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Thank you to all of our wonderful candidates for volunteering to run for open SAA Collection Management Section positions.  You will be voting for: One Vice Chair/Chair-Elect (or Co-chair), for a two-year term One Web Liaison for a two-year term Two Steering Committee members, for a two-year term.  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 (1) Jonathan Kirkwood Records Manager & Associate...
Thank you to all our candidates for standing in the 2024 Design Records Section election! Members, please review their candidate statements below. You will be voting for: • Junior Co-Chair (Chair-Elect) • Steering Committee member Please note that the election will be managed by SAA Governance staff - keep an eye on your inbox for voting information!  Junior Co-chair Candidate Morgan Wilson, Architecture Archivist, University of Notre Dame Libraries Bio & Candidate Statement: In my current...
Jun 5, 2024   Design Records Section
You will be voting for: Two Steering Committee members (three-year terms) (2024-2026); and One bloggERS Communications Liaison (one-year term) (2024-2025).  A note that we are slightly changing procedure for this election, due to no self-nominations for Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect. In this election, the person who receives the most votes for steering committee member will be offered the vice-chair position, and the candidates who receive the second-most and third-most votes will become steering...
Thank you to all of our excellent candidates for standing in the 2024 Archival History 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 one year term and then a one year term as Chair Three Steering Committee members for a one year term Ballots will be managed by SAA staff through Survey Monkey; keep an eye on your inbox for when the ballot opens...
Jun 3, 2024   Archival History Section
Please take some time to review the candidate statements for the 2024-2026 Diverse Sexuality and Gender Section leadership positions before submitting your vote once the ballots open.You will be voting for:1-2 Co-chair(s), for a two-year term; and2 Steering Committee members Ballots will be managed by SAA staff through Survey Monkey; keep an eye on your inbox for when the ballot opens! Co-Chair candidate: Jordi Padilla-Delgado (he / him)Records Manager at Lloret de Mar Municipal Archive (...
Open Positions Co-Chair, vote for two Steering Committee member, vote for one Co-Chair (3 candidates) Alphabetical Order   Mary Grace Kosta Archival Consultant   Bio Mary Grace Kosta obtained her MA in linguistics from the University of Calgary, and worked for 25 years as a linguist, museum registrar, government manager, and teacher. She then obtained her MLIS with a specialization in archives from the University of Western Ontario. She worked as an archivist for 13 years before retiring and...
Jun 3, 2024   Women Archivists Section
Open Positions Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect, vote for one Steering Committee member, vote for two   Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect Nominees (1 candidate) Alphabetical Order   Nick Richbell Head of Special Collections and Archives, Clemson University   Bio Dr. Nick Richbell recently received his PhD in History from the University of Waterloo. His area of research is the history of Spiritualism, and his doctoral dissertation is a biographical history about Maurice Barbanell and Silver Birch. Nick is currently...
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
Read candidate statements for the 2024-2025 election.
Jun 1, 2024   Museum Archives Section
The Archivists and Archives of Color Section Steering Committee is excited to announce the excellent slate of candidates running in this year’s election. Please review their bios and statements before casting your votes. You will be voting for: 1 Co-chair (2-year term) 1 Newsletter Editor (2-year term) 3 Steering Committee Members (2-year term) SAA staff administer ballots through Survey Monkey and will email you the ballot when voting opens. Co-chair Tamera ColemanStaff Corporate Archivist,...
One open Vice Chair position Autumn Oakey Autumn Oakey is a Library Assistant at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, where she has worked in archives and libraries for three years. She manages physical records transfers, provides staff and departmental records management training, and updates university retention schedules. She graduated with her bachelor's degree in history from UW-Whitewater in 2021. Additionally, Autumn is working toward a master's in library and information science...
Junior Co-Chair (2-year term): Jennifer Dantchev, MSLIS Title: Graduate, Long Island University Candidate Statement:  I have served on the IAAS committee for two years, first as an Early Career Member and then as a Steering Committee Member. I also have previous experience on the Records Management Section as an Early Career Member and then as a Steering Committee Member. My previous experience on the IAAS has allowed me to learn and better understand the section, its purpose, and how the whole...
Thank you to all of our excellent candidates for standing in the 2024-2025 SAA SNAP 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 3 Steering Committee members (three-year terms).  Secretary Vice Chair/Chair-Elect Candidates The following candidates are running for the Vice Chair/Chair-Elect (or Co-chair) position: Kay...
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
In 2024, the SAA Solo Archivists Section (SAS) will elect new leadership to fill the following positions: Vice Chair/Chair, Events Coordinator, Regional Representative, and Web Liaison. Meet the 2024 Candidates: Vice Chair/Chair Elect Alison Quirion Archivist, Santa Monica Studio Bio: After spending 20 years as a marketer in the entertainment industry, I decided to pursue my interest in asset management, archives, and information organization. In Spring 2021, I received my MLIS degree from...
May 31, 2024   Solo Archivists Section
We are excited to announce our slate of candidates for the 2024 Preservation Section election. Although both of our candidates are running unopposed, we encourage you to review their candidate statements and get to know them. Thank you to our candidates for volunteering!    You will be voting for: One Vice Chair/Chair-Elect (1 year term as Vice-Chair; following two years as Chair and Past-Chair) One Member-At-Large (Two-year term) Ballots will be managed by SAA staff, with ballot information...
May 31, 2024   Preservation Section
2024 Election: Candidate Statements Thank you to all of the candidates for the 2024 Description Section election. Please read below for candidate biographies and statements of interest.   You will be voting for: Vice Chair / Chair-Elect Secretary 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 Max Goldberg  Bio: Max Goldberg is the Creative Arts Archivist in the Technical...
May 31, 2024   Description Section
2024-2025 Election: Candidate Bios/Statements Thank you to all of our excellent candidates for standing in the 2024 Audio and Moving Image 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: Chair (1 year commitment) Vice Chair/Chair-Elect (2-year commitment, as Vice-Chair and then Chair) Member-At-Large, Steering Committee (1 year commitment)  Member-At-Large, Steering Committee (1...
Mary Grace Kosta obtained her MA in linguistics from the University of Calgary, and worked for 25 years as a linguist, museum registrar, government manager, and teacher. She then obtained her MLIS with a specialization in archives from the University of Western Ontario. She worked as an archivist for 13 years before retiring and now serves as an archival consultant. She currently co-chairs the Joint US-Canada AtoM Users Group, the Archives Canada Working Group, and serves on the NDSA...
May 31, 2024   Labor Archives Section
CANDIDATE STATEMENT   Conor M. Casey, MA, MLIS, CA Head of the Labor Archives of Washington, University of Washington Libraries Special Collections With 23 years of archival experience, I began my career as an assistant at the Labor Archives & Research Center, San Francisco State University, eventually becoming an archivist and visual materials curator (2001-08). I later served as a research archivist at Pixar Animation Studios before joining the University of Washington Libraries Special...
May 31, 2024   Labor Archives Section
2024-2025 Candidates & Referendum   Thank you to our excellent candidates for standing in the 2024-2025 Public Library Archives and Special Collections (PLASC) Section election! Please take some time to review the candidate statements below so you can make an informed choice.   You will be voting for: one Co-chair, for a two-year term; and one Secretary, for a one-year term. We are also holding a referendum on revisions to the Section’s standing rules, as detailed below. The proposed...
Thank you to all of our excellent candidates for standing in the 2024 Metadata and Digital Object Section (MDOS) 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: Three year terms: Co-Chair (vote for 1) Steering Committee Member (vote for 1) Two year term (completing term for previous member): Communications Liaison (vote for 1) Ballots will be managed by SAA staff through Survey Monkey; keep...
Thank you to all of our excellent candidates for standing in the 2024 Archives 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, for a three-year term (Vice Chair, Chair, and Past Chair cycle); One Secretary, for a one-year term; and 2 Steering Committee members, for three-year terms.  Ballots will be managed by SAA staff through Survey Monkey;...
May 30, 2024   Archives Management Section
Thank you to all of our excellent candidates for standing in the 2024 STHC 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 Junior Co-Chair (two-year term) One At-Large Steering Committee Members (three-year term) Ballots will be managed by SAA staff, so please keep an eye on your inbox for when the ballot opens! Junior Co-Chair Candidate Allison Fischbach Digital Archivist...
The recording from the May 23 SAS event, "UnBOXed: Instruction for Solo Archivists," is now available here.  In addition, presenter Micaela Terronez has generously provided her slides for review and download as well! Speaker: Micaela Terronez is a Special Collections Librarian and Instructor at Augustana College in Rock Island, IL. She received her M.L.I.S. from The University of Iowa in 2019. Before her most recent position, she previously instructed class sessions in primary source literacy...
May 30, 2024   Solo Archivists Section