Steering Committee Roster
The Women Archivists Section (WArS) will hold its 2026 Annual Meeting on Tuesday May 19th from 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM CDT. Following a short business meeting, WArS will facilitate a panel discussion, "What I Wish I Knew When I Started Archiving."
In this lively panel discussion, experienced archivists will share the lessons that they wish they had known when they first entered the profession. Panelists from varied backgrounds will reflect on their...
Vice Chair/Chair-Elect Candidates
Ying-Ying Han
Bio
Yingying recently earned her Ph.D. from the School of Information Sciences, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Starting from August, she will be a faculty member at the School of Information Sciences, University of Tennessee. Her research and teaching interests focus on critical archival studies, digital preservation, and community engagement with marginalized groups.
By integrating critical theories such as feminist ethics of care,...
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...
There are two ways to submit comments on the Guidelines for Reappraisal and Deaccessionng.
1. Review the attached PDF here and submit feedback to luglean@uwyo.edu.
2. Go to http://rddrt.forens.es/ and post your comments directly online. Please note that comments posted here will be seen by anyone who visits the page.
Comments must be received by October 16, 2011. The RD-DRT will discuss all comments after this date.
Co-Chair (Three Year Committment, One Vacancy):
Ashten Vassar-Cain, Project Archivist, Pennhurst Memorial & Preservation Alliance
Bio:
I am a community archivist focusing on Disability History and Culture. I am a current MLIS student at Simmons University School of Library and Information Science. I hold a previous Master's degree in Human Rights from the University of Connecticut, where I focused on atrocity crimes, state violence, and disability institutionalization. This perspective...
The Technical Subcommittee for Encoded Archival Description (TS-EAD) issued a call for comments on the revision of EAD 2002 in October 2010. The comment period ended on February 28, 2011.
One hundred and twenty-seven comments were received. The submissions received during the comment period have been compiled into a spreadsheet and made available through the SAA standards portal EAD Revision page.
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...
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...
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...
SAA's Technical Subcommittee on Encoded Archival Standards (TS-EAS) will host a webinar on December 13, 2021 to provide an update on work on the Records in Contexts (RiC) model. Two members of the International Council on Archives Experts Group on Archival Description (EGAD) will present a brief overview of the archival description standard RiC followed by Q&A discussion. The presentation will cover both the Conceptual Model (RiC-CM) and Ontology (RiC-O).
Time/Date
This 60-minute...
Holly Deakyne
Processing Archivist, Special Collections Department, Library, Museums & Press, University of Delaware
I have worked in numerous archival settings, primarily as a processing archivist for personal and professional papers, including at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Ohio University, the Getty Research Institute, and the New-York Historical Society. I hold an MLS from Pratt Institute with a specialization in archives. In my current position, I am appraising, arranging, and...
On April 9th we hosted Rachel Taketa and Amanda Norman from the Opioid Industry Documents Archive for an incredible discussion about their work making opioid industry records available for researchers, lawyers, and the public.
Resources and the recording is now available on our Archival Elements Blog.
Thank you to Rachel and Amanda!
Below are links to three of the most recent stories from the 20th Century Fox Archive's blog series.
Thank you to all of our excellent candidates for standing in the 2026 Accessioning, Acquisitions, & Appraisal 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 (three-year term); and
Two 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/...
(The following was originally posted on my personal blog, Of Bicycles and Archives.)
This week the Society of American Archivists Annual Meeting is taking place in San Diego. When participants first arrived, a Dole container ship was docked quite nearby and generated a lot of excitement. It’s departure saddened many, but last night’s arrival of the Green Bay Packers at the conference hotel livened things up again. All of this I know from Twitter. Though a member of the Annual Meeting Task...
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.
The Society of American Archivists' (SAA) Technical Subcommittee on Encoded Archival Standards (TS-EAS), in collaboration with the Encoded Archival Standards Section Steering Committee, will be hosting an April webinar to introduce proposed changes to the EAC-CPF standard.
Encoded Archival Context - Corporate bodies, Persons, and Families (EAC-CPF) is an international standard maintained by SAA for encoding contextual information about persons, corporate bodies, and families related to...
Dear members of the Encoded Archival Standards community,
TS EAS is seeking to fill two international and two SAA based vacancies in TS EAS during the fall of 2021. We seek new members through open calls and will evaluate all applications. There might be an on-line call performed after we have gone through the applications.
TS EAS meets four times a year (committee members must attend at least two of these) and also has smaller teams working with specific tasks like the maintenance of the...
The Technical Subcommittee on Encoded Archival Standards is holding an open working meeting on Thursday, August 13, 2020 at 9 AM PDT / 10 AM MDT / 11 AM CDT / 12 PM EDT / 5 PM BST / 6 PM CEST/ 2 AM Friday AEST (https://sched.co/dQd6).
The meeting is open for all to attend, and will cover our new outreach work, the on-going revision of Encoded Archival Context--Corporate bodies, Persons, and Families (EAC-CPF), and an update on current Encoded Archival Description (EAD) work. We will...
Heading into the new SAA year after the Annual Meeting in August, the Technical Subcommittee on Encoded Archival Standards (TS-EAS) has finalised two minor revisions of EAD3 (Tag Library) and EAD 2002 (Schema), which the Standards Committee approved before the summer break. With this, TS-EAS also would like to kick off the major revision of EAD, asking for the community’s comments to get us started.
Minor revisions - EAD3 Tag Library and EAD 2002 schema
As a precursor to the major revision,...
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...
Spanish subtitling is now available for 2024-2025 Archival Landscapes seminar with Peruvian archivists Dora Alicia Palomo Villanueva and Laura Yturbe Mori. IAAS is grateful for the Component Group Funding for this special project.
Watch this Archival Landscapes seminar now!
Society of American Archives, Archival History Section,
Archival History Article Award
Washington DC, 16 August 2018
Patricia Kennedy Grimsted,"Pan-European Displaced Archives in the Russian Federation: Still Prisoners of War on the 70th Anniversary of V-E Day"in Displaced Archives edited by James Lowry.
Displaced Archives in Russia from the Second World War:
Remarks by Patricia Kennedy Grimsted
I am personally very honored by the Archival History Article Award for my chapter on displaced...
Hello SAA Community,
Please join us for the International Archival Affairs Section’s (IAAS) 2026 Annual Business Meeting scheduled for Thursday, May 27, 2026, at 2:00pm EST.
Click here for the Webex registration link.
During our annual business meeting, we will be covering the following:
Summary of the section’s business since the last annual meeting
Report from the section’s Council Liaison
Detailed report on the year’s Archival Landscapes Seminar Series
Detailed report on the year’s...
by Greg McCoy, Immediate Past Chair
As stated at the 2019 Annual Section Meeting, the section’s Standing Rules are in need of updating to reflect the changes in the roles and responsibilities of Section officers, to reflect changes in SAA guidelines, and other small changes. None of these fundamentally alter or change the Section’s overall mission or objectives, and the majority of changes are in the sections related to Officers, Committees, and Elections. Changes are viewable in the documents...
