Here is the most recent issue of the Museum Archivist Newsletter, Summer 2021!
Contents include:Letters from Chair Sharad Shah and Incoming Chair Katrina O'BrienKatrina O'Brien - Dissolving a Museum and a CollectionJulie Rockwell - Reflections on Graduate Study Research: Born-Digital Collections Access and User Studies in Libraries, Archives and MuseumsInternship Profile - Cassandra Linder at the Ingalls Library & Museum Archives, Cleveland Museum of ArtAnna Rimel - Joseph Cornell Study...
Open Positions
Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect – 3-year term, September 2021 – August 2024Steering Committee Member (2 seats) – 3-year term, September 2021 – August 2024
Candidates
Vice Chair/Chair Elect
Lourdes Johnson
Steering Committee Member (2 seats)
Wendy Guerra
Catie Heitz
Heather Jager
Kendra Meyer
Kathryn Slover
Statements to Voters and Biographies
Vice Chair/Chair Elect
Lourdes Johnson
Greetings! My name is Lourdes Johnson. I am submitting my application to nominate myself as Vice-Chair...
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...
Issues and Advocacy Section 2021 Ballot
Vice Chair/Chair-Elect (vote for one)
Andrea Belair
Biographical Information and Candidate Statement:
At present, I am the Librarian for Archives and Special Collections at Union College, where I have been for three years. Prior to my current position, I was the Archivist at the Office of the President at Yale University for six years. My prior experience in the archival profession as well as outside of it has led me to develop a keen...
Thank you to all of our excellent candidates for standing in the 2021 Encoded Archival Standards (EAS) Section election. The EAS Section has three open positions for the 2021 election and three candidates running unopposed. Please take some time to review each candidate statement below.
You will be voting for:
One Junior Co-chair, for a two-year term, serving in year one as Junior Co-chair and in year two as Senior Co-chair; and
Two Steering Committee members, for two-year terms.
SAA staff...
If you missed the event, or you attended and did not have a chance to look at and contribute to the shared document created by the TS-GRD, please do so! The document will be open until September 30, 2021.
Congratulations and welcome to our newly-elected Steering Committee Members!Vice Chair - Micaela TerronezNewsletter Editor - Katy SternbergerRegional Representatives Lead - Julie Yamashita.
The results of the 2022 MARS election are in! Our MARS steering committee members for the 2022-2023 cycle are: Cara McCormick (Archives Manager at the Rand Corporation and MARS Chair); Beth Ann Koelsch Women Veterans Historical Project Curate at UNC-Greensboro, and Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect); and Matthew Peek (Associate Director of University of Houston-Clear Lake Archives and Special Collections, and MARS Communication Liaison). Former MARS Secretary Amy Mondt (Associate Director of the Sam...
STHC Section Jr. Co-Chair
Jennifer Langford
Archivist/Special Collections Librarian
University of Tennessee Health Sciences Center Memphis, TN
STHC Section Steering Committee Member 2019; Web Liason
DiAnna Hemsath
McGoogan Library, University of Nebraska Medical Center
Archivist
Junior Co-chair:
Gabrielle Barr Archivist Office of NIH History and Stetten Museum National Institute of Health
Member-at-Large:
Brandon T. Pieczko Digital and Special Collections Librarian Ruth Lilly Medical Library Indiana University School of Medicine
Junior Co-Chair: Brandon Pieczko
Steering Committee Members at Large:Nicole TopichEdith EscobedoTali HanJulia Pope
Early Career Member: Anna Marie Lucas
Read the latest newsletter from the International Council on Archives Section on Archives and Human Rights here! The SAHR Newsletter is written and compiled by Trudy Huskamp Peterson.
The latest episodes of the Lost in the Stacks Podcast features Colleen Marquis discussing archivists, librarians, and curators joining the Lecturers’ Employee Organization union at the University of Michigan.
Listen here.
Crafting Resistance challenged the idea of political prisoners as ‘passive victims’ which fails to recognise the degree of agency many prisoners retain despite the horrific circumstances they endure. During the military dictatorship of General Pinochet in Chile (1973-1990) hundreds of political prisoners were held in concentration camps throughout the country. In a number of these camps, prisoners organised themselves and crafted items from the very limited materials and improvised tools...
The Nelson Mandela Foundation has acquired an archival document with great historical significance. Dating from the final stages of the Treason Trial (1956-1961), it is an open letter by the trialists to the people of Britain calling for support in their defence against the apartheid state’s charges of treason. The letter features original signatures by the trialists, including Nelson Mandela, Lilian Ngoyi, Walter Sisulu and Ahmed Kathrada.Read more here.
In March 2021, Lecturer-rank employees at the University of Michigan Libraries—specifically the Librarians, Archivists, and Curators (LAC)—voted to form a union as part of the University of Michigan’s Lecturers’ Employees Organization. This involved coordinating among the Ann Arbor, Flint, and Dearborn campuses and setting standards and goals for all three work environments.
The members of SAA’s Issues and Advocacy section stand in solidarity with the union and, beyond signal boosting their...
Every Friday for the past nine weeks, artists and activists have been carrying on weekly rallies, assemblies and teach-ins in front of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City. Building on several years of earlier organizing work calling out the ties of board members at the Whitney Museum and MoMA to carceral violence, war and climate crisis, the Strike MoMA initiative was sparked early this year by revelations about the close association between museum chairman and private equity...
Twenty-two years after the National Security Archive published the notorious “Death Squad Dossier” of Guatemala – which chronicled the kidnapping and disappearance of 183 people by government agents over a period from 1983-85 – police arrested 11 former military and security force officials on varying charges of forced disappearance, torture, rape, and assassination connected to the document.Read more here.
Academics continuously loosen the concept of the archives in vigorous debate and flowery speech, while hundreds of linear feet of Black history are stacked in secure shelving, unbeknownst and inaccessible to implicated communities. “Why do we even have this?” is a recurring question whispered across institutions as complex histories of provenance and acquisitions lead to single box collections with titles like “Miscellaneous Slavery Documents,” a collection of Freedman’s Bureau papers and Bills...
On May 27th, 2021, the Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation announced the discovery of an unmarked burial site of 215 children at the former Kamloops Indian Residential School. The Archives Association of Ontario (AAO) wishes to express our deepest condolences to the families of the victims, the survivors, and all Indigenous peoples impacted by the discovery. We recognize that the findings serve as yet another example of the atrocities committed and enabled by white settlers, their churches and...
The agency added available historical records will be surveyed from federal repositories like the National Archives, the American Indian records repository and non-governmental organizations that operated Indian residential boarding schools.A final written report will be submitted to Haaland by April 1, 2022, and will be supervised by the office of the assistant secretary for Indian Affairs.“We must shed light on what happened at federal boarding schools,” Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary...
WARNING: This story contains details some readers may find distressing.
"The [Sisters of St. Anne's] remain unwilling to authorize disclosure of [its] records currently in the possession of the government of Canada," said Scott, in a statement to CBC News.
Several Catholic entities never turned over any records to the TRC. According to an internal TRC document obtained by CBC News, 17 Catholic entities failed to hand over any archival material to the commission.
"There are a lot of records in...
Since the year 1999, I’ve been on a journey to discover a call that transcends political necessity and, instead, calls on our inner humanity. In my oral history of the Ambedkarite community, I have been able to explore the significance of one such clarion call, expressed by Dr. B.R. Ambedkar at the All India Depressed Classes conference in July 1942 in Nagpur, India. His call to his followers was: Educate, Agitate, Organize.Dr. Ambedkar believed that caste-based marginalization had led millions...
In Professor Sheer Ganor’s course “History of the Holocaust,” students’ final projects were designed with three core goals: to highlight the spatial dimension of the Holocaust, to give students an opportunity to intimately learn individuals’ life stories, and to analyze primary sources and scholarly studies that shed further light on survivors’ stories.The students used StoryMaps, a digital platform intended for telling spatial stories. “[Story maps generally] use geography as a means of...
As part of the Cura Continua: Art, Curating, and Practices of Radical Care series hosted by the Art and Archaeology Department at Princeton, keynote speakers Mari Carmen Ramírez and Yasmin Ramírez were invited to speak on the transformative role of archives in the belligerent safeguarding of Latinx art, culture, and authenticity in America.Both Y. Ramírez and M.C. Ramírez spoke about their professional work in archival preservation. At the forefront of their discussion was the argument that the...
