Please join the Archival History Section on Thursday, May 21st at 2PM Eastern / 1PM Central / 12PM Mountain / 11AM Pacific for our annual meeting!
This meeting will cover:
A summary of this past year's section business, including recaps of our winter and spring lectures and the launch of the Archival History Section writing group;
An update from our SAA section liaison;
The announcement of the Archival History Article Award winner;
An update on the 2026 elections and greetings...
Regardless of what institution we work for, we all have the shared experience of archives education. Those long days (and nights) of studying archival theory and principles. What most of us found, however, is that when we started our career in business archives, we had to adapt what we’d learned to the needs of our particular organization. The realities of the corporate world, more often than not, require us to take our knowledge of archival best practices and customize solutions that fit our...
The Collection Management Section will be holding its spring webinar and annual meeting together this year on May 20 from 2-3:30pm ET. Steering committee members and invited speakers will present on the Guidelines for Standardized Holdings Counts and Measures for Archival Repositories and Special Collections Libraries. Both CMS and the Rare Books and Manuscripts Section (RBMS) of ACRL are collaborating on a joint revision of the standard. Audience members will have the opportunity to learn...
The Reference, Access, and Outreach Section (RAO) of the Society of American Archivists (SAA) invites all to join us for the 2023 Annual Meeting and Marketplace of IDEAs on Friday, July 14, 2023 @ 4pm EDT/3pm CDT/2pm MDT/1pm PDT.
Registration: https://societyofamericanarchivists-316.my.webex.com/weblink/register/r71b585693f72fb4cead69ac4c688f207
Proposals to present as part of the Marketplace of IDEAS are still being accepted! Topics focused on the RAO sub-committee areas of Teaching with...
Thank you to all of our excellent candidates for participating in the 2026 Native American Archives Section election.
You will be voting for:
One Vice Chair/Chair-Elect, for a two-year term
Three Steering Committee members, for a two-year term
One Secretary, for a two-year term.
Ballots will be managed by SAA staff. Please keep an eye on your inbox for when the ballots open!
Vice Chair/Chair-Elect Candidates
The following candidate is unning for the Vice Chair/ Chair-Elect position...
“The pandemic has been a horror,” says Rachel Mattson, Curator of the Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies. One of the projects that has kept the Tretter staff connected, supported, engaged — and able to support a wide range of research inquiries — throughout the pandemic is a project organized around a Twin Cities public access television show, GAZE-TV.GAZE-TV ran from 1986 until Pride season 1992, and then as Green And Yellow (GAY) TV until Pride...
The Technical Subcommittee for Encoded Archival Description (TS-EAD) and the Schema Development Team welcome comments on the beta release of the revised EAD schema.
The beta release is a completely re-written Relax NG schema. A W3C schema version is also available for testing. This version addresses most of the feedback received during the alpha comment period. A few unresolved issues remain, all of which can be reviewed on the project's GitHub repository issue tracker.
The schema versions...
In April 2019, the Joint Working Group on Issues and Awareness offered the webinar "Archival Advocacy at Home Preparing and Messaging for Visiting District Congressional Offices."
To view this webinar, please click the following link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-qUNEi-K3Vm8SIqAY0XUM3MJ-BRMnkHU/view?usp=sharing
The Technical Subcommittee for Encoded Archival Standards (TS-EAS) at the Society of American Archivists (SAA) invites you to engage with a draft of the new version of the Encoded Archival Description standard, EAD 4.0, between December 2023 and February 2024, ahead of the public call for comments. For this activity, we are specifically looking towards archival aggregators as well as software providers and developers.
Having started the major revision process with various engagement...
CALM seeks participants from across LAMs who will contribute to a discussion about how well we are doing (or not doing) on the various fronts of employment, continuing education, collection development, descriptive practices, etc. We seek participants with different perspectives - from those new to the profession to experienced professionals and anyone in between. This panel will address what we are doing well and what we can do better in order for LAMs to become more inclusive environments...
VICE CHAIR/CHAIR-ELECT (Select 1)
Danielle SangalangArchivist and Records Manager, Massachusetts College of Art and Design
Biography:
Danielle Sangalang is the Archivist and Records Manager at Massachusetts College of Art and Design. She holds a Master’s degree in Library and Information Science and History from Simmons University. Danielle is an active member of the Digital Commonwealth Board of Directors and Past President (July 2019-June 2020). In 2020, she had the opportunity to help guide...
We hope to see you at the 2023 Annual Meeting of the College & University Archives Section! You must be registered to attend. Please follow this link to get registered. We hope to see you there!
Last updated in 1999, the updated Guidelines for College and University Archives is ready! Approved by the SAA Council on July 26, 2023, these new Guidelines represent years of work by dedicated C&UA Section members and invaluable input from Section membership. The Guidelines are available on the righthand menu in the Section microsite sidebar and will be available soon in the SAA Standards Portal.
This work could not have come to fruition without the efforts of Michelle Sweetser, Sandra...
A Talk by Karolina Hedström, Stockholm County Museum, Sweden and Bente Jensen, Aalborg City Archives, Denmark
Wednesday, May 14th 2025, 11am EDT (8am PDT; 4pm BST)
Register for the online event
This talk will present the Connect to Collect, a collaborative network of museums and archives dedicated to collecting and preserving social digital photography. Through the development of the innovative web app Connect to Collect, we aim to explore new methods for gathering and curating this vital form...
2023 Election: Candidate Statements
Thank you to all of the candidates for the 2023 Description Section election. Please read below for candidate biographies and statements of interest.
You will be voting for:
Vice Chair/Chair-Elect
One (1) Steering Committee Member-at-Large
Ballots will be managed by SAA staff; keep an eye on your inbox for when the ballot opens!
Vice Chair / Chair-Elect
Betts Coup
Bio:
Betts Coup is the Interim Head, Manuscript Section at Houghton Library at Harvard...
The Webinar was hosted by Rachael Woody of Rachael Cristine Consulting LLC. Rachael discussed how she set up her business, reviewed business and financial logistics, revealed how to select an appropriate consulting rate, and offered her tips and tricks for successfully entering the consulting world.
Rachael presented for about 45 minutes and then answer questions from the audience. If you have a question you’d like to ask Rachael, connect directly at 503-922-3402, consulting@rachaelcristine.com...
By Hathaway Hester, Archivist & Digital Preservation Librarian, National Association of REALTORS®
Headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, the National Association of REALTORS® (NAR) is the largest trade organization in the United States, with over 1.3 million members. The association’s mission is to “help its members become more profitable and successful” through professional development, research and education, public awareness campaigns, and political advocacy.
NAR Logo, 1923-1973.
Prior...
Colleagues:
Registration is now open for the annual Technical Subcommittee on Encoded Archival Standards (TS-EAS) meeting to be held online on Tuesday, May 26, 2026 11 AM to 12:30 PM CDT (12-1:30 PM EDT). This meeting is open for all interested parties, and will include an update on all TS-EAS activities. The meeting will also feature a discussion of the preliminary results of a community survey on encoding standard use and implementation.
To attend, please click here or copy and paste the...
Thank you to everyone who shared and participated in the 2023 Accessibility & Disability Section election call for candidates! We appreciate all of the nominations that we received. The names and statements of the candidates standing in the election are posted below. Please take a moment to review them.
Section members will be voting for:
3 Steering Committee members (three-year terms)
1 Early-career member (one-year term)
Ballots will be sent by SAA through Survey Monkey — keep an eye on...
The SAA Oral History Section invites you to join us Friday, March 7, 2025, at 1-2 pm EST for a community chat with oral and public historian Yolanda Hester and oral history archivist Kopana Terry on producing and managing oral history transcripts.
"Preserving Voices: A Community Conversation on the Oral History Transcript Lifecycle from Creation to Preservation"
Date: March 7, 2025
Time: 1-2pm EST / 10-11am PST
Speakers:
Yolanda Hester is an independent public historian. She is Project...
We are very pleased to share that the SAA Section Health Working Group has recently refreshed its charge and expanded its membership. The Working Group is charged with envisioning a new, remote-first model for SAA Sections, and its full charge is available on the SAA website (Section Health Assessment Working Group). Working Group members include Stefanie Caloia, Alison Clemens, Michelle Ganz, Mary Grace Kosta, Susan McElrath, Matthew Peek, Julie Yamashita, Joyce Gabiola, and Lydia Tang (noting...
Vice Chair/Chair-Elect
Justin Kovar is the Audio and Moving Image Archivist for the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History at the University of Texas at Austin and has been at the Center since 2011. Previous to that he was a Graduate Research Assistant for the University's Historical Music Recordings Collections and intern for the Texas Archive of the Moving Image. Justin earned his MSIS Degree from the School of Information at the University of Texas at Austin, and is an ACA certified...
Thank you to all of our excellent candidates for standing in the 2026 Collection Management Section election. Please take some time to review their candidate statements and get to know them so you can make an informed choice.
You will be voting for:
One Vice Chair/Chair-Elect
One Steering Committee member
One Web Liaison
Ballots will be managed by SAA staff through Survey Monkey; keep an eye on your inbox for when the ballot opens!
Vice Chair/Chair-Elect Candidate
The following candidate is...
Open Positions
Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect, vote for one
Steering Committee member, vote for two
Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect Nominees (1 candidate)
Alphabetical Order
Becky Briggs Becker
University Archivist, University of Missouri-Kansas City
Bio
Becky Briggs Becker (she/her) is the University Archivist at the University of Missouri-Kansas City (UMKC). She joined the UMKC University Libraries in February 2022 as the first full-time faculty archivist solely devoted to the UMKC University...
The Technical Subcommittee on Encoded Archival Standards (TS-EAS) is pleased to announce the publication of the first post in a collaborative series on the current EAD revision process.
In "Shape the Future of EAD: A Call to Action – Part I," published in the Description Section's online newsletter, we provide updates about the ongoing revision of Encoded Archival Description (EAD) and examine why the EAD standard needs revision and provide an insight into the revision process.
The second...
