By Suzanne E. Shapiro, PVH Historian / Heritage Brands Archivist
Cluett, Peabody and Co. (makers of ARROW brand) factory photo circa 1900. Image courtesy PVH Archives.
Overview
The PVH Archives is a digital and physical resource created to preserve all archival materials pertaining to PVH Corp. and its portfolio of iconic apparel brands including CALVIN KLEIN, TOMMY HILFIGER, and the Heritage Brands—Van Heusen, IZOD, ARROW, Warner’s, and Olga....
The Functions Team of the Technical Committee for Encoded Archival Standards (TS-EAS) is excited to announce a webinar to support the call for comments!
During the early summer TS-EAS released a 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...
Thank you to all of our excellent candidates for standing in the 2021 Human Rights 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 two Steering Committee members (three-year terms).
Ballots will be managed by SAA staff through Survey Monkey; keep an eye on your inbox for when the ballot opens!
The following candidates are running for the section steering committee:
Katherine...
Many archivists are reevaluating workflows and practices in order to create more equitable, anti-oppressive, and anti-racist metadata in their repositories. This important work is foregrounded by the Anti-Racist Description Resources, authored by the Archives for Black Lives in Philadelphia’s (A4BLiP) Anti-Racist Description Working Group.
Archives in Context spoke with A4BLiP’s Anti-Racist Description Working Group members Alexis A. Antracoli, Annalise Berdini, Faith Charlton, Valencia...
Ensuring that all histories – especially the most marginalized – are preserved and shared is a priority for Sites of Conscience around the globe. To support this, in partnership with our Asian and Pacific Sites of Conscience Network, we are pleased to launch “Shared Journeys,” a virtual exhibit that showcases the hidden, lost, or sidelined histories of the Asian region. The project is a collaboration between 12 Sites of Conscience in the region and is curated by Radhika Hettiarachchi.Read more ...
Nominee for Education Coordinator (2-year term)
Leah Constantine, Archives Senior Manager, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
Leah Constantine is the Archives Senior Manager at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, where she explores and preserves the vast history of culture and performance in New York City and nationwide. Traditionally a museums specialist, Leah has enjoyed gathering research and skills from past experiences at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The New Museum, and Pratt...
Thank you to all of our excellent candidates for participating in the 2024 Native American Archives Section election.
You will be voting for:
One Vice Chair/Chair-Elect, for a two-year term
One Secretary/Recorder, for a one-year term
Four Steering Committee members, for two-year terms
Ballots will be managed by SAA staff through SurveyMonkey - Please keep an eye on your inbox for when the ballots open!
Vice Chair/Chair-Elect Candidates
The following candidates are running for the Vice Chair...
The SAA Oral History Section invites you to join us Thursday, September 26, 2024 at 1-2pm EST for a community chat with Archivist David Olson about his recently published article in the American Archivist, “Forms, Formations, and Reforms,” on the evolution of the oral history release form from its origins to current practices and future trends. The event will consist of a conversation between Olson and OHS Chair Cyrana Dowell, followed by an audience Q&A. We encourage you to read the...
Institutional practices during the pandemic have undermined job stability in more subtle ways as well. In a survey by the Archival Workers Emergency Fund, respondents expressed concern about the elimination and consolidation of positions, reduction of contract lengths, inability to find new positions, and distribution of the impact along gendered and racial lines.Crowdsourced reporting in Google Docs and mutual aid requests further documents the systemic pattern of furloughs, forced retirements...
Visual Materials Section event this THURSDAY, November 2 @ 3:30pm ET / 12:30pm PT
Annual Meeting Proposal Brainstorming
Do you have a project or an idea related to visual materials you'd like to share but need a little encouragement? Do you have a question about working with visual materials that you'd like to know the answer to?
Come join the Visual Materials section for an informal brainstorming session to make connections and workshop ideas for annual meeting session proposals. Let's get...
Member-At-Large
Denise Gallo Provincial Archivist of the Religious of Jesus and Mary
Denise Gallo has served as Provincial Archivist for the Religious of Jesus and Mary in Warwick,R.I. since 2018. Prior to that, she held the same position for the Daughters of Charity, Provinceof St. Louise, Emmitsburg, MD. Dee’s transition to religious archives came after 10 years asHead of Acquisitions and Processing at the Music Division of the Library of Congress. Dee has been a member of ARCS, having...
Did you miss the Solo Archivists Section's first "UnBOXED: Small Digitization Projects" event on March 28? If so, the recording is now available here.
Also, remember to register (if you haven't already) for Part 2!
In the Part 1 recording, you will hear from the following panelists:
Katherine Banks, Milligan University (Tennessee)
For almost ten years, the archivist and archives student workers at Milligan University's archives have been digitizing institutional photos for their digital...
The Society of American Archivists Museum Archives Section welcomes your comments on a draft of revised Museum Archives Guidelines. These guidelines have been created by the Section to assist all types of museums in the development and administration of archival programs.
You can view the draft Guidelines here and submit feedback by accessing this survey: https://forms.gle/xNp3Ad9QRYwHokX97
Please note that you can sign off on the Guidelines as written using the radio buttons in the first...
The SAA Performing Arts Section is happy to announce our first "meet and greet" virtual meeting of this new membership year. The meeting features special guest, Robinson McClellan, Associate Curator of Music Manuscripts and Printed Music at the Morgan Library & Museum. He will be discussing the exhibition, "Crafting the Ballet Russes: The Robert Owen Lehman Collection," which is on display through September 22, 2024.
The meeting will take place:September 10, 2024 at 4:00PM EDT
Please...
The SAA Committee on Ethics and Professional Conduct virtual Annual Meeting featured guest speakers from the Term Labor Best Practices Working Group. Alison Clemens, Kit Messick, and Laura Starratt discussed the development and recommendations of their Best Practices for Archival Term Positions white paper. The Best Practices for Archival Term Positions engages deeply with the ethical tradeoffs inherent in staffing archives through term positions, and provides actionable recommendations for...
Dear IAAS members:
We are pleased to announce the International Archival Affairs Section Steering Committee leadership for 2024-2025. Congratulations to our incoming committee members: Jennifer Dantchev (Junior Co-Chair) and Rachel Poppen (the new Steering Committee Member at-Large). Karen Trivette has officially rotated into the Senior Co-Chair role!
Current 2024-2025 Steering Committee roster:
* Karen Trivette, Senior Co-Chair (Alma Mater Europaea University-European Center Maribor, Slovenia...
If you missed the SAA Solo Archivists Section (SAS) annual section meeting on July 22, or just want to rewatch the announcements or Allison Bundy's interesting and informative deep dive into implementing ArchivEra at her repository, the recording is now available!
If you're only interested in Allison's presentation, it begins (after a short introduction by SAS incoming chair Hilary Swett) at about the 23-minute mark.
A reminder of the content of her talk:
Allison's case study covers the reasons...
The 2024 Summer Newsletter includes:
A letter from the outgoing MAS Chair, Tara Laver
A letter from the incoming MAS Chair, Laura Uglean Jackson
News from the MAS section about the recent business meeting
Introducing the National Postal Museum Archives by Mitch Toda
From bad OCR to transcription to AI: Good communication with IT was the final solution by Molly Stothert-Maurer
Expediting Discovery and Access in Archives at the National Gallery of Art by Nina Aguiar Shempliner
2023 Call for Applicants - Associate Editor for Case Studies on Teaching with Primary Sources
The Teaching with Primary Sources sub-committee of the Reference, Access and Outreach Section of the Society of American Archivists is accepting applications for the role of Associate Editor for the Case Studies on Teaching With Primary Sources series. For more information about the series, visit: https://www2.archivists.org/publications/epubs/Case-Studies-Teaching-With-Primary-Sources.
The Associate...
We are pleased to announce the new members of our Steering Committee:Natalie Worsham, ChairElizabeth Jones-Minsinger, Vice Chair/Chair ElectKristin Nyitray, Member-at-LargeSebastian Modrow, Member-at-LargeMelissa Smith, Member-at-LargeElizabeth “Liza” Whitfield, Student/Early Career Member
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...
Congratulations to the following winners of our most recent election!
Vice Chair/Chair-Elect: Amanda McGrory.
Student/Early-Career: Elizabeth Pineo.
Members: Anne Marie Hamilton-Brehm, Talea Anderson, and Ruohua Han.
Speaking of Amanda, you will be able hear her as an analyst on some broadcasts during the upcoming Paralympics!
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...
A recording of the Museum Archives Symposium, co-hosted by the Museum Archives Section and the Yale Center for British Art May 10, 2024, is now available. Timestamps for each session have been added to the program site.
A huge thank you to all those who ran and voted in the 2024 MDOS elections this year! Please join us in welcoming the incoming steering committee members.
Incoming Co-Chair (2024-2027): Laura Drake Davis, Digital Project Specialist, Library of Congress
Steering Committee Member (2024-2027): Nashieli Marcano, Archivist for Digital Collections, Furman University
Communication Liaison (2024-2026): Tomeka Jackson, Library Resident, Clemson University
We are so excited to have them on board....
