The International Archival Affairs Section (IAAS) was awarded the 2025 SAA Council Exemplary Service Award at the 89th Annual Meeting of the Society of American Archivists in Anaheim, CA.
This award recognizes IAAS for its vibrant outreach between SAA membership and international archivists through its dedicated programming efforts, which have forged connections between SAA, its members, and the wider global community of archivists and their archives.
Two of our past Senior Co-Chairs--both...
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Thank you to everyone who shared and responded to the 2025 Accessibility and Disability Section election call for candidates! We appreciate all seven of the nominations that we received and are glad to see a full slate and another competitive election. The names and statements of the candidates are posted below. Please take a few minutes to review them.
Section members will be voting for:
3 Steering Committee members (two-year terms)
1 Vice Chair/Chair-Elect (one-year term)
Ballots will be...
The Archival History Section steering committee invites members of the section and SAA to attend a virtual lecture on February 11 at 12 PM EST, by Heather MacNeil. MacNeil is a professor in the Faculty of Information of the University of Toronto, Canada. In her article, “Tacit Narratives in the Manuscript Collections of Matthew Parker and Robert Cotton,” which was published by Archivaria in 2024, she explored the ideologies that shaped the collecting and ordering of knowledge in two early...
The Steering Committee of the Archival History Section is pleased to invite you to our annual meeting on July 31 from 1:00pm to 2:30pm CT (beginning 2:00 pm EST, 12:00 pm MT, 11:00 am PT). We will report on business of the year and present the Archival History Article Awards. Then, we will hear from invited speaker, Christopher Livingston, Director, Historical Research Center at California State University, Bakersfield about the current work at the HRC. Below is a biography and summary of his...
It has come to our attention SAA changed its operating systems in April. Your settings for receiving emails from the BAS Listserv defaulted to 'Daily Digest'. If you would like to change that to 'Real Time' or 'Weekly Digest' please visit:
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Thank you to all of our excellent candidates for standing in the 2024 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 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...
Meet our wonderful slate of candidates for the 2018 WCS election! The two individuals receiving the most votes will serve as Co-Vice Chairs during 2018-2019 and as Co-Chairs of the section in 2019-2020.
Danielle Butler
Biography
I am currently an archivist at the Butler Center for Arkansas Studies, a department of the Central Arkansas Library System, in Little Rock, Arkansas. I completed an undergraduate degree in History at Ouachita Baptist University in 2014 and completed a masters degree in...
Dear IAAS and SAA members,
One of our Members-at-Large, Jenifer Monger, was elected the new International Archival Affairs Section (IAAS) Junior Co-Chair! As a result, one of our three Members-at-Large positions is now open for a special election. This position will be at a bare minimum around five hours per month, but it can be more dependent on what projects the individual would like to take on. We are always eager to hear about new and exciting ideas for the section! This is a three-year...
Joint meeting of the Museum Archives (MAS) and Science, Technology, and Health Care (STHC) Sections
23 July 2025, 11:00 - 12:30 CST
Attendance: 54
I. Welcome and Introductions
II. SAA Council updates (Eira Tansey)
○ Statements in response to current events available on SAA site
○ Next leadership meeting: September 25th
III. STHC Business*
IV. MAS Chair’s Report (Laura Uglean-Jackson)
○ Thanks to 2024-2025 MAS leadership: Kelly Schulz (Newsletter Editor), Lena Hansen (Web Liaison...
Dear IAAS Members and SAA Community,
Please give a warm welcome to our newest International Archival Affairs Section (IAAS) Junior Co-Chair: Jenifer Monger!
Thank you to all who voted, and a big thank you to all the candidates. We really appreciate your passion and desire to contribute to the IAAS! As Ms. Monger was previously a Member-at-Large, we will be having an upcoming special election to fill our open Member-at-Large position. Please keep your eye out for future information regarding...
Please join the Metadata and Digital Object Section in welcoming the following individuals to our 2025-2026 MDOS Steering Committee:
Junior Co-Chair:
Warren Lambert, Digitization Specialist / University of Kansas Libraries
Steering Committee Members:
Tyler Cline, Digital Archivist / UNC Charlotte
Brenna Edwards, Manager for Digital Archives / Harry Ransom Center
Ugoma Smoke, Research Assistant in Native and Indigenous Archives and Linked Data / University of Maryland
Michelle Witt,...
The STHC Section is proud to announce the results of our 2025 election.
J.E. Molly Seegers will serve as Junior Co-Chair (2025-2027)
Caitlin Rizzo will serve as Member-at-Large (2025-2028)
Welcome Molly and Caitlin!
SAA's Science, Technology and Health Care Section has initiated a project to highlight underrepresented and diverse persons and groups documented in archival collections on the history of STEM and medicine. The hope is that the shared information will be a useful resource for researchers. All archival repositories are encouraged to contribute information for inclusion on the STHC "Unsung Heroes" webpage.
As announced at the ERS annual section meeting Monday, July 20th, 2025, the results of the section election are in, and the new members of the ERS steering committee are:
Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect: Lara Friedman-Shedlov, Digital Records Archivist at the University of Minnesota
Steering Committee Member (full term): Doreen Dixon, Electronic Records Archivist at Drake University
Steering Committee Member (interim): Rebecca Hastings, Digital Archivist at University of Idaho
Our section standing...
You can make an impact by joining SAA's Accessioning, Acquisitions, and Appraisal (AA&A) Section by nominating yourself or recommending others for a leadership position on the AA&A Section Steering Committee.
We are seeking individuals for the following three positions:
(1) Vice Chair/Chair Elect (3-year commitment as Vice Chair, Chair, and Immediate Past Chair)
(2) At-Large Members (2-year commitment)
Steering committee members spend an average of a few hours per month working on...
The 2021-2022 Steering Committee met for the first time in September to discuss our goals for the upcoming year, and we are looking forward to continuing with our Coffee Chats and publishing some great content in the form of blog and Twitter posts. We would also love for people in our section to get involved and share their ideas, so we invite you to participate by submitting news, announcements, and topics of interest. We also welcome guest contributors to the blog, so please feel free to...
2025 Election Candidates
It is that time of the year again - SAA elections season! Thank you to our excellent candidates for standing in the 2025 Oral History Section elections. Please take some time to review their candidate statements and get to know them so you can make an informed choice.
This year, you will be voting for: One (1) Vice Chair/Chair-Elect, for a three-year term, and two (2) Steering Committee members, each for a two-year term.
Ballots will be managed by SAA staff. Keep an...
Congratulations to the following winner of our most recent election!
-Junior Co-chair / Elected Senior Co-chair: A.R. Flynn
-Social Media and Web Liaison: Kate Burns
Welcome to the Steering Committee, which is as follows:
-Senior Co-chair: Jordi Padilla-Delgado
-Junior Co-chair / Elected Senior Co-chair: A.R. Flynn
-Social Media and Web Liaison: Kate Burns
-Members: Max Flowers and Lou Hines
And also welcome to Early-Career Members Madison Newport and Lark Wilson. Thank you all for your...
Thank you to all of our excellent candidates for standing in the 2025 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 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...
Vice Chair/Chair-Elect:
Alex Palma
Lasallian Legacy Baltimore District
Philadelphia branck of Lasallian DENA Archives
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Bio:
Alex Palma is an Archivist for the Lasallian District of Eastern North America and works out of La Salle University. Prior to his current role, Alex served in a variety of different capacities at Museums and Historic Sites throughout Philadelphia. He is a proud member of the Organizing Team for Archives 4 Black Lives in Philadelphia, he is...
Karen Trivette, PhD recruiter of Archival Science Faculty and Students at Alma Mater Europaea University-European Center Maribor, Slovenia, will be inducted as a Fellow of the Society of American Archivists (SAA) during an awards ceremony at the Annual Meeting of SAA in Anaheim, CA. The distinction of Fellow is the highest honor bestowed on individuals by SAA and is awarded for outstanding contributions to the archives profession.
Specifically related to the International Archival Affairs...
Dear SAA members!
I am thrilled to announce the final Archival Landscapes Seminar for the 2024-2025 season from the International Archival Affairs Section (IAAS).
As you might recall, the Archival Landscapes virtual seminar series began in 2020. In each seminar, an international guest speaker introduces participants to the issues and advancements in their local context, describing the history, operating environment and unique aspects of archival practice in their country. Past series' programs...
The Accessioning, Acquisitions, and Appraisal Section Steering Committee has proposed the following wording changes to the section's standing rules to acknowledge maintenance of the Archival Accessioning Best Practices. Section members will vote on these changes during the upcoming election.
The proposed wording changes are underlined below:
I. PurposeThe purpose of the Accessioning, Acquisitions, and Appraisal Section of the Society of American Archivists (SAA) is to provide a forum for...
The election results are in!
Please welcome our new steering committee members Yolanda Hester and Molly Copeland.
Yolanda Hester is an oral historian and a public historian. She is currently the project
director of the Arthur Ashe Oral History Project at Arthur Ashe Legacy at UCLA, where
she oversees an extensive oral history project of the tennis champion.
Molly Copeland (she/her) is the Manuscripts Archivist at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, where she is responsible for the...
