2024 Special Election: Candidate Statements
Thank you to all of our excellent candidates for standing in the 2024 Preservation Section special 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 Member-At-Large (Two-year term)
Ballots will be managed by SAA staff. Once the ballots have been prepared they will be foung here.
Steering Committee Member Candidates
The following candidates...
Announcing the Raymond W. Smock Fellowship to support attendance at the annual meeting of the Association of Centers for the Study of Congress. The meeting is May 15-17, at the National Archives Research Center in Washington D.C. The 2024 meeting host is the Center for Legislative Archives.
The Smock Fellowship of $1000 is open to those who work at an ACSC member institution and have not previously attended an annual meeting. If you know someone who fits these criteria, please forward this to...
If you missed the SAS "UnBOXed" event on February 9 about the new SAS Buddy Program, or just prefer to hear the program summarized verbally rather than read about it, check out the recording here!
If the event has inspired you to look into joining the Buddy List program for 2023-2024, visit the sign-up form. Other details can be found on the microsite.
Any questions about the program? Or ideas for future UnBOXed events? Send those to your SAS steering committee at soloarchivists.saa@gmail....
The 2023 Winter Newsletter includes:
A letter from the MAS Chair, Tara Laver
News from the MAS section about the upcoming elections in Spring 2024
A report on the 90th anniversary celebrations at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art by Tara Laver
A report on preserving the film, The American Vision (1995) by Kelly Burton
Meet Your Fellow Archivist: Kelly Schulz
The SAA Preservation Section is asking for volunteers interested in the position of Member-at-Large to self-nominate for a special election!
This individual would serve on the SAA Preservation Section Steering Committee as a Member-at-Large and, once elected, be appointed as the Education Chair for a 2 year term (2024 - 2026) by the Preservation Section Chair.
If you are interested in nominating yourself, or would like to nominate someone else, please send the name and a 4 or 5 sentence...
The SAA Preservation Section is asking for volunteers interested in the position of Member-at-Large to self-nominate for a special election!
This individual would serve on the SAA Preservation Section Steering Committee as a Member-at-Large and, once elected, be appointed as the Education Chair for a 2 year term (2024 - 2026) by the Preservation Section Chair.
If you are interested in nominating yourself, or would like to nominate someone else, please send the name and a 4 or 5 sentence...
The Archival History Section steering committee invites members of the section and SAA to attend a virtual lecture on February 7, 12 PM EST, by archives and records management researcher Geoffrey Yeo. Yeo will speak about his two recent ventures into the field of archival history: his book Record-Making and Record-Keeping in Early Societies and his paper "Let Us See What Is Meant be the Word 'Recorde.'"
During his lecture, Yeo will address the following questions: Why did the topic of record...
The Congressional Papers Section (CPS) is holding a special election to fill the vacant seat on the steering committee left after Kate Gregory assumed the role of Chair.
You will be voting for:
One Steering Committee member (two-year term).
Ballots will be managed by SAA staff through Survey Monkey; keep an eye on your inbox for when the ballot opens!
Steering Committee Member Candidate
The following candidate is running for the vacant seat on the section steering committee:
Dina...
Bid our old name farewell and welcome the new the latest two issues of SOLO, the newsletter of the Solo Archivists Section.
The Fall 2023 issue (published in October under our former name of Lone Arrangers Section) includes messages from our incoming and outgoing chairs, a celebration of our section's 20th anniversary, and updates and reflections from members on instruction, family letters, and personal achievements during 2023.
The Special Edition 2023 issue (published in November) details the...
Greetings Solo Archivists!
I'm pleased to announce that our section's name change to "Solo Archivists Section" was just approved at the November SAA Council Meeting. Please be on the look-out for our upcoming special issue of SOLO, which will be appearing in your inboxes soon. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact the steering committee at soloarchivists.saa@gmail.com.
With kind regards,
Julie Yamashita
Chair
Solo Archivists Section, 2023-2024
Thank you to everyone who shared and voted in the most recent Accessibility and Disability Section election. While the Steering Committee was extremely pleased that it was a competitive race for our four vacancies, no one ran for the position of Vice Chair/Chair-Elect. Thus, it is necessary to hold a second election, and we are grateful to second-year Steering Committee member Joe Schill for nominating himself.
Vice Chair/Chair-Elect Candidate:
Joe Schill, Senior Archivist, Rakow Research...
Help shape the future of the Society of American Archivists' Students and New Professionals Section (SNAP)!
The SAA-SNAP Section provides educational outreach that furthers professional development, dialogue, and engagement. We host educational and networking webinars, twitter-chats, and other events; oversee the development and dialogue on our SNAP blog; help raise awareness of SAA’s vast professional resources (career development webinars, resume reviews, mentoring, job and internship boards...
The Archival Repatriation Committee is soliciting testimonials of archival repatriation, broadly construed as defined in the newly adopted Principles in Indigenous Archival Repatriation (PINAR).
We especially invite examples of efforts to physically return archival collections or documents, or to transfer ownership and control of such collections to traditional owners or Indigenous nations.
We welcome examples that were successful, unsuccessful, or mixed in outcome, and positive, negative, or...
Join us for an informal meeting to discuss Section updates, Archives Month, and share your latest news!
When: Friday, October 27 at 2pm Eastern / 1pm Central / 12pm Mountain / 11am Pacific / 10am Alaska / 8am Hawaii
RSVP: https://tinyurl.com/57nsh98f
Thank you to our excellent candidate for standing in the 2023 Public Library Archives and Special Collections (PLASC) Section election. Please take some time to review the candidate statement below so you can make an informed choice.
You will be voting for one Vice Chair/Chair-Elect (or Co-chair), 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 Candidates
Charmaine Bonner
Supervising Archivist...
(The following announcement was shared on the section listserv on September 11:)
The Section member's vote to adopt the new section name, "Solo Archivists Section" resulted in a 72.73% vote in favor of adoption, with a 27.27% vote against the adoption. Given this positive response, the new section name and updated bylaws have been submitted for approval by SAA Council, which will hopefully happen soon. I will notify you as soon as we get official approval of our name change. Thanks everyone so...
Standards Annual Report, 2022-2023
Vice Co-Chair Candidate
Caroline Collins
Biography
My name is Caroline Collins (she/her) and I am a local records archivist at the Library of Virginia in Richmond, Virginia. I received bachelor’s degrees in Information Science and History from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and I earned my MSIS from the University of Texas at Austin in 2021. While in Austin, I interned at the Briscoe Center for American History. Prior to my current position, I worked part-time as a library...
Ben Blake, Director, George Meany Labor Archives, University of Maryland, College Park
Steering Committee Statement
Before becoming the Director of the George Meany Labor Archives, University of Maryland, College Park in 2016, I had significant experience in labor archives, including two years at San Francisco State's Labor Archives and Research
Center and have been responsible for the archives of union records and labor related collections in Cleveland, Youngstown and Baltimore. I hold a BA in...
Vice Chair/Chair Elect Candidates:
Sophia McGuire
Biography: Sophia has been in the records & archives field since 2010, beginning her work as a student assistant in the Rare Books & Manuscripts Library at Ohio State. In 2013 Sophia pursued an MLIS at the University of Pittsburgh, with a focus in Archives & Records Management. Since then, Sophia has worked in a variety of capacities as a records manager & archivist, primarily in government records. Her work has encompassed...
Exciting stuff! The video of the 2023 VMS meeting has been posted here, and the approved standing rules have also been added to the website.
The Archivists and Archives of Color section is excited to announce the 2023 Membership Directory! So far we have collected over 160 entries. This year we created both a website and PDF version:
Website version
PDF version
We are also reopening the form for those who missed the first round and would like to be included in the directory. The form will close on August 31, 2023.
If you have an update or correction to your existing entry, or any questions, please email us at aacr.roundtable@gmail...
Steering Committee for Archival History Section, 2023-2024
Dane Flansburgh, Chair
Natalie Worsham, Vice-Chair
Elizabeth Jones-Minsinger, Early Career Member
Trevor Alvord, Member-at-Large
Caitlin Oiye Coon, Member-at-Large
Sebastian Modrow, Member-at-Large
Results are in from the 2023 Web Archiving Steering Committee elections!
Hope Dunbar – Vice Chair/Chair-Elect
Bio: I am currently the University Archivist at State University of New York at Buffalo. My role requires me to balance multiple priorities including departmental outreach, advocacy, acquisition, processing, and exhibits. A large part of moving into this role has been balancing physical and digital processing and capture. I feel strongly that born digital materials are likely...
