The RAO Section is organizing a Community Call to encourage discussion and support among SAA members. The focus of this Community Call will be on how the RAO community has been doing reference and outreach during this time of varied work environments. We hope this call will allow members to share challenges and successes, whether you are working remotely, in a hybrid model, or fully back in the reading room.
Please join us on Tuesday, November 10 from 12:30pm – 2pm EST. Feel free to drop in...
RAO Election Results are in!
On behalf of the RAO Nominating Committee I would like to thank you to all the candidates who ran for leadership positions in the Reference, Access, and Outreach Section of SAA. And another thank you to all who voted in the election.
The successful candidates, and upcoming leaders in RAO are as follows:
Cinda Nofziger- Vice Chair/Chair Elect (2020-2021)
Greta Browning- Steering Committee Member (2020-2022)
Daria Labinsky- Steering Committee Member (2020-2022)...
We are pleased to present the candidates for the 2020-2021 RAO election ballot. We hope you will carefully review the candidate statements before voting.
Thanks to the nominations and election subcommittee and to our steering committee members who have finished their terms.
The following positions are up for election:
1 Vice Chair / Chair Elect (3 year term, serving 1 year each as vice chair, chair, and immediate past chair)
2 Member at Large positions on the Steering Committee (2 year term...
Did you pilot a creative, remote project during COVID-19?
As a part of the 2020 Annual Meeting of the Society of American Archivists, the Reference, Access, & Outreach (RAO) section will host its 8th annual Marketplace of Ideas. The Marketplace of Ideas takes place in conjunction with the annual RAO business meeting, and offers participants a chance to learn more about creative instruction, outreach, and reference programs piloted by colleagues. This year, COVID-19 brought unexpected...
Are you looking to shape the future direction and activities of the Reference, Access, and Outreach Section? Put yourself forward for an elected RAO position!
The Nominating Committee seeks nominations from all current RAO members for these vacancies:
Two Steering Committee members, for two-year terms
One Vice-Chair / Chair Elect, for a three-year term. (The successful candidate will serve one year as Vice-Chair, one year as RAO Chair, and one year as Immediate Past Chair).
We value a...
Thank you to all of our excellent candidates for standing in the 2019 Reference, Access, and Outreach 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 three-year term (Successful candidate will serve one year as Vice-Chair, will automatically become the RAO Chair for the following year, and will serve one year as Immediate Past...
Thank you to all of our excellent candidates for standing in the 2024 User Experience 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:
Vice Chair/Chair-Elect
Member-at-Large
Ballots will be managed by SAA staff through Survey Monkey; keep an eye on your inbox for when the ballot opens!
Candidates:
Vice Chair/Chair Elect:
Candidate Name and Role:
Theresa Berger, Head of Digital Library...
Thank you to all our excellent candidates for standing in the 2022 Congressional Papers 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 two-year term; and
Three Steering Committee members
Ballots will be managed by SAA staff through Survey Monkey; keep an eye on your inbox for when the ballot opens.
Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect Candidates
The following...
Thank you to all of our excellent candidates for standing in the 2025 Visual Materials 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 three-year term; and
Two Steering Committee members (one three-year term, one two-year term).
Ballots will be managed by SAA staff through Survey Monkey; keep an eye on your inbox for when the ballot...
Help shape the future of the Society of American Archivists' Students and New Professionals Section (SNAP)!
The SAA-SNAP Section provides educational outreach that furthers professional development, dialogue, and engagement. We host educational and networking webinars, and other events; oversee the development and dialogue on our SNAP blog; help raise awareness of SAA’s vast professional resources (career development webinars, resume reviews, mentoring, job and internship boards, etc.); and...
Thank you to all who considered participating as a candidate for standing in the 2025 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 termSecretaryThe new Chair of the MARS Section will be Jeffrey Kozak, who was elected as the Vice Chair/Chair-Elect in 2024. Amy Mondt will continue to serve as the MARS Communications Liaison for the...
By Meredith Torre, Archivist, Atlanta Housing Authority
The archival program at Atlanta Housing (AH) began October 2014. The AH Archives collects and preserves records of permanent and historical value dating back to the 1930's. These records document the history of public housing, the history of the United States' first federally funded public housing projects beginning in Atlanta, and the innovative role AH played in shaping public housing policy and history
To find out more, check out the...
Backcountry parkas and prototypes from the 1970s are some of the earliest examples of GORE-TEX fabrics garments in the Gore Archives collection.
By Alyce Graham Stiles, Heritage Communications/Archives
The world’s premier collection of GORE-TEX garments lives in a climate-controlled room with an FM-200 fire suppression system at a W. L. Gore & Associates facility in Newark, Delaware. It’s an archives storage space converted from what had been an...
After five years of work, the Technical Subcommittee for Encoded Archival Description is thrilled to announce that EAD3 is ready!
EAD3 1.0 is available to download from GitHub at https://github.com/SAA-SDT/EAD3/releases/tag/v1.0.0. The release package can be downloaded as a .zip or .tar.gz, and contains the full set of EAD3 schemas: Relax NG, W3C, and DTD (in regular and undeprecated varieties); the ancillary Schematron schema for validating external code lists, standard data patterns, element...
Thank you to all of our excellent candidates for standing in the 2023 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
[2] 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...
Thank you to all of our excellent candidates for standing in the 2025 STHC Section election. Please review the candidate statements and get to know them so you can make an informed choice.
You will be voting for:
One Junior Co-Chair (two-year term)
One Member-At-Large Steering Committee Member (three-year term)
Ballots will be managed by SAA staff, so please keep an eye on your inbox for when the ballot opens!
Junior Co-Chair Candidate
J.E. Molly Seegers
Director, The Arthur H. Aufses,...
Since 2018, the Archival History Section has given out each year its Archival History Article Award. 'This prize encourages and rewards an article, book chapter, or other short piece of superior excellence in the field of archival history, irrespective of subject, time period, or national focus' (https://www2.archivists.org/groups/archival-history-section/ahs-archival-history-article-award). Since 2020 the award has been split to honor contributions from SAA members as well as from non-...
The SAA-ACRL/RBMS Joint Task Force seeks member comment on the revised Guidelines on Access to Research Materials in Archives and Special Collections Libraries. These guidelines outline the responsibilities for researcher access, as well as legal and institutional obligations, for a repository in preserving collections for use.
The SAA-ACRL/RBMS Joint Task force to Revise the Statement on Access to Research Materials was convened in 2017 to review, update, and expand the Statement on Access to...
The Annual Meeting Task Force has been busy organizing, finding good sources for information, and conducting research, so it’s high time we reported to you, the members of SAA and started this conversation about where we go from here! If you’re wondering what our charge is, please see the our page on the main SAA website (http://saa.archivists.org/4DCGI/committees/SAATF-AM.html?Action=Show_Comm_Detail&CommCode=SAA**TF-AM&Time=-1866235686). It’s a big one… But, in a nutshell, we have...
The next edition of the Business Archives Section Quarterly (BASQ) is in the works!
This time we are dealing with the ways in which corporate archives are managing during the COVID-19 pandemic. This is an unusual time for us all, and we are interested in hearing how business archivists are supporting their companies. We've had some great conversations on the message board about this topic and want to take it to the newsletter.
You can check out the threads “Your Responses to COVID-19” (March 19...
By Marie Force, Archives Director, Delta Flight Museum
As Delta flies into its 90th anniversary of passenger service in 2019, the historical collections of the company continue to grow more accessible and active than ever. Since the 1950s, Delta has maintained archives that document and share its legacy of customer service—the “Delta difference”—in the words of its founder, C.E. Woolman. The collections also let visitors explore the history of aviation through the 40+ airlines affiliated with...
Please register for the 2025 Annual Business Meeting of the Performing Arts Section, which will take place on Wednesday, July 30th from 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM EDT. Registration is available here:
We will recap our section's work over this year, discuss plans for the newsletter, announce the election results, and hear updates from our Council liaison, Alison Clemens. Following these announcements, we will have a roundtable discussion on the subject of caring for, and providing access to, costumes...
Please mark your calendars! Our 2022 Annual Meeting, organized jointly with the Web Archiving Section, will take place online on August 11, 2:00 pm ET/1:00 pm CT/11:00 PT. Registration is now open. There is a lineup of three presentations that connect the sections’ activities:
1) Contemporary Composers Web Archive: Kathleen DeLaurenti, Director, Peabody Institute Arthur Friedheim Library; Miranda Siler, Web Collection Librarian, Ivy Plus Libraries Confederation
2) 10 Hairy Legs Dance Company...
I am happy to announce the beta release of the EAD 2002 to EAD3 migration style sheet.
The beta release is available on GitHub at https://github.com/SAA-SDT/EAD2002toEAD3/releases/tag/v1.0.0-beta.
Style sheet documentation is available in the README file, which is included in the release pckage and is accessible at https://github.com/SAA-SDT/EAD2002toEAD3/blob/master/README.md.
The style sheet has been tested extensively against a wide variety of instances of EAD 2002. It is, however, a beta...
