The Technical Subcommittee for Encoded Archival Standards (TS-EAS) at the Society of American Archivists (SAA) invites you to engage with a draft of the new version of the Encoded Archival Description standard, EAD 4.0, between December 2023 and February 2024, ahead of the public call for comments. For this activity, we are specifically looking towards archival aggregators as well as software providers and developers.
Having started the major revision process with various engagement...
The Reference, Access, & Outreach section of the Society of American Archivists seeks nominees for election to the following roles:
Steering Committee Member-at-Large (2)
2 year commitment
Vice-chair/Chair-elect
3 year commitment
All roles begin at the conclusion of the 2023 Annual Meeting. Nominations can be made via our 2023 Nominations Form by the end of the business day on June 16, 2023. For more information and details on roles and responsibilities you can review the...
The Reference, Access, & Outreach section of the Society of American Archivists seeks additional nominees for election to the following roles:
Chair, incoming replacement for Vice-Chair resignation
2 year commitment, chair role to start by Jan 2024
Steering Committee Member-at-Large
2 year commitment
Vice-chair/Chair-elect
3 year commitment, chair role to start August 2024
All roles begin September 2023 or at the conclusion of the election. Nominations can be made directly via...
The Encoded Archival Standards (EAS) Section is seeking candidates for three positions:
One co-chair for a two-year term (2023-2025) -- first year as junior co-chair and second year as senior co-chair
Two Steering Committee members for a two-year term (2023-2025)
We welcome early career candidates, as well as more seasoned archivists, including those who have held EAS Section leadership positions in the past. The time commitment for Steering Committee members is roughly 2-5 hours per month,...
Enhance your knowledge of the final major battle of the War of 1812 by joining SAA’s Military Archives Roundtable (MART) on a “staff ride” to study the New Orleans Campaign (December 1814 – January 1815). Examine the Battle of New Orleans using archival sources such as letters, diaries, and maps that tell the story from individual participants’ points of view. Hear from soldiers, sailors, Marines, British military, and pirates! The New Orleans Campaign Staff Ride is a free bus tour open to all...
Audio, Film and Video Preservation and Access at the Oklahoma Historical Society JA Pryse, Director of Digital Archives, and Rachel Mosman, Head Photo Archivist and Media Specialist, Oklahoma Historical Society The Oklahoma Historical Society (OHS) Research Division is comprised of numerous departments, each responsible for unique formats of archival materials. It is the main goal of the Digital Archives Division to identify and prioritize the methodical reformatting of all...
Please join the Archival History Section on Thursday, May 21st at 2PM Eastern / 1PM Central / 12PM Mountain / 11AM Pacific for our annual meeting!
This meeting will cover:
A summary of this past year's section business, including recaps of our winter and spring lectures and the launch of the Archival History Section writing group;
An update from our SAA section liaison;
The announcement of the Archival History Article Award winner;
An update on the 2026 elections and greetings...
Thank you to all of our excellent candidates for participating in the 2026 Native American Archives Section election.
You will be voting for:
One Vice Chair/Chair-Elect, for a two-year term
Three Steering Committee members, for a two-year term
One Secretary, for a two-year term.
Ballots will be managed by SAA staff. Please keep an eye on your inbox for when the ballots open!
Vice Chair/Chair-Elect Candidates
The following candidate is unning for the Vice Chair/ Chair-Elect position...
“The pandemic has been a horror,” says Rachel Mattson, Curator of the Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies. One of the projects that has kept the Tretter staff connected, supported, engaged — and able to support a wide range of research inquiries — throughout the pandemic is a project organized around a Twin Cities public access television show, GAZE-TV.GAZE-TV ran from 1986 until Pride season 1992, and then as Green And Yellow (GAY) TV until Pride...
The Technical Subcommittee for Encoded Archival Description (TS-EAD) and the Schema Development Team welcome comments on the beta release of the revised EAD schema.
The beta release is a completely re-written Relax NG schema. A W3C schema version is also available for testing. This version addresses most of the feedback received during the alpha comment period. A few unresolved issues remain, all of which can be reviewed on the project's GitHub repository issue tracker.
The schema versions...
In April 2019, the Joint Working Group on Issues and Awareness offered the webinar "Archival Advocacy at Home Preparing and Messaging for Visiting District Congressional Offices."
To view this webinar, please click the following link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-qUNEi-K3Vm8SIqAY0XUM3MJ-BRMnkHU/view?usp=sharing
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...
VICE CHAIR/CHAIR-ELECT (Select 1)
Danielle SangalangArchivist and Records Manager, Massachusetts College of Art and Design
Biography:
Danielle Sangalang is the Archivist and Records Manager at Massachusetts College of Art and Design. She holds a Master’s degree in Library and Information Science and History from Simmons University. Danielle is an active member of the Digital Commonwealth Board of Directors and Past President (July 2019-June 2020). In 2020, she had the opportunity to help guide...
We hope to see you at the 2023 Annual Meeting of the College & University Archives Section! You must be registered to attend. Please follow this link to get registered. We hope to see you there!
Last updated in 1999, the updated Guidelines for College and University Archives is ready! Approved by the SAA Council on July 26, 2023, these new Guidelines represent years of work by dedicated C&UA Section members and invaluable input from Section membership. The Guidelines are available on the righthand menu in the Section microsite sidebar and will be available soon in the SAA Standards Portal.
This work could not have come to fruition without the efforts of Michelle Sweetser, Sandra...
2023 Election: Candidate Statements
Thank you to all of the candidates for the 2023 Description Section election. Please read below for candidate biographies and statements of interest.
You will be voting for:
Vice Chair/Chair-Elect
One (1) Steering Committee Member-at-Large
Ballots will be managed by SAA staff; keep an eye on your inbox for when the ballot opens!
Vice Chair / Chair-Elect
Betts Coup
Bio:
Betts Coup is the Interim Head, Manuscript Section at Houghton Library at Harvard...
The Webinar was hosted by Rachael Woody of Rachael Cristine Consulting LLC. Rachael discussed how she set up her business, reviewed business and financial logistics, revealed how to select an appropriate consulting rate, and offered her tips and tricks for successfully entering the consulting world.
Rachael presented for about 45 minutes and then answer questions from the audience. If you have a question you’d like to ask Rachael, connect directly at 503-922-3402, consulting@rachaelcristine.com...
By Hathaway Hester, Archivist & Digital Preservation Librarian, National Association of REALTORS®
Headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, the National Association of REALTORS® (NAR) is the largest trade organization in the United States, with over 1.3 million members. The association’s mission is to “help its members become more profitable and successful” through professional development, research and education, public awareness campaigns, and political advocacy.
NAR Logo, 1923-1973.
Prior...
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...
Thank you to all of our excellent candidates for standing in the 2026 Collection Management 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
One Steering Committee member
One Web Liaison
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 Candidate
The following candidate is...
Open Positions
Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect, vote for one
Steering Committee member, vote for two
Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect Nominees (1 candidate)
Alphabetical Order
Becky Briggs Becker
University Archivist, University of Missouri-Kansas City
Bio
Becky Briggs Becker (she/her) is the University Archivist at the University of Missouri-Kansas City (UMKC). She joined the UMKC University Libraries in February 2022 as the first full-time faculty archivist solely devoted to the UMKC University...
The Technical Subcommittee on Encoded Archival Standards (TS-EAS) is pleased to announce the publication of the first post in a collaborative series on the current EAD revision process.
In "Shape the Future of EAD: A Call to Action – Part I," published in the Description Section's online newsletter, we provide updates about the ongoing revision of Encoded Archival Description (EAD) and examine why the EAD standard needs revision and provide an insight into the revision process.
The second...
Are you passionate about preservation and excited to share skills and knowledge with your colleagues? Would you like to get more involved with SAA and expand your leadership experience? Maybe it's time to help lead the Preservation Section!
We are seeking candidates for two positions:
Vice-Chair/Chair Elect
Member-At-Large
If you are interested in nominating yourself, or would like to nominate someone else, please send the name and a 4 or 5 sentence statement of interest/professional bio...
Dear EAD and EAC-CPF users,
On behalf of SAA’s Technical Subcommittee for Encoded Archival Standards (TS-EAS) we are pleased to announce the minor releases of the EAC-CPF 2.0.1 and the EAD3 1.1.2 Tag Libraries as well as an update to the Schematron files that are available for extended validation of EAC-CPF 2.0 and EAD3 XML files.
What’s new in the EAC-CPF 2.0.1 Tag Library?
This minor revision to the Tag Library covers a typographical error in @targetType (see issue #111) and adaptation of...
The SAA Committee on Ethics and Professional Conduct (CEPC) seeks case studies engaging with the principles set forth in the current SAA Core Values and Code of Ethics, which was recently revised by the CEPC and approved by the SAA Council in August 2020. The goal is to develop a series of writings that address archival ethics in actionable, approachable language so that the resulting case studies can be used both as pedagogical tools and as practical resources in the workplace.
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