Nominees for Vice Chair:
Tori Maches, Digital Archivist, UC San Diego
Running for Vice Chair of SAA’s Web Archiving Section represents an opportunity to use my past, local-level leadership experience, as well as my current role as UC San Diego’s digital archivist, to support the section’s internal efforts, and its collaborations with the wider professional community. In addition, my work managing UC San Diego’s web archiving program has given me a sense of both the progress the archival ...
Title: Creating and Conducting Focus Groups for Archivist Researchers
Start date: March 19th 1pm Eastern
End date: March 19, 2:30pm Eastern
Location: Virtual (Zoom)
Registration: https://tulane.zoom.us/meeting/register/Ld9Jny_oRxi0nwSjMGYLxA
Workshop description:
This workshop introduces how to design and conduct focus groups on topics relevant to archivists who are interested in conducting research. The workshop helps participants understand qualitative research basics with emphasis on what...
The SAA Performing Arts Section is happy to announce our next Meet & Greet on February 6, 2025 @1:00PM EST / 10:00AM PST with Melissa Ziobro, Curator of the Bruce Springsteen Archives & Center for American Music (BSACAM).
Join Melissa Ziobro for Meet the Bruce Springsteen Archives & Center for American Music, an overview of the Center's history, programmatic and exhibition efforts to date, and an inside look at ongoing efforts to manage a major traveling exhibitwhile planning for a...
2024 Election Candidates
It is that time of the year again, SAA election season! Thank you to all of our excellent candidates for standing in the 2024 Oral 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 three year term
Two Steering Committee members; for two year terms
Ballots will be managed by SAA staff; keep an eye on your inbox for when...
Hello everyone. The Oral History Section's Annual Meeting is on Wednesday, June 28th from 12pm-1:30pm EDT/9am-1030am PDT.
You must register to attend the meeting, which you can do by going to the event page for our meeting here: https://connect.archivists.org/events/event-description?CalendarEventKey=3e726686-f4b8-494d-8982-01879f4ab9cd&Home=%2fhigherlogic%2fccadmin%2fadmin%2fevents%2fmanagecalendarevents.aspx
The agenda for our meeting is as follows:
1. Business Meeting (12-12:15...
We are in need of a new Digital Archivist here to manage our DSpace repository, as well as support our other technology needs. Here is a piece of the job description:
Reporting to the Director of Archives & Records Management, the Digital Archivist holds primary responsibility for the implementation and maintenance of all in-house programs and databases used by the Arthur H. Aufses, Jr., MD Archives, including the DSpace digital repository and the Inmagic DB/TextWorks image database. The...
Created in the midst of the COVID-19 global pandemic in 2020, the Archival Workers Emergency Fund was established to provide financial assistance for archival workers experiencing acute, unanticipated financial hardship due to the crisis.
The number of recipients and award amounts will be determined by the SAA Foundation AWEF Grant Review Committee in collaboration with the SAA Foundation Board of Directors based on need and available funds. During the initial period (April 15 to December 31,...
The SAA Oral History Section invites you to join us for a collaborative talk to help you decide if oral history is right for you!
Taking a Step Back: Guidance for Determining Oral History Project Goals and How to Reach Them
Thursday December 5, 11:00am PST / 2:00pm EST
Register at https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZElc-GpqDstG9NsNQJFPCFXxw3BLNVPqshr#/registration
Please contact Kristin Morris with questions about this event at kristinmarie.morris@gmail.com.
This talk will help you...
The Winter 2024 Newsletter includes:
A letter from the MAS Chair, Laura Uglean Jackson
Digitizing the Russell Barnett Aitken Collection by Charlotte Kaczmarek
“A Kind of Love Match from the Beginning”: Helen Frankenthaler and the National Gallery of Art by Kelly Burton
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...
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...
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.
