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The Functions Team within the Technical Committee for Encoded Archival Standards (TS-EAS) is happy to announce the release of a new white paper introducing EAF, a draft XML encoding standard based on the International Standard Description of Functions (ISDF) that can be incorporated into the EAS family of standards. The white paper describes the work of the subteam and its proposed encoding solution, along with a number of examples. The white paper also includes some context about the draft and...
The Reference, Access, & Outreach (RAO) Section of the Society of American Archivists (SAA) is seeking nominees for election to the following positions:      (2) Steering Committee Member-at-Large - two year commitment    (1) Vice-chair/Chair-elect - three year commitment All positions begin at the 2024 Annual Meeting. Nominations can be made via the Google Form link below by May 30, 2024 Extended Deadline for Elected Positions: June 7, 2024. For more information and details on roles and...
Please join the Science, Technology, and Health Care (STHC) section of SAA for a special webinar on April 24, at 1pm (central).  Dr. Trevor Owens, Chief Research Officer at the American Institute of Physics, will present From Collections to Connections, Centering Belonging in Work with STEM Collections. For additional information about this free webinar, visit the registration page at the link below:  https://wustl-hipaa.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_WZ3VE0uHQt2gAFB6qlhwHg
"Preserving Voices: A Community Conversation on the Oral History Transcript Lifecycle from Creation to Preservation"   With Speakers:  Yolanda Hester is an independent public historian. She is Project Director of the Arthur Ashe Oral History Project at Arthur Ashe Legacy of UCLA. Yolanda is invested in fostering collaborative relationships with narrators at all points of the project.    Kopana Terry is the Oral History Archivist at the Nunn Center, University of Kentucky. She manages access and...
Mar 21, 2025   Oral History Section
The Reference, Access, & Outreach section of the Society of American Archivists seeks additional nominees for election to the following roles: Chair, incoming replacement for Vice-Chair resignation 2 year commitment, chair role to start by Jan 2024 Steering Committee Member-at-Large 2 year commitment Vice-chair/Chair-elect 3 year commitment, chair role to start August 2024 All roles begin September 2023 or at the conclusion of the election. Nominations can be made directly via...
The Reference, Access, and Outreach Section (RAO) of the Society of American Archivists (SAA) seeks proposals for the 2024 Marketplace of IDEAs to be held during the Virtual Annual Meeting on Thursday, July 25, 2024 at 4pm EDT/3pm CDT/2pm MDT/1pm PDT. Topics related to the sub-committee areas of Teaching with Primary Sources, Exhibits and Events, and Public Services Assessment are encouraged.Proposals addressing topics or themes related to the following will also be prioritized:- evolving the...
Thank you to all of our excellent candidates standing in the 2024 Business Archives Section (BAS) election. Please take some time to review their statements and get to know them so you can make an informed choice.  You will be voting for one candidate for each of the following positions: Vice Chair/Chair-Elect, three-year term Secretary, one-year term Vice Editor/Editor-Elect, two-year term Education Chair, one-year term Member-at-Large, one-year term Ballots will be managed by SAA staff;...
May 31, 2024   Business Archives Section
By Meredith Torre, Archivist, Atlanta Housing Authority The archival program at Atlanta Housing (AH) began October 2014. The AH Archives collects and preserves records of permanent and historical value dating back to the 1930's. These records document the history of public housing, the history of the United States' first federally funded public housing projects beginning in Atlanta, and the innovative role AH played in shaping public housing policy and history To find out more, check out the...
May 10, 2018   Business Archives Section
March 18, 2025 - The SAA Foundation is excited to offer support for attendance at ARCHIVES*RECORDS 2025 in Anaheim, CA. Join us on August 25-26, 2025, for a gathering of like-minded professionals and to enrich your knowledge in archives and records management.   Our awards cover conference-related expenses, including registration fees, travel, lodging, and meals. We prioritize applicants with demonstrated financial need, in line with our commitment to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion...
In this coffee chat Felicia will discuss the use of Airtable for managing complex data sets and workflows for audio and moving image materials; after the presentation the discussion will be opened up to the group for questions, or other solutions for managing a tracking AMI. Felicia Boretzky is a Media Collection Specialist for the Audiovisual Media Preservation Initiative (AVMPI) within the Smithsonian Libraries & Archives, Felicia is also the vice chair of the AMI section. 
Thank you to our candidates for standing for the 2024 Manuscript Repositories Section election. Section members, please review the candidate statements below and get to know the candidates so you can make an informed choice. You will be voting for: One Vice Chair/Chair-Elect, for a two-year term; and Three (3) Steering Committee members (two-year terms). Ballots are open June 24 - July 15, 2024. Vice Chair/Chair-Elect Candidate The following candidate is running for the Vice Chair/Chair-Elect...
Please find below the slides for Deborah Hakes's presentation and a link to the partial recording of the meeting.
If you missed the annual section meeting on July 24, catch-up with the chair’s report slides, minutes, and presenters’ slides from our program on reparative description of institutional records. Full Winter 2024 survey results are also online. The meeting featured presentations about steps archivists at three museums are taking to implement reparative description practices on institutional records. Though the principles discussed in articles and conference presentations apply to and inform...
Jul 31, 2024   Museum Archives Section
The Archival History Section steering committee invites members of the section and SAA to attend a virtual lecture on February 11 at 12 PM EST, by Heather MacNeil. MacNeil is a professor in the Faculty of Information of the University of Toronto, Canada. In her article, “Tacit Narratives in the Manuscript Collections of Matthew Parker and Robert Cotton,” which was published by Archivaria in 2024, she explored the ideologies that shaped the collecting and ordering of knowledge in two early...
Jan 15, 2025   Archival History Section
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...
Feb 11, 2025   Oral History Section
Submissions are invited for the Case Studies on Teaching With Primary Sources series sponsored by the Reference, Access, and Outreach (RAO) Section of SAA. This open-ended series of case studies is designed to illustrate the application of the Guidelines for Primary Source Literacy. To date, seventeen case studies have been published since December 2017, covering many of the objectives from the Guidelines. While submissions addressing any of the objectives are encouraged, we are particularly...
Candidate for Vice Chair/Chair-Elect (one 3-year term): Paige Adair Biography Paige Adair is the Senior Archivist, Fine Arts Specialist at The Portman Archives in Atlanta, GA, collaborating to provide access to the archival collections of architect and artist, John C. Portman, Jr. She is responsible for visual materials-based collections of photography and artwork, maintaining both digital records and physical works of art.  Paige has been an active member of Society of American Archivists,...
Jun 3, 2024   Visual Materials Section
Attached is the agenda for the LAGAS section meeting on Wednesday, July 26th. We look forward to seeing you all at SAA! 
Comments Sought Draft version 2 of “Standardized Statistical Measures and Metrics for Public Services in Archival Repositories and Special Collections Libraries” is now open for comment through Friday, February 17, 2017.  The proposed standard is available here on the SAA website or a PDF of the document can also be downloaded below. Provide your comments on any aspect of the proposed standard by commenting on individual pages of the document as presented here on the SAA website. You do not...
The Society of American Archivists’ Encoded Archival Standards (EAS) Section Steering Committee and the Technical Subcommittee for Encoded Archival Standards (TS-EAS) are excited to announce the availability of  “Encoded Archival Standards: A Primer”:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYWQeBRnhz0 This brief video tutorial introduces new users--archivists, curators, administrators, educators, and beyond--to Encoded Archival Description (EAD) and Encoded Archival Contexts - Corporate Bodies, Persons...
Meeting Minutes: AT/ARCHON Roundtable meeting at SAA Roundtable Meetings II Aug 24, 2011 3:15 PM - 5:15 PM BUSINESS 1.) Recap of AT/ARCHON RT 2010-2011 activities from past year: AT/ARCHON webpage on SAA site now includes:  Annual reports Presentations User profiles  Revised mission, goals, and merged name  Bylaws  Online elections 2.) Tom Hyry: SAA Council and Liaison announcements: SAA annual meeting taskforce established Deadline to volunteer is September 26, 2011 http://www2....
By Marie Force, Archives Director, Delta Flight Museum As Delta flies into its 90th anniversary of passenger service in 2019, the historical collections of the company continue to grow more accessible and active than ever. Since the 1950s, Delta has maintained archives that document and share its legacy of customer service—the “Delta difference”—in the words of its founder, C.E. Woolman. The collections also let visitors explore the history of aviation through the 40+ airlines affiliated with...
Apr 11, 2018   Business Archives Section
A group of "engineers, designers, business executives, and others" created and signed a pledge vowing not to create a database of individuals based on their religious beliefs. In doing so, the writers of the pledge acknowledge the role of technology in human rights abuses throughout history and vow to identify and advocate against the targeting of marginalized communities such as Muslims and immigrants. The full pledge can be found at http://neveragain.tech/
  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...
Jul 19, 2023   Performing Arts Section