If you’ve ever wanted to contribute to the behind-the-scenes publication of an SAA book or American Archivist article as a peer reviewer, attend the Peer Review Forum on May 19 at 12:00 p.m. CT!

April 28, 2022—The SAA Council has approved the Strategic Plan and Actions and Timelines dashboard for fiscal years 2023-2025.

See the Strategic Plan FY 23-25 here and review the new Actions and Timelines dashboard here.

April 11, 2022—Join Jennifer Meehan, head of the Eberly Family Special Collections Library at Penn State University, for a conversation with author Scott Cline about his new book, Archival Virtue: Relationship, Obligation, and the Just Archives, published by SAA, on Thursday, April 21, at 12:00 pm CT.

April 11, 2022—The SAA Foundation Board seeks comments by April 29 on a draft of the new SAA Foundation Strategic Plan for fiscal years 2023–2025.

The Foundation Board began drafting its first strategic plan in fall 2021, following recommendations from development consultants to further the foundation's growth. This proposed draft gathers both ongoing and new activities, with many connections to the SAA Strategic Plan and the new SAA Work Plan on Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility.

April 5, 2022—A new blog post has been added to Off the Record, the SAA Leaders blog hosted by the SAA President. In "Community is Not Neutral," Courtney Chartier shares her President's Message, which appeared in the March/April 2022 issue of Archival Outlook. Read the blog post here.

April 5, 2022—Does your archives have an infrastructure project or a major initiative that needs federal funding support? Last year, Congress brought back “earmarks” as part of the appropriations process and at least two projects put forth by SAA members were successful in seeing their projects (totaling $1.1 million!) directly funded by Congress. Members of Congress can once again direct spending to specific projects or entities in their states and districts this year.

March 30, 2022—The results of SAA's 2022 election are in! The following individuals have been elected to serve:

Read the latest issue of Archival Outlook! In the March/April 2022 issue, Sarah Polirer talks about the new SAA book Managing Business Archives, Kathryn Allamong Jacob reflects on special donor connections at the Schlesinger Library at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, and the SAA Dataverse invites submissions of datasets about archives.