On December 5, 2024, the Oral History Section Steering Committee hosted "Taking a Step Back: Guidance for Determining Oral History Project Goals and How to Reach Them" with presenters Natalie Milbrodt and Kristin Morris.
Thank you to all who could join. A pdf of the presentation slides is available.
HOW TO SUGGEST THAT SAA TAKE ACTION ON AN ISSUE
If you encounter an issue on which you think SAA should comment (or advocate for in another way), here’s how to bring that issue forward.
Review the SAA Public Policy Agenda to determine if your issue is included among the priorities outlined there. Use this review to note the types of issues that SAA addresses and also to ensure that your issue is not already being addressed.
Also review the Criteria for Advocacy Statements, SAA Strategic...
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...
Dear EAD and EAC-CPF users,
On behalf of SAA’s Technical Subcommittee for Encoded Archival Standards (TS-EAS) we are pleased to announce the minor releases of the EAC-CPF 2.0.1 and the EAD3 1.1.2 Tag Libraries as well as an update to the Schematron files that are available for extended validation of EAC-CPF 2.0 and EAD3 XML files.
What’s new in the EAC-CPF 2.0.1 Tag Library?
This minor revision to the Tag Library covers a typographical error in @targetType (see issue #111) and adaptation of...
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...
One Steering Committee Member-at-Large (3-year term):
Jenifer Monger, MSIS
Title: Institute Archivist, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Candidate Statement:
I have been a member of the Society of American Archivists since 2012, enjoying the wonderful professional benefits of so much that SAA offers the archives profession. Throughout the years I’ve been affiliated with numerous sections, but most currently I am the Chair of the Membership Committee and liaison to the Diversity Committee. My...
A new issue of SOLO, the newsletter of the Solo Archivists Section, is now available.
If you are interested in submitting to SOLO, you can send submissions for highlights through this Google Form. Highlights are a quick and easy way to share with fellow archivists what you have been up to - current projects, successes, or other accomplishments. You can also send any ideas or articles to soloarchivists.saa@gmail.com
The Performing Arts Section invites you to our next Meet & Greet meeting, which will take place on on January 9, 2025 @ 3:00pm EST / 12:00pm PST.
Our special guest will be dance and costume historian, Dr. Caroline Hamilton, curator of the current exhibition at the McNay Art Museum, Women Artists of the Ballets Russes: Designing the Legacy. This will be a wonderful opportunity to hear about the Ballet Russes holdings that are part of the museum's Tobin Theatre Collection, as well as a last...
by Dave J. Moore, Brand Archivist and Historian
Three dollars could buy you a good sized order of overalls at the turn of the 20th century. This check was submitted to Hamilton Carhartt & Co., based in Detroit, from D.L. Powers of Jonesville, Michigan in 1898.
120 years later, Powers Clothing is still going strong… and still selling Carhartt. When you have retail partners that old, you know you must be doing something right. Financial records like this are just one example of the materials...
Hi all,
I am excited to share our election results-- Denise Gallo will be serving as Member-At-Large and Gailyn Bopp as Co-Chair/Chair Elect. Their bios are listed below to learn more about them.
Thank you again to all the candidates on the ballot this year and section voters!
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...
Join the Science, Technology and Healthcare Section for our annual section meeting on Friday, July 30 at 1:00pm-2:30pm CST! Please register [zoom.us] to receive the Zoom information.
Following an update from SAA Council Liaison Petrina Jackson and the STHC business meeting, Steering Committee Members Nora Zaldivar and Peter Collopy will present and lead a discussion on ways STHC archives can develop collections, policies, and practices that reflect and accommodate the diversity of our...
The Performing Arts Section invites you to our next Meet & Greet meeting, which will take place on Wednesday, December 4th at 1:00pm EST / 10:00am PST.
Our featured guest will be Philip Milnes-Smith, Digital Archivist for Shakespeare's Globe. He will be giving us a presentation on a current UK National Archives’ Research and Innovation grant-funded project at Shakespeare’s Globe to create inclusive thematic finding aids for the collections utilizing community input from an intersectional...
Thank you to all who participated in the 2024-2025 Public Library Archives and Special Collections (PLASC) Steering Committee election! We are pleased to announce committee members:
Co-Chair (Returning): Charmaine Bonner
Librarian, Marin City Library/School Library Services
Co-Chair: Erinn Barnes
Digital and Photo Archivist, Pikes Peak Library District
Secretary: Jill Tominosky
Archivist, Access Services, New York State Archives
Webmaster: Aimai Reporter
Metadata Librarian - Digital Archives,...
The Performing Arts Section is pleased to announce that our next Meet & Greet is scheduled for Tuesday, November 19, 2024 at 4:00pm EST / 1:00pm PST. Joining us will be Greg Prickman, Interim Director of the Folger Shakespeare Library and Eric Weinmann Librarian & Director of Collections. Greg will be on hand to discuss new opportunities in exhibitions and programming that the Folger's recently completed four-year renovation project has made possible.
Please register to receive the...
Calling all witches, goblins, and ghouls! Science, Technology, and Healthcare Section wish all of you a Happy Halloween. Creep on some spookifying repositories in this latest blog post.
The Science, Technology, and Health Care (STHC) section will be hosting a 1-hour virtual open discussion session on the topic of challenges and solutions to generating student interest in STHC collections on Tuesday, November 12 at 11am (CST).
This discussion will be moderated by Allison Fischbach (Chesney Medical Archives, Johns Hopkins) and Stephen Logsdon (Becker Medical Archives, Washington University in St. Louis). All are welcome to attend the discussion, and attendees are encouraged to...
This will be my last newsletter as Web Liasion/Newsletter Editor. I am happy to answer questions about the position and give lots of info to whomever is chosen to replace me. I can be contacted via hilary.h.barlow@gmail.com
I am very grateful to current and previous chairs and steering committee members for making this an excellent section to be a part of! As I've mentioned before, I am stepping down for no other reason than it feels like time (I've been doing this for more than 4 years) and I...
Thank you to all who were able to join us for the community chat with David Amel Olson on the history of Oral History Release Forms! There was quite a turn out!
The presentation slides are available in pdf format.
Thank you all for your interest in our community programs.
The Election results for the Solo Archivists Section are in. Thank you to those who volunteered for positions and voted. The results are:
Vice Chair/Chair-Elect: Kim Bradshaw
Co-Regional Representative: Laura K.N. Jones
Events Coordinator: Alison Quirion
Congratulations to Kim, Laura, and Alison on their new positions!
Hilary Swett, Chair
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...
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...
