2014 Elections

Candidate Statements and Biographies for 2014 Elections

Vice Chair

Wendy Hagenmaier
Wendy Hagenmaier is the Digital Collections Archivist at the Georgia Tech Archives. She is currently the Outreach and Advocacy Manager for the Society of Georgia Archivists and serves on the steering committees for the Electronic Records Section and the Architectural Records Roundtable. She received her M.S.I.S. with a focus on digital archives and preservation from the University of Texas at Austin School of Information and her B.A. in English from Stanford University. Her areas of scholarly and professional interest include personal digital archiving as an outreach and advocacy tool for increasing awareness about the importance of digital archiving in society; the technological and intellectual property challenges of preserving and providing access to born-digital data and proprietary formats; and the puzzles of data stewardship and control in an increasingly terms-of-service-bound world.

Candidate Statement:

With so many pressing local, national, and international issues facing the archival community and information professionals at large, I believe it is crucial for archivists to feel that they have a voice in advocating for the profession and the future of information stewardship. From its Advocacy Toolkit to its blog and action alerts, the Issues and Advocacy Roundtable is doing fantastic, important work to ensure that archivists stay informed and to support SAA in adopting proactive, thoughtful strategies regarding current issues and challenges. I would love to have the opportunity to help lead IART's efforts. As Vice-Chair, I would partner with the Chair and Steering Committee to guide IART's work to keep the membership aware of laws and legislation affecting archives, to increase diversity, to open access for disabled researchers and archivists, and to help archivists advocate for their importance within their workplaces. I would be particularly excited to create connections between IART and other SAA component groups, to support Council and the Committee on Advocacy and Public Policy in strategizing about SAA's role and responsibility in addressing issues and advocating for our profession, and to foster global alliances with information professionals beyond the confines of SAA.

 
Steering Committee

Gabrielle Dudley
Gabrielle M. Dudley is Instruction Archivist and QEP Librarian at the Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library (MARBL) at Emory University and is currently the Chair-Elect for the Archives and Archivists of Color Roundtable. She holds a MLIS and MA in Public History from the University of South Carolina and a BS from the University of Montevallo. In her words, “ I would like to be a member of the Issues and Advocacy Roundtable Steering Committee because I believe that archivists should not only be good stewards, but also advocates for our institutions, our collections, and our profession. I am very interested in working with fellow archivists to further develop strategies for “everyday advocacy” so that we can effectively address larger issues. I hope to do my part to ensure that law makers and members of the general public understand the purpose and value of archives institutions and the archival profession.”

Christine George
Christine Anne George is the Archivist & Faculty Services Librarian at the Charles B. Sears Law Library at SUNY Buffalo. She has a BA from Bard College, a JD from St. John’s University School of Law, and a MSIS from the University of Texas at Austin School of Information. Her research interest is the intersection of law and archives. She has written for Issues & Advocacy’s blog on advocacy in the courts (Blog Entry 23: Agreeing on Advocacy) and the Belfast Project (Blog Entry 24: The Belfast Project, Arrests, and Archival Worse Case Scenarios). She would like to continue to work with the I&A Steering Committee to bring attention to issues and situations affecting archives and continue discussing how best to advocate for the profession.

Tammi Kim
Tammi Kim is an Assistant Librarian in the Manuscript and Archives Department at the University of Delaware where she works with political papers.  She previously worked as a Processing Assistant for the Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research and Studies at the University of Georgia. In 2011, Tammi graduated from UCLA with her MLIS in archival studies and management. She also holds a BA in British and American Cultural Studies from Georgia State University. Tammi has been a member of SAA since 2009 and a member of the Issues & Advocacy Roundtable since 2012.

Statement:

I believe that advocacy is an essential aspect of every archivist’s job. At some point in time, every archivist is called on to explain, educate, and justify the existence of our collections, repositories, and the profession to the public and to stakeholders. To this end, it is important for me to advocate for the “return on investment” I do as a processing archivist; how do I demonstrate how archives and archivists make a difference to the broader spectrum of society and preserving history? Advocacy is particularly important in times of lean budgets and organizational restructuring in institutions.  Being elected to the IART Steering Committee will provide an avenue where I can collaborate with other archivists to disseminate existing information and resources and develop tools for other professionals to use. I am interested in continuing to develop the advocacy toolkit and to liaise with other groups inside and outside of SAA to address issues of advocacy and outreach.

Alison Stankrauff
Alison Stankrauff has served as the Campus Archivist at the Indiana University South Bend campus since 2004. She is a lone arranger there, and inherited an archives that had not had an archivist for ten years. She has created all of the archives’ policies and has seen outreach as one of her primary goals. Reference requests have grown exponentially since she got to IU South Bend, much to her gratification. Previous to her current position, Alison served as a reference archivist at the American Jewish Archives, and previous to that, as a technician at the Reuther Labor Archives at Wayne State University. She interned at the Rabbi Franklin Archives at Temple Beth El in metropolitan Detroit. Alison graduated with her Masters in Library Science with Archival Administration concentration in 2002, and has a Bachelors degree in history from Antioch College.

Statement:

I’m Alison Stankrauff, Archivist and Associate Librarian at Indiana University South Bend. I’m committed to being vigilant for the archival profession and the archival record that we collect, protect, make accessible. When either of those are in danger, I believe it’s my duty to do my part to personally advocate for what’s at stake – and motivate others to do the same – with a collective voice.

Voting is Closed