March 24, 2021—On March 16, at the beginning of National Sunshine Week, House Oversight and Reform Committee Chair Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) introduced the “Presidential Records Preservation Act” (HR 1929), which would update the 1978 Presidential Records Act by requiring the President, Vice President, and other senior White House officials to “make and preserve records” that document the official activities of the President.

On behalf of the SAA Executive Director Search Committee, please share with your professional networks the Executive Director Position Profile, which can be accessed by downloading the PDF.

SAA is now offering expanded access to several SAA books via Amazon Kindle with reduced prices! These books—which address archival theory and perspectives on topics of justice, ethics, and privacy as well as how-to guides for specific facets of archival work—are already available digitally in PDF and epub (Adobe Digital Editions) formats in the SAA Bookstore. The addition of Kindle gives readers more flexibility to enjoy great books in the format they prefer.

This issue of Archival Outlook features a special section in which Aprille McKay, Eira Tansey, Peter Hirtle, and Bryan Whitledge weigh in on Ahmad v. University of Michigan, a case about whether archival papers that are closed under a donor agreement are still subject to FOIA.

Dear Reader,

The SAA journal American Archivist is going completely digital! Volume 83, no.2 (Fall/Winter 2020) is the last issue published in a paper format. 

Articles in American Archivist vol. 83, no. 2, cover a range of topics: Ciaran B.

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