The SAA Oral History Section invites you to join us Thursday, September 26, 2024 at 1-2pm EST for a community chat with Archivist David Olson about his recently published article in the American Archivist, “Forms, Formations, and Reforms,” on the evolution of the oral history release form from its origins to current practices and future trends. The event will consist of a conversation between Olson and OHS Chair Cyrana Dowell, followed by an audience Q&A. We encourage you to read the...
Thank you to our excellent candidates for standing in the 2026 Solo Archivists Section election. Please take some time to review their candidate statements so you can get to know them.
You will be voting for:
One Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect (two-year term); and
One Events Coordinator (two-year term); and
One Member-at-Large (two-year term)
Ballots will be managed by SAA staff through Survey Monkey; keep an eye on your inbox for when the ballot opens in June.
Meet the 2026 Candidates:
Vice-Chair/...
Thank you to all the excellent candidates for standing in the 2026-2027 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...
Heads up for anyone with an interest in video game preservation: The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is seeking an exemption to the Prohibition on Circumvention of Copyright Protection Systems for Access Control Technologies (17 USC §1201(a)(1)). The exemption is proposed for users who want to modify “videogames that are no longer supported by the developer, and that require communication with a server,” in order to serve player communities who want to keep maintain the functionality of...
Emma Barton-Norris (she/her) is the Processing Archivist at Bowdoin College Library in Brunswick, Maine, on the ancestral homelands of the Wabanaki. She earned her MLIS from the University of Iowa in 2023, where her work with the Iowa Women’s Archives and the State Historical Society of Iowa included processing collections from the Iowa Labor Collection and the Iowa Labor History Oral Project, experiences that continue to shape her understanding of archives as sites of labor and power. Within...
Thank you to our candidates for standing for the 2026 Women Archivists Section election.
Section members, please review the candidate statements below to learn more about them before voting.
You will be voting for:
One Vice Chair/Chair-elect, for a three-year term
Two Steering Committee members, each for a three-year term
Ballots will be managed by SAA staff. Please keep an eye on your inbox for when the ballot opens!
Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect
Candace Pine, Rare Books and Manuscripts Librarian...
The agendas for the BAS Colloquium & Section Meeting at the 2017 SAA Conference are now available! We invite you to participate in our colloquium, scheduled for Wednesday afternoon (7/26) focused on "Finding Inspiration in Your Company History Using Media and Design," as well as our section meeting on Friday afternoon (7/28), providing updates on all our projects this year & announcing the election results. We look forward to seeing everyone in Portland.
TS-EAD has been working hard to complete the development of EAD3. The core schema was redesigned this fall to support the creation of derivative forms, including Relax NG, XSD, and DTD versions, along with undeprecated versions of each. Many bugs were squashed along the way as well. The stable development version of the schema can be found at https://github.com/SAA-SDT/EAD-Revision/tree/develop.
Currently we are focused on developing the migration style sheet and finalizing the tag library...
Read the most recent issue of the Museum Archivist Newsletter--Winter 2021!
Contents include:
A message from our MAS Chair member Katrina O'Brien
A report from the MAS Standards and Best Practices Committee submitted by co-chairs Rachel Chatalbash and Megan Schwenke
Meet your fellow archivist – Anastasia Karel and Rachel Hancock from the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields
A new digital archive dedicated to the Kress Collection at the National Gallery of Art submitted by Shannon Morelli...
by Cristina Vignone, Education Chair, Business Archives Section
In order to further explore the topic of business archives and exhibitions, the BAS held an industry-wide call on the topic on April 27, 2020.
Over 70 members of the section gathered virtually for presentations by five BAS members—Elizabeth McGorty, Archivist & Records Manager at the Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corporation; Cristina Vignone, Associate Archivist & Manager of Research Services at Tiffany & Co.; Neil...
Candidates for Vice Chair/Chair-Elect (one three-year term):
Leah Rios
BiographyLeah Rios-Wicklein is an archivist in the Prints & Photographs Division at the Library of Congress, where she works extensively with 20th century documentary photography, prints, and drawings. Her work centers on stewarding and expanding access to large-scale collections, with particular emphasis on the contributions of women photojournalists and African American photographers and printmakers. She began her...
The Archivists and Archives of Color Section Steering Committee is excited to announce the excellent slate of candidates running in this year’s election. Please review their bios and statements before casting your votes.
You will be voting for:
2 Co-chairs (2-year term)
2 Steering Committee Members (2-year term)
1 Newsletter Editor (2-year term)
SAA staff administer ballots through Survey Monkey and will email you the ballot when voting opens.
Co-Chair
Arthur CarlsonDirector of ARC...
2026 Election: Candidate Statements
Thank you to all of our excellent candidates for standing in the 2025 Issues and 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 Chair for a one-year term
One Vice Chair, for a two-year term; and
2 Steering Committee members (two year terms).
We are also voting on an edit to our Section standing rules, as detailed below.
Ballots...
Thank you to all of our excellent candidates for standing in the 2026 STHC Section election. Please review the candidate statements and get to know them so you can make an informed choice. We are electing a Junior Co-chair for 2026-2028, and a Member At Large for 2026-2029.
The Junior Co-chair serves two years, with the second year as acting Senior Co-chair. Co-chairs develop and implement section events, schedule steering committee meetings, communicate with SAA leadership, and...
On April 9th we hosted Rachel Taketa and Amanda Norman from the Opioid Industry Documents Archive for an incredible discussion about their work making opioid industry records available for researchers, lawyers, and the public.
Resources and the recording is now available on our Archival Elements Blog.
Thank you to Rachel and Amanda!
You will be voting for: • The Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect (2026-2029)• Two Steering Committee Members (2026-2029)• Updates to the ERS Section Standing Rules
Ballots will be managed by SAA staff; keep an eye on your inbox for when the ballot opens!
Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect Candidate (one open seat)
Amal AhmedArchives & Records Management Specialist 2, New York State Archives
Amal Ahmed is an audiovisual archivist and writer. She has recently started a position at the New York State Archives, as an...
Thank you to all who considered participating as a candidate for standing in the 2026 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:
Vice Chair/Chair-Elect, for a two-year term
Communications Liaison, for a two-year term
Chair, for a one-year term [special election]
The Chair position for the MARS Section for 2026-2027 is currently vacant. Tarienne Mitchell...
2026 Election: Candidate Statements
Thank you to all of our excellent candidates for standing in the 2026 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) Secretary, for a term of two (2) years....
The special election results are in!
Please welcome our new steering committee member Matt Strandmark. Patrick Daglaris, who has been a steering committee member since September 2024, becomes vice-chair/chair-election.
Patrick is the archivist and assistant department head for the Oklahoma Oral History Research Program at the Oklahoma State University Library, where he oversees the collection management and digital preservation of their 2,800+ interview holdings.
Matt is an education archivist...
Thank you to all of our excellent candidates standing in the 2024 Business Archives Section (BAS) election. Please take some time to review their statements and get to know them so you can make an informed choice.
You will be voting for one candidate for each of the following positions:
Vice Chair/Chair-Elect, three-year term
Secretary, one-year term
Vice Editor/Editor-Elect, two-year term
Education Chair, one-year term
Member-at-Large, one-year term
Ballots will be managed by SAA staff;...
Thank you to all of our extraordinary candidates for standing in the 2026 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, for a three-year term; and
Two 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...
Just like Congress itself, it's election season for CPS as well. Below are the candidate statements for our three nominees this year. Be on the lookout for ballots in June.
Vice-Chair/Chair Elect
Shir Bach, Congressional Papers Archivist, University of Vermont Silver Special Collections Library
I am a congressional papers archivist at the University of Vermont, where I work on a team project funded by a Senate Preservation Partnership Grant to process the papers of Senator Patrick Leahy. I...
SAA’s Technical Subcommittee on Reappraisal and Deaccessioning seeks comment on the revised draft of the standard for reappraisal and deaccessioning.
Please review the draft here.
A short comment form makes it easy to share your thoughts on the draft.
Comments should be received by Friday, May 15th to ensure consideration.
Thank you to all of our excellent candidates for standing in the 2026 Accessioning, Acquisitions, & Appraisal 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 (three-year term); and
Two 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/...
