for the 2014 SAA Annual Meeting in August, attached are proposed changes to the ATART bylaws and candidates for election to the ATART steering committee, in PDF format.
Candidate for Vice Chair/Chair Elect
Write in candidate
Candidate for Steering Committee (Vote for two)
Cliff Hight
Biographical Statement:
Cliff Hight has been the university archivist and an assistant professor at the Kansas State University Libraries since 2011. His primary stewardship is the preservation and accessibility of historically-important university records in all formats. He holds an MSIS in archives and records administration and an MA in history from the University at Albany,...
Candidate for Vice Chair/Chair/Immediate Past Chair (1 position):
Jennifer Mitchell
Biography: Jennifer Mitchell is Head of Manuscripts Processing at the Louisiana State University’s Hill Memorial Library. Jennifer supervises the processing of manuscripts collections and for the last year has been working on a project to improve the documentation and description of hidden collections in advance of the implementation of ArchivesSpace. Prior to coming to LSU, Jennifer worked as an Archives...
The Visual Materials Cataloging and Access Roundtable will be holding elections electionically and outide of the annual meeting at SAA. Nomiees are currents members of SAA and VMCAR and must be present at the annual meeting in August. Cathy Martyniak will take over the chair from Wendy Pflug at the annual meeting in August 2014.
Vice-Chair/ Chair-Elect Candidate: Shannon Erb, Moving Image Digitization Specialist at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum (Nashville, TN)
About Shannon:
I...
Rachel Appel
Biography
I am the Digital Collections Librarian at Bryn Mawr College in the Special Collections department within the libraries. Prior to this position, I worked for two years as the Digital Asset Manager at UT Austin where I also received my master's in information studies with a specialization in digital archives and preservation. I received my BA from Smith College in film studies with a minor in history. I have been an SAA member since 2010.
As the Digital Collections...
The SAA Metadata and Digital Objects Roundtable (MDOR) is now accepting applications for its annual Roundtable Internship.
The internship begins August 2014 and runs through July 2015. The intern will assist the co-chairs and steering committee of this large and dynamic group in a variety of tasks and initiatives to promote discussion, education and collaboration in MDOR's work to foster access, management, and preservation of archival digitization and digital objects. The estimated...
We have one candidate for EAD Roundtable Co-Chair this year and three candidates for one Steering Committee Member position. Please read the following candidate statements and don't forget to cast your votes once the electronic ballots go out!
Co-Chair candidate:
Ruth Kitchin Tillman
Metadata Librarian, NASA Goddard Library (Cadence Group)
Education and Experience: Ruth Kitchin Tillman earned her MLS with a focus in archives from the University of Maryland in December...
This year we are electing a junior Co-Chair and two steering committee members,
Click Here to learn more about each nominee.
Check out WAR on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/WARchivists! Then, head over to https://twitter.com/WomenArchivists and follow @WomenArchivists to participate in live tweets and discussions!
Agenda:
1. Subcommittee reports
2. Final version of 3-year plan
3. Archival Outlook article draft
4. Discussion of RAAC activities at SAA in August
5. How to handle new membership year and required subcommittee participation
The Human Rights Archives Roundtable is seeking nominations for the positions of Co-Chair and Web Liaison, both 2 year terms. Help us plan for the coming year, engage members, manage our web presence, and organize our participation in the annual meeting. If you are interested, please submit a brief bio and candidate statement to Theresa Polk at tepolk@gmail.com by Friday, May 30.
For more information about the Human Rights Archives Roundtable, visit our Wordpress blog or our Twitter account, @...
The Research Libraries Roundtable is requesting nominations for Vice Chair/Chair Elect! The Vice Chair/Chair Elect serves a two-year term, serving in year one as Vice Chair and in year two as Chair.
The mission of the RLRT is to promote discussion and collaboration on initiatives and research projects that affect archivists working in a research library context.
Here’s the information we need for each nomination:
candidate name
brief bio
statement of interest
photo (optional...
The Archival History Roundtable invites nominations for individuals to help lead the Roundtable's activities for 2014-2015. We are seeking candidates for the following positions:
Vice Chair
Steering Committee member (three positions available)
The Vice Chair/Chair elect serves a one year term as Vice Chair (2014-2015) and then will serve as Chair for 2015-2016. Steering Committee members serve a one year term.
Candidates must be members of SAA and the Archival History Roundtable. This is a...
Want to make a difference? Want some great networking opportunities while you're at it? This is the second call for nominations! The deadline is May 30th, less than a week away.
We have a 3-year opening and one single year opening on the MDOR steering committee, and a 2-year opening for the Co-Chair position (with a possible 3rd year on the steering committee).
Who's interested? Feel free to nominate yourself. If you nominate someone else, please be sure they are amenable to serving.
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Check out WAR's blog, which features interviews, book reviews, announcements, and news.
In honor of Preservation Week this week, the Section's Poster is now available. Please download and share!
How to deny scholars access to historical archives in the digital age
China's Foreign Ministry curtails access to declassified historic archives
China restricts academic access to historical archives
RAAC Steering Committee meeting minutes from the April 8, 2014 meeting are available online at:
Meeting Minutes
Agenda:
1. Updates on obtaining volunteers/ which subcommittees still need volunteers? (5 minutes)
2. Subcommittee reports required one week prior to call for all future conference calls (5 minutes)
3. Updates from Subcommittees re: contacting SAA component groups (10 minutes)
4. Updates from chairs re: Archival Outlook, SAA Conference RAAC meeting, Steering Committee meeting at SAA (5 minutes)
5. Discussion of what to do with survey data (5 minutes)
6. Discussion of 3-year...
The Technical Subcommittee for Encoded Archival Description (TS-EAD) and the Schema Development Team welcome comments on the gamma release of the EAD3 schema. This will be the final draft release prior to the official release of EAD3 this spring.
The gamma release includes a significantly revised and improved Relax NG schema. A W3C schema version is also available for testing. New to this release is a separate schema that does not include the <relations> element, available as both Relax...
The Regional Archival Associations Consortium (RAAC) Subcommittees are looking for volunteers for their first projects!
To volunteer, please contact the Subcommittee Chair listed after each Subcommittee description.
For any other questions regarding the RAAC, please contact the RAAC Co-Chairs Rachel Chatalbash (rachel.chatalbash@yale.edu) and Amanda Focke (afocke@rice.edu).
Advocacy Subcommittee (Tessa Beers, New England Archivists, chair)
Description: The role of the...
The Winter 2014 issue of Descriptive Notes, the newsletter of the Description Section, is now available online.
