The Summer 2023 Newsletter includes:
Meet Your Fellow Archivist: Ceila Emmelhainz
News from The Frick Collection by Sally Brazil
An internship Highlight from the Virginal Museum of Fine Arts by Nuelle R. Johnson
A Collection Highlight from the Corning Museum of Glass by Sarah Alender
A Report on Digitizing Travel Sketchbooks of Frances Prindle Taft by Madalyn Rehrman
A Report on Organizing Vertebrate Paleontology Archives at AMNH by Ruth E. Hurwitz
The 2023 Privacy and Confidentiality Section election results are in, and the section leadership is pleased to congratulate:
Elizabeth Russell – 2023-2024 Vice Chair/Chair Elect
Anu Kasarabada – 2023-2024 Steering Committee Member
Leslie Schuyler – 2023-2024 Steering Committee Member
Ashlyn Velte – 2023-2024 Steering Committee Member
The Election results for the Lone Arrangers Section are in! Thanks so much to everyone who volunteered for positions and voted. Below are the results:
Vice Chair/Chair-Elect: Hilary Swett
Newsletter Editor: Allison Bundy
Regional Representatives Co-Lead: Alison Quirion
Please congratulate Hilary, Allison and Alison on their new positions!
Julie Yamashita
Chair
Lone Arrangers Section
The roadmap is an active and evolving document, developed by the SAA Committee on Research, Data and Assessment, and represents research interests that have been identified by members across the profession. The roadmap will help shape priorities and opportunities that advance broader professional interests.
Adopted SAA Research and Innovation Roadmap, v 1.4
Your feedback is sought on Roadmaps ongoing development -- please share your input using this survey.
Congratulations to the three new members elected to the Archivists of Religious Collections Section Steering Committee (ARCS)!
Beaudry Allen, Vice-Chair begins a two year term as Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect.
Rhiannon Allen-Roberts begins a two-year term as General Steering Committee Member.
Trevor Alvord begins a two-year term as General Steering Committee Member.
Continuing in their present positions for one more year are:
Erin Louthen, Chair
Mary Grace Kosta, General Steering Committee...
Congratulations to the new members of the Accessibility & Disability Section steering committee!
The following candidates have been elected as steering committee members: Dylan Goodwin, Amanda McGrory, and Tarienne Mitchell.
Jess Bolwar has been elected as the steering committee early-career member.
Thank you to all of the candidates who stood for the 2023 election.
Just a reminder to join SAA's Technical Subcommittee on Encoded Archival Standards (TS-EAS) for an open session on the ongoing major revision of the Encoded Archival Description (EAD).
After a general introduction on the timeline and overarching topics of the revision process, we will have a closer look at EAD's relationshio to Records in Contexts (RiC) as well as presenting some discussion points hot of the press from the EAD sub-team meeting of the days before.
With this open session, we...
The recording from the 2023 LAS Annual Meeting on June 12 is now available! Please click here to view.
During the virtual meeting, the LAS Steering Committee recognized our 20th anniversary as an official SAA group (originally a roundtable, now a section) and introduced important updates, initiatives, and future plans for the section. We also welcomed Christina Zamon, Head of Special Collections and Archives at Georgia State University, who presented on her soon-to-be-released book, Alone in...
Thank you to all of our excellent candidates for standing in the 2023 Performing Arts 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 two Co-chairs, each for a two-year term.
The ballot is now open through August 13, 2023, and every PAS member's vote counts! The ballot is available under your SAA user profile or via this link.
Elizabeth K. Batiuk
elizabeth.k.batiuk@vanderbilt.edu...
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!
The Diverse Sexuality and Gender Section co-chairs are proposing changes to the standing rules of this section.
General changes throughout the Standing Rules:
Inclusive pronoun usage
modify LGBTQIA to LGBTQIA+
Changes regarding Article 4. Governance include:
Defining the Social Media / Web Liaison(s) position and responsibilities
Establishing a Program Coordinator position
Establishing an option for past-chairs to join the Steering Committee and serve a term of two years ...
Version 1.3 of the SAA Research and Innovation Roadmap -- an active and evolving document, developed by the SAA Committee on Research, Data and Assessment, and asserts the critical research needs and gaps that have been identified by members across the profession. The roadmap reflects an analysis of current and emerging research, assessment, and data needs, to frame and inform work the profession might undertake in the years to come.
Roadmap 1.3
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Please do not forget to register for our 2023 annual meeting on July 11, 2023, 12:00-1:30 pm ET/11:00 am-12:30 pm CT/9:00-10:30 am PT. Registration is under SAA Connect/Events.
In addition to summarizing the activities and achievements of this year, two international archives will offer presentations at our meeting. Alison Surtees will present the work of the Manchester Digital Music Archive in the UK and Boróka Lipka will talk about the recently developed archives of Trafó House of...
Newest version of the VMS Bibliography is here, thanks to the hard work of Angela Schwartz!
In the context of this year's SAA Annual Meeting Archives * Records 2023, the Technical Subcommittee on Encoded Archival Standards (TS-EAS) invites you to join the team for an open session on the ongoing major revision of the Encoded Archival Description (EAD).
Topics discussed as part of the revision have so far ranged:
• from the alignment between EAD and its sibling standard, the Encoded Archival Context - Corporate Bodies, Persons, and Families (EAC-CPF), version 2.0...
Dear colleagues,
We will be holding the 2023 Local Government Records Section election soon!
Thank you so much to our excellent candidate for standing in the election. Please take some time to review their candidate statement so you can get to know them.
You will be voting for:
One Vice Chair/Chair-Elect (or Co-chair), for a two-year term
Vice Chair/Chair-Elect
Sophia McGuireRecords Management AnalystCity of Gahanna, Ohio
Candidate Bio: Sophia has been in the records & archives field...
Greetings LAS Members:
Election ballots are now open! We hope that you will take a moment to vote and assist the section with future transitions. As a section, we are voting for new Steering Committee members for the following positions: Vice-Chair/ Chair-Elect, Newsletter Editor, and Regional Representative. To learn more about the candidates for each of these positions, please visit the following page:
https://www2.archivists.org/groups/lone-arrangers-section/meet-the-2023-las-election-...
The Web Archiving Section hosted a joint meeting with the Preservation and International Archival Affairs sections on June 20th, 2023.
The meeting featured speakers from Saving Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Online (SUCHO). When Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, Ukraine's online cultural heritage was at risk. Three library professionals from around the world joined together to create SUCHO, and have been working to create a digital backup of Ukrainian cultural heritage websites from museums,...
Thank you to all of our excellent candidates for standing in the 2023 Native American Archives 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, for a two-year term; and
Four Steering Committee members (two-year terms).
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...
Please vote in the 2023 election for the SAA ARCS Steering Committee. The ballot is now available at this link: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/FPGNYPY.
The "View Ballot" link will direct users to the usual SurveyMonkey election ballot. Users must be logged in to access the page. Once they submit one ballot, users will be redirected back to the main page to complete their next ballot.
The election closes on July 17, 2023.
This year we have multiple open spots on our section's leadership team:
Vice-Chair (1)
Steering committee members (up to 2)
We have a slate of great candidates. One is nominated for vice-chair and two for the steering committee. Please learn more about the positions and candidates below, then cast your vote!
List of Positions
Vice-Chair/Chair Elect (2-year commitment, 1 year as Vice-Chair and 1 year as Chair): Serves as Vice-Chair from the conclusion of the 2023 annual meeting through the...
Hello everyone. The Oral History Section's Annual Meeting is on Wednesday, June 28th from 12pm-1:30pm EDT/9am-1030am PDT.
You must register to attend the meeting, which you can do by going to the event page for our meeting here: https://connect.archivists.org/events/event-description?CalendarEventKey=3e726686-f4b8-494d-8982-01879f4ab9cd&Home=%2fhigherlogic%2fccadmin%2fadmin%2fevents%2fmanagecalendarevents.aspx
The agenda for our meeting is as follows:
1. Business Meeting (12-12:15...
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...
Please join the Technical Subcommittee on Describing Archives: A Content Standard (TS-DACS) for our annual business meeting on Monday, June 26, 2023 from 12-1:30 PM (EST). This meeting will be held via Webex. Please remember to register for the event through the SAA Connect event site.
There are no costs to attend the session and it is open to all; SAA membership is not required.
The annual meeting will include updates from TS-DACS on a variety of work, including TS-DACS educational videos...
Please join the PLASC Steering Committee for the Society of American Archivists' Public Library Archives and Special Collections annual section meeting! To gain access to the meeting, make sure that you register. You can register for the section meeting at tinyurl.com/2dws29uj
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The Public Library Archives and Special Collection (PLASC) will be meeting on June 29, 2023 from 3:00 PM to 4:30 PM (CST) [4:00 PM to 5:30 PM EST]. The meeting will begin with updates from PLASC Steering...
