The Crisis, Disaster, and Tragedy Response Working Group (CDTRWG) will hold an open business meeting on Friday, July 15, 2022 from 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM (CT) leading up to ARCHIVES*RECORDS 2022.
We'll begin with a brief introduction of the charge of the Crisis, Disaster, and Tragedy Response Working group and then update participants on the working group activities for the past year, and make any relevant working group announcements.
We are delighted to be hosting guest speaker John Chambers...
Librarians and Archivists with Palestine invites you to join our international reading campaign, One Book, Many Communities, to be held in May and June 2020. Our One Book title for 2020 is The Book of Disappearance by Ibtisam Azem.
Set in modern-day Jaffa and the greater Tel Aviv area, the story follows Alaa, a Palestinian citizen of Israel, and his friend Ariel, a Jewish Israeli. After Alaa disappears, Ariel finds Alaa’s journals. Alaa’s memory of his late grandmother, a survivor of the Nakba...
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, & 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...
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...
Registration is now open for the joint annual meeting of the Society of American Archivists Encoded Archival Standards (EAS) Section and the Technical Subcommittee on Encoded Archival Standards (TS-EAS). The meeting will be held via Zoom on Wednesday, August 3, 2022 from 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM (CT).
Please see the event listing on SAA’s website or use this direct link to register for the joint EAS Section / TS-EAS meeting. There are no costs to attend the session and it is open to all; SAA...
Thanks to everyone who attended the joint annual meeting of the Encoded Archival Standards (EAS) Section and the Technical Subcommittee on Encoded Archival Standards (TS-EAS) on June 20, 2023. A recording of the meeting is available at the Society of American Archivists' events site:
https://www.pathlms.com/saa/events/4935/event_sections/13594/video_presentations/265843
This year, our annual meeting included updates from TS-EAS and EAS Section leaders, and the Building a National Finding Aid...
The Technical Subcommittee on Describing Archives: A Content Standard (TS-DACS) recently requested feedback on its proposal to adopt two new single-level minimum required descriptive elements:
· 8.2. Rights Statement for Archival Description
· 13.10. Rights Statement for Archival Authority Records
As noted in the request, these elements were proposed by Alston Coburn (East Carolina University) and Patrick Galligan (Rockefeller Archive Center). They would require archival...
“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...
Thank you to all of our excellent candidates for standing in the 2025 College and University Archives 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 two-year term; and
• Two Steering Committee members (three-year terms).
Vice Chair/Chair Elect
Emily Shelton
Clemson University
Biographical Statement:
Emily Shelton is the...
The new issue of information, observations, and things to ponder can be found in pdf form here
Secure Your Stuff
Section Research Volunteer, Jeff Lundgren, asks if you have done a “systems review” in starting the new year off right. He explains some reasons why this part of every-day security awareness is so important. This is followed by a few more tips on securing your stuff, continued from the November 2020 text in our First Encounter
Quiz
What do you know about...
By Kerri Anne Burke, Global Curator, Citi Heritage Collection
Bob Clark of the Rockefeller Archives Center, L.J. Strumpf of the IBM Archives and I spoke at the Spring 2018 joint meeting of the New England Archivists and Archivists Round Table of Metropolitan New York. The panel was organized and moderated by Jamie Martin of the IBM Archives. The panelists spoke on the value of business records and how business archivists must advocate the worth of business records to internal audiences,...
We can all say by now that business archivists wear many hats. When we’re not working on traditional archival tasks, we’re serving as a researcher, historian, copywriter, IT professional… and often, an exhibits specialist. Developing exhibitions with our collections is a fantastic way to connect to employees and the public. And these displays come in many, many forms.
Have you put your company’s collections on display somewhere? Examples could include exhibits at:
A corporate headquarters or...
Thank you to all of our excellent candidates for standing in the 2024-2025 SAA SNAP 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
3 Steering Committee members (three-year terms).
Secretary
Vice Chair/Chair-Elect Candidates
The following candidates are running for the Vice Chair/Chair-Elect (or Co-chair) position:
Kay...
We're extremely excited to launch the new SAA Early Career Member program this year in the BAS. We received applications from three great candidates... so we decided to keep them all! The Early Career Member position is intended for individuals starting out in the field to have an opportunity to be mentored by section leaders and expand their leadership skills and resources.
Please take a few minutes to learn about these great new additions to the BAS Steering Committee!
Heidi Charles
Heidi...
Candidate for Vice Chair/Chair-Elect (one 3-year term):
Paige Adair
Biography
Paige Adair is the Senior Archivist, Fine Arts Specialist at The Portman Archives in Atlanta, GA, collaborating to provide access to the archival collections of architect and artist, John C. Portman, Jr. She is responsible for visual materials-based collections of photography and artwork, maintaining both digital records and physical works of art. Paige has been an active member of Society of American Archivists,...
The archive of lesbian musician Gretchen Phillips, co-founder of the trailblazing band Two Nice Girls, sheds light on what it was like to be gay in the 1980s – before the internet helped create communities and at a time when gay lives were rarely visible.Now part of Cornell University Library’s Human Sexuality Collection, the video recordings of Phillips’ shows, reviews and news articles, fan mail and more that Phillips collected over three decades will be available to researchers interested in...
Vacant Position
Chair-Elect: Three-year term - first year Chair-elect, second year as Chair, and third year as immediate past Chair
The main responsibilities of the vacant position are providing leadership & direction for the Security Section. This includes, but is not limited to, planning the annual meeting, holding additional meetings as needed to evaluate activities/direction of section, sending relevant announcements to the section via the listserv, and updating the section's blog and...
You will be voting for:
One Vice Chair/Chair-elect, for a two-year term
Two Steering Committee members, each for a three-year term
Ballots will be managed by SAA staff through Survey Monkey; please keep an eye on your inbox for when the ballot opens!
Vice Chair/Chair-Elect (select one)
Name: Deborah Smith
Professional title, institution, or affiliation: Executive Director, Jones Memorial Library
Biographical Information:
Deborah Smith is Executive Director of the Jones Memorial Library in...
"Preserving Voices: A Community Conversation on the Oral History Transcript Lifecycle from Creation to Preservation"
With Speakers:
Yolanda Hester is an independent public historian. She is Project Director of the Arthur Ashe Oral History Project at Arthur Ashe Legacy of UCLA. Yolanda is invested in fostering collaborative relationships with narrators at all points of the project.
Kopana Terry is the Oral History Archivist at the Nunn Center, University of Kentucky. She manages access and...
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 election is now open! You can view the candidate statements here.
Important Dates:The elections will open on Monday, June 23 and remain open through Monday, July 15.
When you're ready to vote, please use this link and click on the Native American Archives Section ballot.
Please note that you must be a current member of the Society of American Archivists (SAA) to participate in the election.
Thank you for supporting NAAS leadership. Your voice matters!
Thank you to all of our excellent candidates for standing in the 2025 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
Fatemeh Rezaei
Job Title and Institution: Archivist, University of Baltimore Special Collections and Archives
Bio and Candidate Statement:
I am currently serving as an archivist at the University of Baltimore’s Special Collections and Archives...
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...
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...
