SAA Election 2015

Sixteen candidates vying for four different offices are slated for SAA’s 2015 ballot. The candidate elected vice president will serve a one-year term beginning in August 2015 and then will become SAA’s 72nd president in 2016–2017. The candidate elected treasurer will serve a three-year term beginning in August and running through the 2018 SAA Annual Meeting. There are three available seats on the Council. Those elected will serve three-year terms beginning in August and running through the 2018 Annual Meeting. The three candidates elected to the 2016 Nominating Committee will serve one-year terms beginning immediately.

The complete slate is listed in the box on the right. Click on each candidate's name to read a brief bio along with his or her response to the questions (below) posed by this year's Nominating Committee.

Vice President/President-Elect: Describe your vision to raise the profile of archives and archivists and how you would leverage the strategic plan to move this forward. 

Treasurer: How could you as treasurer help simultaneously ensure the financial well being of SAA and bring more value to members?

Council: How would you utilize your skills and experience to help make SAA thrive in an environment that expects more communication, collaboration, and demonstrated action?

Nominating Committee: What will be your criteria for choosing a slate of nominees, and how will those help SAA in its mission?

These questions were developed by SAA’s 2015 Nominating Committee: Chair Erin O'Meara, Cristela Garcia-Spitz, Eira Tansey, and Council members Geoffrey Huth and Michelle Light.

Any eligible member of SAA may also be placed on the ballot by submitting a petition signed by fifty individual members; petitions must be received at the SAA office in Chicago by February 10, 2015.

The online ballot will be administered by VoteNet Solutions.

Please note the following:

• All full individual members, student members, and primary contacts of institutional members who are in good standing on February 28, 2015, will be eligible to vote in the 2015 Election. Members who join on or after March 1, 2015, will be eligible to vote in the 2016 Election.
• SAA staff will export and upload voter data to the online ballot system during the first week of March. Voters will be able to access their online ballot between March 13 and April 13, 2015, via their SAA username and password as recorded in the SAA database at the time of the data export.
• Members are strongly encouraged to visit www.archivists.org/login.asp and log in to the SAA website to verify access to the system. If you do not know your login information, you may click on the specified link on that page to retrieve it via email. If you have any difficulty, please call us toll-free within the US at 866-722-7858 or 312-606-0722 for further assistance.
• If you wish to change your username and password for the purposes of the SAA Election, you must do so prior to 5:00 p.m. CST on February 28, 2015.

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It's never too early to submit names of prospective candidates for next year's election. Click here.