Shape the future of SAA's Students and New Archives Professionals Section (SNAP)!
SNAP provides educational outreach that furthers professional development, dialogue, and engagement. We host educational and networking-forward webinars, as well as collaborative events with other sections of SAA; oversee the development and dialogue on our blog; amplify SAA’s vast professional resources, including career development webinars, resume reviews, mentoring, job and internship boards; and engage with...
It is time, once again, for the election of Steering Committee members. In addition to this election, there will be a proposal on the 2018 Museum Archives Section (electronic) ballot to change a part of the Museum Archives Section’s “Standing Rules.” The Standing Rules are like the Society for American Archivists bylaws, but concern only the conduct of the Museum Archives Section. The proposed change concerns the length of terms for some members of the Steering Committee and is intended to...
Netherlands archivist Arvid de Raaij is presenting for our first Archival Vistas of the year on Friday, March 20, at 1pm EDT. Arvid de Raaji will be discussing his knowledge and experience with Natural Language Processing techniques in the archival setting: "Curatorial Footprints and Data-Driven Methods for the Description of Archives."
Register now!
What happens when we allow archival material to describe itself?
Recent decades have seen a significant increase in digitization within the...
2025 Election: Candidate Statements
Thank you to all of our excellent candidates for standing in the 2025 Independent Archivists 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:
Chair (2 year commitment, 1 year as Chair, 1 year as Immediate Past Chair)
Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect (3 year commitment, 1 year as Vice-Chair, 1 year as Chair, 1 year as Immediate Past Chair)
1 Member-At...
Article 1. Name : Per the request this co-chair, and with the support of the Steering Committee, co-chairs Keith Reynolds and Lisa Calahan put out a call for volunteers to a Renaming Committee with the charge of finding a more inclusive name to reflect our Section's membership. Responding to the many wonderful suggestions made by the committee and LAGAS members, the Committee has put forward four names to be voted on by section members.
Diverse Sexuality and Gender Section (DSGS)...
The Business Archives Section is opening a position for an Early Career Member on the section steering committee. This position is intended for individuals starting out in the field to have an opportunity to be mentored by section leaders, and expand their leadership skills and resources. Immediate responsibilities will include supporting the Newsletter, the Quarterly Conference Calls, and the Education Director, but may be tailored to individual interests. This position is open to students and...
CALM seeks participants from across LAMs who will contribute to a discussion about how well we are doing (or not doing) on the various fronts of employment, continuing education, collection development, descriptive practices, etc. We seek participants with different perspectives - from those new to the profession to experienced professionals and anyone in between. This panel will address what we are doing well and what we can do better in order for LAMs to become more inclusive environments...
Vacant positions
Junior Co-Chair: 2 year term. First year serve as Junior Co-C hair, learn the ropes. Second year serve as Senior Co-Chair.
Secretary: 1 year term
Main responsibilities of vacant positions are providing leadership & direction for the Security Roundtable. This includes, but is not limited to, planning the annual meeting, holding additional meetings as needed to evaluate activities/direction of roundtable, sending relevant announcements to the roundtable via the listserv, and...
On Tuesday July 25th, members of the SAA Business Archives Section (BAS) were treated to a behind the scenes tour of the Nike Archives in Portland, Oregon. The tour was hosted by Scott Reames (Content Director/Historian) and Rick Shannon (Director), along with the Department of Nike Archives (DNA) staff. Began in 2006, DNA is “Dedicated to collecting, protecting, and proactively leveraging decades of organizational memory and historical assets to Nike’s strategic advantage.” Today the...
Samantha Bradbeer, Archivist and Historian, Hallmark Cards, Inc.
Samantha Bradbeer spends her days at Hallmark making sure that an accurate and varied record of company, family, and product history is preserved for future generations.
As the company archivist and historian, Bradbeer oversees the preservation of advertisements, audio visual materials, chromolithographs, company records, greeting cards and other products, original artwork, postcards, progressive proof books, rare books, prints...
About
Business Archives Section Quarterly is an online quarterly publication of the Business Archives Section of the Society of American Archivists that seeks to provide a forum for a variety of relevant issues in the field of corporate and business archives and share important news, findings, and highlights with members of the Business Archives section.
Submission Guidelines
The Business Archives Section Quarterly welcomes feature articles of any length exploring the theme-related issue of...
Recently, the BAS Steering Committee put out a survey to solicit the section's opinions on a salary requirement for job postings on various SAA outlets. This was a much talked about topic at this year's SAA Annual Meeting in Austin. As the conversation moves forward, we consider it paramount that any potential statement by the BAS accurately reflect the opinions of its members. We would like to share the results of this survey.
Due to the prevalence of this topic at the 2019 Annual Meeting, we...
Beth Cron and Courtney Bailey had a good conversation with Seth Shaw and Jeremy Gibson about open source records management tools. If you didn’t have a chance to join, you can view it here.
On February 8, the Records Management Section hosted a Hangout with Snowden Becker of the UCLA Department of Information Studies to discuss law enforcement body-worn camera footage and recordings. If you missed the Hangout, you can watch the recorded version here. In addition, Snowden prepared some...
Thank you to all of our excellent candidates for standing in the 2024 User Experience 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:
2 Steering Committee members (term ending August 2024).
We are also voting to approve our Section standing rules, as detailed below. The proposed rules are an important step to formalizing governance of the User Experience Section and were open...
Vice Chair/Chair-Elect
Justin Kovar is the Audio and Moving Image Archivist for the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History at the University of Texas at Austin and has been at the Center since 2011. Previous to that he was a Graduate Research Assistant for the University's Historical Music Recordings Collections and intern for the Texas Archive of the Moving Image. Justin earned his MSIS Degree from the School of Information at the University of Texas at Austin, and is an ACA certified...
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
Thank you to all of our excellent candidates for standing in the 2025 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 Vice Chair/Chair-Elect (or Co-chair), for a two-year term; and
[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/...
Recording available. Timestamps for each session have been added to the program below
Museum Archives Symposium
Friday, May 10, 2024
Yale University Art Gallery
1111 Chapel Street
New Haven, CT
Prompted by the 2022 SAA publication, Museum Archives: Practice, Issues, Advocacy, the Yale Center for British Art and SAA’s Museum Archives Section are hosting a one-day symposium to examine the current position and future directions of the museum archives field. The symposium will be held in person...
The SAA Statement of Core Values and Code of Ethics includes eleven core values. Among them is Social Responsibility. In fulfilling its charge to investigate and recommend changes to SAA’s annual meeting, the Social Responsibility Subgroup has been looking into ways in which the annual meeting can help us to be better local, national and global citizens. We've been focusing mainly on three areas:
Fair labor practices
A labor dispute at the Hyatt Regency during SAA's 2011 meeting in Chicago...
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...
Thank you to everyone who was able to us at the Museum Archives Section Business Meeting at the CoSA - NAGARA - SAA Joint Annual Meeting that took place on Friday, August 15 at 12:30PM (Marriott Wardman Park, Room Washington 2 [Exhibition Level])
Business Meeting Agenda:
12:30 – 12:35 p.m. Greeting and Introductions – Outgoing Cochairs Heidi Abbey and Jennie Thomas
12:35 – 12:50 p.m. Survey Results – Heidi Abbey
12:50 – 12:55 p.m. Ballot Results and New Officer Introductions – Incoming...
Slate of candidates for 2023 IA steering committee
Incoming Vice-Chair, class of 2026
Deb Eschweiler (She/Her)
Job Title: Editor | Media Asset Manager | Audiovisual Archivist (self-employed)
Bio: With a video editing career spanning over 3 decades, Deb Eschweiler has been shepherding analog and digital media, organizing project elements, and safeguarding client’s media legacies since before she could put a name to the process. Her undergraduate studies included a minor in history and a...
The Crisis, Disaster, and Tragedy Response Working Group (CDTRWG) will hold an open business meeting on Friday, July 15, 2022 from 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM (CT) leading up to ARCHIVES*RECORDS 2022.
We'll begin with a brief introduction of the charge of the Crisis, Disaster, and Tragedy Response Working group and then update participants on the working group activities for the past year, and make any relevant working group announcements.
We are delighted to be hosting guest speaker John Chambers...
Thanks to everyone who attended the joint annual meeting of the Encoded Archival Standards (EAS) Section and the Technical Subcommittee on Encoded Archival Standards (TS-EAS) on June 20, 2023. A recording of the meeting is available at the Society of American Archivists' events site:
https://www.pathlms.com/saa/events/4935/event_sections/13594/video_presentations/265843
This year, our annual meeting included updates from TS-EAS and EAS Section leaders, and the Building a National Finding Aid...
The new issue of information, observations, and things to ponder can be found in pdf form here
Secure Your Stuff
Section Research Volunteer, Jeff Lundgren, asks if you have done a “systems review” in starting the new year off right. He explains some reasons why this part of every-day security awareness is so important. This is followed by a few more tips on securing your stuff, continued from the November 2020 text in our First Encounter
Quiz
What do you know about...
