The Solo Archivists Section (SAS) will elect new leadership to fill two positions for the 2025-2026 term - Vice Chair/Chair and Newsletter Editor.
Ballots will be managed by SAA and will be open June 25 - July 16.
Meet the 2025 Candidates:
Vice Chair/Chair Elect
Hilary Swett, Archivist, Writers Guild Foundation
Bio: I am a solo archivist at the Writers Guild Foundation, a non-profit entertainment special collections library and archive in Los Angeles. Like all of us in small shops, I wear many...
This report examines the encryption that protects meetings in the popular Zoom teleconference app. We find that Zoom has “rolled their own” encryption scheme, which has significant weaknesses. In addition, we identify potential areas of concern in Zoom’s infrastructure, including observing the transmission of meeting encryption keys through China.
Read more here.
Ballots are now available for the 2023 RAO Steering Committee election.Candidate bios and election statements can be found on the RAO website: https://www2.archivists.org/groups/reference-access-and-outreach-section/2023-steering-committee-nominees-and-biographical-statementsElection Timeline + LogisticsRAO ballots will remain open until Tuesday, October 24. All ballots will be listed on a common page on MySAA, the SAA user profile space.
How to VoteLogin to your SAA account and visit this...
The Technical Subcommittee for Encoded Archival Standards (TS-EAS) is responsible for the ongoing maintenance of EAD and EAC-CPF as well as the development of future companion standards, such as Encoded Archival Context for Functions. We are seeking self-nominations from the international community to join TS-EAS. Anyone outside of the United States who has experience working with or implementing archival encoding standards is encouraged to apply as an international member.Next year, the...
Colleagues,
Registration is now open for the annual Technical Subcommittee on Encoded Archival Standards (TS-EAS) meeting to be held online on Tuesday, July 22, 2025 11 AM to 12:30 PM CDT (12-1:30 PM EDT). This meeting is open for all interested parties, and will include an update on all TS-EAS activities, including the EAD 4.0 major revision, the alignment of all our standards (EAC-CPF, EAC-F and EAD), and an overview of the TS-EAS annual meeting scheduled for August.
To attend, please...
The Technical Subcommittee on Encoded Archival Standards (TS-EAS) is happy to share the recordings of two webinars held in March 2022 in the context of the ongoing major revision of EAD (Encoded Archival Description). Furthermore, the EAD team of TS-EAS has finalized a minor revision of the EAD3 Tag Library, which the Standards Committee approved before the summer break.
Minor revision of the EAD3 Tag Library
While the major revision is taking up speed, TS-EAS would like to announce the...
A reminder that the Society of American Archivists' (SAA) Technical Subcommittee on Encoded Archival Standards (TS-EAS), in collaboration with the Encoded Archival Standards Section Steering Committee, will be hosting a webinar in November 2022 to introduce the new version of the EAC-CPF standard.
Encoded Archival Context - Corporate bodies, Persons, and Families (EAC-CPF) is an international standard maintained by SAA for encoding contextual information about persons, corporate bodies, and...
The Technical Subcommittee on Encoded Archival Standards (TS-EAS) wishes you all a happy new year and hopes you have had a good start into 2022!
Tapping into the spirit of new starts, we would like to pick up on the call for comments to improve the Encoded Archival Description (EAD) that we initiated at the end of last year. TS-EAS wants to hear from you in more detail what you are missing in the current version of EAD and what you would like to see in a future version of the standard. We...
Regardless of what institution we work for, we all have the shared experience of archives education. Those long days (and nights) of studying archival theory and principles. What most of us found, however, is that when we started our career in business archives, we had to adapt what we’d learned to the needs of our particular organization. The realities of the corporate world, more often than not, require us to take our knowledge of archival best practices and customize solutions that fit our...
By Suzanne E. Shapiro, PVH Historian / Heritage Brands Archivist
Cluett, Peabody and Co. (makers of ARROW brand) factory photo circa 1900. Image courtesy PVH Archives.
Overview
The PVH Archives is a digital and physical resource created to preserve all archival materials pertaining to PVH Corp. and its portfolio of iconic apparel brands including CALVIN KLEIN, TOMMY HILFIGER, and the Heritage Brands—Van Heusen, IZOD, ARROW, Warner’s, and Olga....
The Oral History Section is holding a special election for the two seats on the Steering Committee: vice chair/chair-elect and member at-large. Please see the candidate statements below and be sure to vote by Monday, October 13 on https://mysaa.archivists.org/myballots.
Vice Chair/Chair-Elect Candidates (three-year term)
Patrick Daglaris
Patrick Daglaris is the archivist and assistant department head for the Oklahoma Oral History Research Program at the Oklahoma State University Library, where...
Thank you to all of our excellent candidates for standing in the 2026 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.
Candidates
Vice Chair/Chair Elect
Laura Bell
Job Title and Institution: Associate Archivist for Collections Management, Access, and Discovery, American University Archives & Special Collections
Bio and Candidate Statement:
Laura is the Associate Archivist for...
Thank you to all of our excellent candidates for standing in the 2026 Government Records Section election. Please take some time to review the candidate statements so you can make an informed choice.
You will be voting for:
One Chair for a one-year term
One Vice Chair/Chair-Elect for a two-year term and
Three At-Large members for two-year terms.
Ballots will be managed by SAA staff, and information about voting will be sent out when the ballot opens!
Candidate Statements
Chair Candidates...
Last call for nominations! Please send any nominations by Thursday, May 31st!
Are you seeking an opportunity to expand your network and get further involved in the business archives community? If so, come join the Steering Committee and see what the fun is all about! Joining the Steering Committee is a small-time commitment, providing you with valuable experience as you contribute to vital services for your colleagues.
Please consider nominating yourself or a colleague for one of these...
2023 Call for Applicants - Associate Editor for Case Studies on Teaching with Primary Sources
The Teaching with Primary Sources sub-committee of the Reference, Access and Outreach Section of the Society of American Archivists is accepting applications for the role of Associate Editor for the Case Studies on Teaching With Primary Sources series. For more information about the series, visit: https://www2.archivists.org/publications/epubs/Case-Studies-Teaching-With-Primary-Sources.
The Associate...
The Reference, Access, and Outreach Section (RAO) of the Society of American Archivists (SAA) seeks proposals for the 2024 Marketplace of IDEAs to be held during the Virtual Annual Meeting on Thursday, July 25, 2024 at 4pm EDT/3pm CDT/2pm MDT/1pm PDT.
Topics related to the sub-committee areas of Teaching with Primary Sources, Exhibits and Events, and Public Services Assessment are encouraged.Proposals addressing topics or themes related to the following will also be prioritized:- evolving the...
The Military Archives Section WANTS YOU to join the Steering Committee (apologies to Uncle Sam)! With a minimal monthly time commitment, you can develop your leadership skills and enhance your professional network of fellow archivists. The only requirement is that you are a member of SAA.
Please consider nominating yourself or a colleague for one of these positions:
Vice-Chair/Chair Elect (2 year commitment, as Vice-Chair and Chair): Serves as acting chair in the absence of the chair;...
Vice Chair/Chair-Elect Candidates
Ying-Ying Han
Bio
Yingying recently earned her Ph.D. from the School of Information Sciences, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Starting from August, she will be a faculty member at the School of Information Sciences, University of Tennessee. Her research and teaching interests focus on critical archival studies, digital preservation, and community engagement with marginalized groups.
By integrating critical theories such as feminist ethics of care,...
by Dave J. Moore, Brand Archivist and Historian
Three dollars could buy you a good sized order of overalls at the turn of the 20th century. This check was submitted to Hamilton Carhartt & Co., based in Detroit, from D.L. Powers of Jonesville, Michigan in 1898.
120 years later, Powers Clothing is still going strong… and still selling Carhartt. When you have retail partners that old, you know you must be doing something right. Financial records like this are just one example of the materials...
The Society of American Archivists Museum Archives Section welcomes your comments on a draft of revised Museum Archives Guidelines. These guidelines have been created by the Section to assist all types of museums in the development and administration of archival programs.
You can view the draft Guidelines here and submit feedback by accessing this survey: https://forms.gle/xNp3Ad9QRYwHokX97
Please note that you can sign off on the Guidelines as written using the radio buttons in the first...
A recording of the annual meeting of the Technical Subcommittee on Encoded Archival Description (TS-EAS) is now available to the community on SAA’s YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcl1AzCciZs. The meeting provides an overview of work from the 2023-2024 term, including a review of the Encoded Archival Description (EAD) revision process as well as work on associated standards. Additional updates about these standards revisions are expected in the coming months, and will be...
The Technical Subcommittee on Encoded Archival Standards is pleased to release Encoded Archival Context - Corporate bodies, Persons, Families (EAC-CPF) 2.0, a draft updated version of the standard for public review and comment. To ensure the greatest possible input from EAC-CPF users around the world, the subcommittee is calling for comments on the proposed changes to the current version, EAC-CPF 2010. The deadline for comments on the change proposals is June 30, 2021.
The process for a major...
The Government Records Case Studies are drawn from real life and address challenges faced by archives responsible for government records, including but not limited to: advocacy, (re)appraisal, custody issues, starting a records program, digitization projects, born-digital records, preservation, access, accountability and transparency. The goal is to develop a set of cases from a broad range of repositories, representing all levels of government: local, state, provincial, territorial, tribal,...
Comments Sought
Draft version 2 of “Standardized Statistical Measures and Metrics for Public Services in Archival Repositories and Special Collections Libraries” is now open for comment through Friday, February 17, 2017.
The proposed standard is available here on the SAA website or a PDF of the document can also be downloaded below. Provide your comments on any aspect of the proposed standard by commenting on individual pages of the document as presented here on the SAA website. You do not...
The Local Government Records Roundtable will meet in Cleveland on Friday August 21 at 4:30
The meeting will include a presentation from a government archivist working in the Cleveland area, Judith Cetina:
Judith G. Cetina has a BA (1971), MA (1974) and Ph.D. (1977) in History from Case Western University; and completed fellowships at the Case Western Reserve University Archives and the Western Reserve Historical Society. She has been with the Cuyahoga County Archives since 1977 and has been...
