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
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
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!
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....
Please join the Science, Technology and Health Care section for our annual meeting to be held virtually on Tuesday, July 30 from 11am-12:30pm (PST) / 1pm-2:30pm (CST) / 2pm-3:30pm (EST).
Following an update from SAA Council Liaison Jasmine Jones, a brief business meeting, the program will feature four lightning talk presentations and a moderated Q&A on archives outreach programs and events. The meeting is free and open to all who would like to attend but advance registration is required...
Please join us for the Archival History Section (AHS) annual business meeting on Tuesday, July 30 at 12 PM EST, 11 AM CT. During the meeting we will cover old business, announce the winner of the AHS annual archival history award as well as the election of the new board, and a presentation by Fallon Carey of the National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition (NABS). Below is a biography and summary of her presentation.
Bio: Fallon Carey joined the team at NABS in fall of 2022. She...
As solo or small shop archivists, we wear so many hats and it's hard to keep them all straight. Your Solo Archivists Section leaders know all about it so we are hosting a series of informal chats on Zoom that will give us the chance to be alone, together. We host these Solo Sessions on one Friday every other month. These unrecorded meetups are aimed at broad topics announced in advance and moderated by steering committee officers. We encourage SAS members to use this as a welcoming space to...
As always, the steering committee would like to express our heartfelt thank you to all of you who voted in our annual election, particularly since this year included a special election as well. Thanks for being active Preservation Section members!
We are very excited to announce the results of this year's election: our new Vice Chair/Chair-Elect is Heather Hamilton, and our new Member-at-Large is Kelley Moulton.
Heather Hamilton is a paper conservator at the Harry Ransom Center at the...
Please join us for the 2024 Annual Business Meeting of the Performing Arts Section, which will take place on Tuesday, July 9th from 05:00 PM to 6:30 PM (CT).
We will briefly review the Section’s work over the past year, hear updates from our Council liaison, and announce election results. Following these announcements, we will have an informal panel discussion with colleagues who will share something that has resonated with them recently that they have incorporated into their more traditional...
WAS & PLASC Virtual Joint Annual Section Meeting – Web Archiving Section and Public Library Archives & Special Collections
Wednesday, July 17, 2024
1-2:30pm CT
(11am-12:30pm PT / 12-1:30pm MT / 2-3:30pm ET)
Open and free to all - register now to receive the link!
We invite you to attend the joint annual section meeting of WAS and PLASC. Section chairs will open the meeting with an overview of the roles and activities of their sections. The main focus of the meeting will be a panel...
The Women Archivists Section will hold their 2024 Annual Meeting on Monday, July 15th from 3pm - 4:30pm CST. See the attached agenda and be sure to register below to join the discussion!
https://connect.archivists.org/events/event-description?CalendarEventKey=91722a2b-be13-4f31-be6e-018f35aabbdc&Home=%2fevents%2fcalendar
Date: Jul 22, 2024 from 03:00 PM to 04:30 PM (CT)
Please join us for the Solo Archivists Section Annual Meeting! Section leaders will give brief reports on activities over the past year, we'll hear from our SAA Council liaison, and we will welcome our incoming chair. The highlight of our meeting will be a presentation by our newsletter editor, Allison Bundy, on the recent migration of the collection she manages to ArchivEra. Allison's case study will cover the reasons for the migration, the...
2024 Election: Candidate Statements
Thank you to all of the excellent candidates who have agreed to run for positions as Steering Committe members in this year's election!
You will be voting for:
One (1) Co-chair, 2024-2026
Two (2) Steering Committee Members, 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 your inbox when the ballot is...
Vote in the 2024 Preservation Section General Election! Ballots are now open until Monday, July 15.
Ballot Page: https://mysaa.archivists.org/myballots
The “View Ballot” link will direct users to the usual SurveyMonkey election ballot. Users must be logged in to access the page.
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...
SAA SNAP is excited to announce that our ballot for next year’s committee is open for voting starting today! Make your voice heard in the selection of the following year’s committee who will steward this section with programming and leadership. The ballot will be open for three weeks, ending on July 15th. Please make sure you are logged in and a part of the SNAP section on SAA Connect to view our ballot. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact SNAP Chair Elias Gabriel Larralde or...
Thank you to all who considered participating as a candidate for standing in the 2024 Military Archives Section election. Please take some time to review the 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
The new Chair of the MARS Section will be Andrew Harman, who was elected as the Vice Chair/Chair-Elect in 2023. Jennifer Milani will continue to serve as the MARS Secretary and Amy Mondt as...
STEERING COMMITTEE NOMINEES
Lori Schwartz
Name, title, and institutional affiliation: Lori Schwartz, Hagel and Technical Services Archivist, University of Nebraska Omaha
Bio/statement: I manage the U.S. Senator Chuck Hagel Archives and direct arrangement and description for the University of Nebraska Omaha's Archives and Special Collections. Prior to 2015, I was Special Projects Archivist at South Carolina Political Collections where I processed a number of congressional collections. I...
The Crisis, Disaster, and Tragedy Response Working Group (CDTRWG) of the Society of American Archivists will be holding a virtual open meeting on Friday, July 12th at 11am Central Standard Time. Come join us to learn more about what we do, share ideas for future work, and engage with others working to navigate the complex field of collecting the wake of tragedies, disasters, and crises.
This meeting is free and open to all, but registration is required. Registration is available at this link....
Thank you to all of our excellent candidates for standing in the 2024 Issues & Advocacy 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 (two-year term); and
Three (3) 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/Chair-...
