Pride month is here! Do you want to learn about the latest on LGBTQIA2S+ oral history projects and their archival considerations? Join us at the 37th Annual Meeting of the Diverse Sexuality and Gender Section (SAA-DSGS) on July, 7th, 2025 from 11am to 12.30pm (central). Following brief Section’s business meetings, we’ll hear from two young professionals on this topic:
01-“Visibility is Survival”: Changes to the LGBTQ+ Oral History Inventory at the University of Wisconsin-Madison by David...
Vice Chair/Chair-elect
Elizabeth Wilkinson
Elizabeth.m.wilkinson@yale.edu
Yale Center for British Art
Biography:
Elizabeth Wilkinson is the Chief Archivist for the Yale Center for British Art (YCBA). Before joining the YCBA she served as the Archivist at Southern Connecticut State University, was the Archivist at the Jewish Historical Society of Greater Hartford, the Archivist at Small Special Collections Library at UVA, Curator of Manuscripts at the Booth Family Center for Special...
Thank you to all of our excellent candidates for participating in the 2025 Native American Archives Section election.
You will be voting for:
One Vice Chair/Chair-Elect, for a two-year term
One Steering Committee member, for a two-year term
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/ Chair-Elect position:
Candy Navarrete...
The SAA ARCS Models and Resources Committee is happy to announce that 33 webinars are now approved for recertification credits through the Academy of Certified Archivists:
Domain 1: Selection and Appraisal
Archival Appraisal for Beginners (08/22/2024) - ACA Recertification Code: CA25068
How to Start an Archive (12/13/2023) - ACA Recertification Code: CA25061
Domain 2: Arrangement and Description
Social Justice and Catholic Nuns (01/31/2023) - ACA Recertification Code: CA25054
Archival...
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 Steering Committee Member, for a two year term
Vice Chair/Chair Elect
Sarah Jones
Head of Special Collections & Archives Technical Services
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Bio:
Sarah Jones has served as Head of Special Collections and Archives Technical Services at the...
2025 Election: Candidate Statements
Thank you to all of our excellent candidates for standing in the 2025 Performing Arts 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 (1) Co-chair, 2024-2026
Please make sure to carefully read all the candidate biographies and statements of interest and make your selections. Ballots are managed by SAA through SurveyMonkey; you will receive a message in...
Thank you to all of our excellent candidates for standing in the 2025 Privacy & Confidentiality 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/Past (or Co-chair), for a three-year term (Year 1 is Vice Chair, Year 2 is Chair, Year 3 is Past Chair); and
2 Steering Committee members (two-year terms)
Ballots will be managed by SAA staff through Survey...
Thank you to all of our excellent candidates for standing in the 2025 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
One Student/Early Career Member for a one year term
Ballots will be managed by SAA staff through Survey Monkey....
We are excited to announce our slate of candidates for the 2024 Preservation Section election. Please 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 to come.
Vice Chair/Chair-Elect Candidate
The following...
Thank you to all the excellent candidates for standing in the 2025-2026 Audio and Moving Image Section election. Please take some time to review candidate bios and statements.
Open positions:
Vice Chair/Chair-Elect
Member-At-Large, Steering Committee
*The Steering Committee requires a minimum of two members.
Ballots will be managed by SAA staff through Survey Monkey; keep an eye on your inbox for when the ballot opens!
Candidate statements and Bios
Vice Chair/Chair-Elect Candidates
Vice...
Please find the 2025-2026 IAAS Election Candidate Statements below:
Open Position: Junior Co-Chair
(2-year term: 1st year as Junior Co-Chair and 2nd year as Senior Co-Chair)
CANDIDATES (3 TOTAL):
Jenifer Monger
Title: Institute Archivist at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York and Adjunct Professor for Indiana University
Biographical Statement:
Jenifer Monger is the Institute Archivist at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York and adjunct professor for Indiana...
Taking Flight in Oral History - Lessons Learned from Conducting the Flying Voices Oral History ProjectAbra Schnur, MLS Candidate, Project Director of the Flying Voices Oral History Project. The Flying Voices Oral History Project: In-flight and Ground Experiences of Braniff International Airways captures experiences and perspectives from former employees of the North Texas-based airline. Braniff shaped the aviation industry of the 1960s. It was the first major U.S. airline to...
Come join LAS for a Community Exchange open discussion about the LAS oral history series and the topic of Financial Records.
Oral History There has been such a large show of interest in the LAS oral history series that we would like to give people a chance to discuss!
Financial Records A recent LAS listserv discussion inspired the idea for this event. Should financial records be redacted? Should they even be included in the archive? Which records are benign and which are more sensitive?...
You will be voting for: • The Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect (one candidate, 2025-2028)• One Staring Committee Member (one candidate, full three-year term)• One Steering Committee Member (seven candidates, interm one-year term)• Updates to the ERS Section Standing Rules
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 Candidate (one open seat)
Lara Friedman-ShedlovDigital Records Archivist, University of Minnesota...
2025 Election: Candidate Statements
Thank you to all of our excellent candidates for standing in the 2025 Description 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 (1) Vice Chair/Chair-Elect, for a term of three (3) consecutive years: one (1) year as Vice Chair/Chair-Elect, one (1) year as Chair, and one (1) year as Past Chair.
One (1) Steering Committee Member-at-Large, for a...
Candidates are listed in alphabetical order.
Nikki Thomas
University of North Carolina at Charlotte
I am currently the Archivist for Collection Management at UNC Charlotte where I manage and supervise accessioning, arrangement, description, and preservation functions for University Archives and manuscripts, including establishment of policies, procedures, workflows and guidelines. Previously, I was Manuscripts Curator at UT San Antonio, where I managed the university’s manuscript collections...
Produced in 1970 as a collaboration between Newsreel filmmakers and the League of Revolutionary Black Workers, Finally Got the News paints a picture of race, class, and labor issues in Detroit while exemplifying the ways cinema at the time was used by filmmakers as a means for liberation and a tool for worker struggles.This film screening accompanies Interference Archive’s public exhibition of the same name, which reflects on print publications from across the radical left in the 1970s. We will...
Please find below the slides for Deborah Hakes's presentation and a link to the partial recording of the meeting.
Do you get a thrill looking at a box of tapes or talking about preservation, identification, description, transcriptions, digitization (the list goes on) we might just be the group for you!
If you are looking to expand your involvement within the Audio & Moving Image (AMI) community, please consider nominating yourself or a colleague for one of these leadership positions. In these roles you can build the section to new heights by creating programs, networking and providing expertise and...
UnBOXed: LAS Treasures
Join the Lone Arrangers Section for a professional "show-and-tell" as we marvel at the treasures from several different archival collections, including loss records from Titanic; pieces from the collections of over 25 jewelry tool and die companies spanning from the 1860s to today; a 15th century psalter done by hand with gold leaf; a Neptune certificate for crossing the equator; and more! The latest of the LAS UnBOXed series, this event will be sure to thrill and...
The Archival History Section (AHS) Steering Committee is seeking nominations for the following five vacancies:
Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect: one vacancy; one year as Vice-Chair and one year as Chair
Member-At-Large: three vacancies: one year term
Student/Early Career Member: one vacancy; one year term
The Steering Committee meets up to 1 hour once a month from September through June and holds an open to the public business meeting in the summer. The Steering Committee is responsible for planning...
UPDATE: Due to end of term graduations and in an effort to allow more people to participate we are rescheduling this event.
The Performing Art Section invites you to our upcoming meet and greet on May 14, 2025 at 1:00 pm EDT / 10:00 am PDT. Our guests will be Judy Tyrus, founder of ChromaDiverse (CD) and Eric Waldman, COO. Their presentation will include an overview video of ChromaDiverse and a brief look at the Oakland Ballet Company Legacy Project Portal.
ABOUT ChromaDiverse:
ChromaDiverse (...
Are you looking for a way to expand your professional network and get more involved in the digital archives and digital preservation community? If so, come join the Electronic Records Section Steering Committee and help grow the community while learning from fellow professionals!
Joining the Steering Committee is a small commitment of time each month, providing you with valuable experience as you contribute to vital services for your colleagues.
The committee meets once a month as time...
