This document details the proposed changes to the bylaws with track changes. Please contact Beth Cron with any questions bethany.cron@nara.gov.
The proposed Records Management Roundtable bylaws were accepted by SAA Council at their May 2015 meeting. You can view the final bylaws in the attachment with all the changes accepted. We will be using these bylaws going forward including for the upcoming election.
Please contact Beth Cron at bethany.cron@nara.gov with any questions!
Hello Records Management Roundtable!
Are you going to be at SAA in August? Do you have a records management question or a topic you would like to share with the roundtable?
For the Annual Meeting in August, the roundtable meeting (Friday 8/21, 4:30-6:00) is collecting presentation ideas for lightning talks (about 5 minutes) after the business meeting. Along those lines, are there pressing issues, exciting developments, or otherwise unaddressed topics you’d like to discuss during the meeting?...
Please join the Records Management Roundtable at SAA 2015 for a series of lightning talks on various records management topics. We have a great lineup and look forward to having good discussions. The meeting will be held Friday, August 21 from 4:30 - 6:00pm in the Grand Ballroom A at the Cleveland Convention Center. If you can't attend follow along with #rmrt #saa15. The agenda is available here.
For the agenda, we will have a brief business meeting with announcements followed by these...
Please read the biographies and statements of interest for the 2017 Records Management Steering Committee candidates: http://www2.archivists.org/groups/records-management-section/2017-candidates-for-records-management-section-steering-committee
Please read the biographies and statements of interest for the 2018 Records Management Steering Committee candidates: https://www2.archivists.org/groups/records-management-section/2018-candidates-for-records-management-section-steering-committee-
The Section's membership will also be asked to approve proposed standing rules changes. You may review them here: https://www2.archivists.org/groups/records-management-section/proposed-2018-standing-rules-changes
Thank you to all our excellent nominees for the 2020 Records Management Section steering committee election. Please take some time to review their candidate statements and get to know them.
You will be voting for:
Vice Chair/Chair-Elect, who will then serve one year as Chair and one year as Immediate Past Chair;
Steering Committee member (three-year term); and
Early Career Members (one-year term).
Ballots will be managed by SAA staff through Survey Monkey; keep an eye on your inbox for...
SAA’s Records Management Section sponsors a peer-reviewed case study series that seeks to support the practical as well as the theoretical and scholarly aspects of the records and information management (RIM) profession.
Suggested case study length is 2,500 to 5,000 words. Elements of the case study include:
introduction
background/prior relevant work/institutional context
challenge addressed
strategies and resources employed
analysis of successes and setbacks
future plans
Illustrations,...
Ballot choices
Vice-chair/chair-elect (one vacancy):
Ryan Leimkuehler
University Records Manager and Assistant Professor at Kansas State University
Biography:
As the records manager for KSU for the past 4 years he has focused on training, outreach, and records retention guidance for the university community. Ryan is a member of the Midwest Archives Conference, Kansas City Area Archivist, and the Society of American Archivists and serves as a steering committee member for the Records Management...
Vice Chair/Chair Elect Candidates
Jessika Drmacich
Biography:
Jessika is Williams College’s Records Manager and Digital Resources Archivist. This is her seventh year serving on the records management steering committee most recently as Vice-Chair and Chair. Based in Williamstown Massachusetts, Jessika leads the records management program and navigates records policies specific to small liberal arts colleges. She also leads digital preservation, web archiving, and community archiving. She...
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...
One open Vice Chair position
Autumn Oakey
Autumn Oakey is a Library Assistant at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, where she has worked in archives and libraries for three years. She manages physical records transfers, provides staff and departmental records management training, and updates university retention schedules. She graduated with her bachelor's degree in history from UW-Whitewater in 2021. Additionally, Autumn is working toward a master's in library and information science...
Danielle Hall - Vice Chair/Chair Elect
University Records Manager/Assistant Professor
Morse Department of Special Collections, Kansas State University Libraries
Steering Committee
Caroline Browning-Hess
Digital Archivist, North Wind Group
Caroline M Browning Hess is a Digital Archivist with experience in cultural heritage preservation, unique metadata creation, and archival processing. Currently serving on a federal contract with North Wind Group, she collaborates with a digitization team for a...
For those who couldn’t attend the Records Management Roundtable meeting at SAA 2015, I wanted to provide a summary. We had about 60 people turn out for the meeting on August 21, 2015. I started the meeting by describing some of our activities from the past year, such as our revised bylaws, the contributions of the steering committee to The Schedule blog, and changes to the newsletter. We only had one Google Hangout over the last year and we would like to hold more. This is a good opportunity...
Courtney Bailey
I have a master's degree with a concentration in archives and records management from the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. I have been an SAA member since 2011, and I have been working as a records management analyst at the State Archives of North Carolina since 2014. I recognize there are many records management initiatives currently taking place at the national, state, and local levels, especially in regards to...
Nominations for Chair
Beth Cron
Beth Cron is a Senior Records Management Policy Analyst at the National Archives and Records Administration. She is a member of the Records Management Policy and Outreach Section within the Office of the Chief Records Officer. Her team has produced guidance on social media records, cloud computing, and email archiving applications. Beth is a 2008 graduate of the School of Information at the University of Michigan and she specialized in Archives and Records...
Thank you to all our excellent nominees for the 2019 Records Management Section steering committee 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, who will then serve one year as Chair and one year as Immediate Past Chair; and
Two Steering Committee members (three-year terms).
We will include with the ballot survey questions to enable the section membership to...
Visit the PLASC Blog, The Finding Aid, to read a new post about establishing a digitization memory lab at Midwest Genealogy Center at the Mid-Continent Public Library!
The Memory Lab is a tool that democratizes access to the equipment and knowledge needed to archive personal collections at no cost.
Read the full Story: Demystifying DIY Digitization - An inside look at the public library memory lab
Links Below!
It is time to vote for the 2025-2026 PLASC section Steering Committee!
You will be voting for:
- One Co-Chair, for a two year term
- One Secretary, for a one year term
Nazelie Doghramadjian
Secretary
PhD Candidate, University of Michigan School of Information
Bio:
Nazelie Doghramadjian is a doctoral candidate at the University of Michigan School of Information. Her research focuses on intellectual choices made in the Armenian community in the United States when preserving their records and...
Register now for the Awards Committee annual meeting!
Date: Thursday, July 22, 2021
Time: 2:00-3:00pm (CT)
Please join the Awards Committee to discuss this year's awards cycle--what went well, what could be improved, and any questions you have or ideas for next year. Members of all awards subcommittees and any SAA members are welcome to attend.
This is a free event but you'll need to register in advance here: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwof-uurzIvHtaWlSqVHbuZNiiCK656Ok68
We hope to see...
By Emily Cottle
Emily Cottle kicks off the program. Photograph courtesy Ryan Donaldson.
Nearly 30 corporate and religious archivists from the MARAC region and beyond gathered at our spring conference in Hershey for MARAC’s second ever Business Archives Forum. The forums are a full-day of programming for business archivists to network with colleagues and hear presentations focused on the unique challenges of the corporate environment.
The day began with a presentation from Winthrop Group’s...
By Kerri Anne Burke, Global Curator, Citi Heritage Collection
Bob Clark of the Rockefeller Archives Center, L.J. Strumpf of the IBM Archives and I spoke at the Spring 2018 joint meeting of the New England Archivists and Archivists Round Table of Metropolitan New York. The panel was organized and moderated by Jamie Martin of the IBM Archives. The panelists spoke on the value of business records and how business archivists must advocate the worth of business records to internal audiences,...
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...
Read candidate statements for the 2021/2022 Election
Detail illustration from the 200 East 42nd Street marketing brochure, 1958. Illustration features the front entrance of the building, located on 42nd Street and Third Avenue. Durst Archives.
By Ryan Donaldson, Senior Manager of Heritage and Information Services
Founded in 1915, The Durst Organization (“Durst”) is a family-run business dedicated to the principles of innovation, integrity, community, and sustainability. Durst develops, builds, owns, and manages premier office towers and...
