Alongside the public call for comments on the new version of the Encoded Archival Description standard, EAD 4.0, the Technical Subcommittee for Encoded Archival Standards (TS-EAS) of the Society of American Archivists (SAA) invites you to three informal drop-in sessions to discuss the main features of the new version. Following a brief presentation on a selected topic, each of these drop-in sessions will open the floor for your questions, comments, and suggestions.
Similar to previous TS-EAS...
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...
One Steering Committee Member-at-Large (3-year term):
Jenifer Monger, MSIS
Title: Institute Archivist, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Candidate Statement:
I have been a member of the Society of American Archivists since 2012, enjoying the wonderful professional benefits of so much that SAA offers the archives profession. Throughout the years I’ve been affiliated with numerous sections, but most currently I am the Chair of the Membership Committee and liaison to the Diversity Committee. My...
A new issue of SOLO, the newsletter of the Solo Archivists Section, is now available.
If you are interested in submitting to SOLO, you can send submissions for highlights through this Google Form. Highlights are a quick and easy way to share with fellow archivists what you have been up to - current projects, successes, or other accomplishments. You can also send any ideas or articles to soloarchivists.saa@gmail.com
The Performing Arts Section invites you to our next Meet & Greet meeting, which will take place on on January 9, 2025 @ 3:00pm EST / 12:00pm PST.
Our special guest will be dance and costume historian, Dr. Caroline Hamilton, curator of the current exhibition at the McNay Art Museum, Women Artists of the Ballets Russes: Designing the Legacy. This will be a wonderful opportunity to hear about the Ballet Russes holdings that are part of the museum's Tobin Theatre Collection, as well as a last...
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...
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...
Hi all,
I am excited to share our election results-- Denise Gallo will be serving as Member-At-Large and Gailyn Bopp as Co-Chair/Chair Elect. Their bios are listed below to learn more about them.
Thank you again to all the candidates on the ballot this year and section voters!
Denise Gallo Provincial Archivist of the Religious of Jesus and Mary
Denise Gallo has served as Provincial Archivist for the Religious of Jesus and Mary in Warwick,R.I. since 2018. Prior to that, she held the same...
Join the Science, Technology and Healthcare Section for our annual section meeting on Friday, July 30 at 1:00pm-2:30pm CST! Please register [zoom.us] to receive the Zoom information.
Following an update from SAA Council Liaison Petrina Jackson and the STHC business meeting, Steering Committee Members Nora Zaldivar and Peter Collopy will present and lead a discussion on ways STHC archives can develop collections, policies, and practices that reflect and accommodate the diversity of our...
Hi everyone,
I am excited to announce our newly elected steering committee members- Denise Gallo and Gailyn Bopp. Denise Gallo will serve as Member-At-Large and Gailyn Bopp as Co-Chair/Chair-Elect. Listed below are their bios as refresher.
I want to thank all the candidates again for stepping up to support the section as well as all the section members who participated in our elections.
Denise Gallo Provincial Archivist of the Religious of Jesus and Mary
Denise Gallo has served as Provincial...
The Performing Arts Section invites you to our next Meet & Greet meeting, which will take place on Wednesday, December 4th at 1:00pm EST / 10:00am PST.
Our featured guest will be Philip Milnes-Smith, Digital Archivist for Shakespeare's Globe. He will be giving us a presentation on a current UK National Archives’ Research and Innovation grant-funded project at Shakespeare’s Globe to create inclusive thematic finding aids for the collections utilizing community input from an intersectional...
Thank you to all who participated in the 2024-2025 Public Library Archives and Special Collections (PLASC) Steering Committee election! We are pleased to announce committee members:
Co-Chair (Returning): Charmaine Bonner
Librarian, Marin City Library/School Library Services
Co-Chair: Erinn Barnes
Digital and Photo Archivist, Pikes Peak Library District
Secretary: Jill Tominosky
Archivist, Access Services, New York State Archives
Webmaster: Aimai Reporter
Metadata Librarian - Digital Archives,...
The Performing Arts Section is pleased to announce that our next Meet & Greet is scheduled for Tuesday, November 19, 2024 at 4:00pm EST / 1:00pm PST. Joining us will be Greg Prickman, Interim Director of the Folger Shakespeare Library and Eric Weinmann Librarian & Director of Collections. Greg will be on hand to discuss new opportunities in exhibitions and programming that the Folger's recently completed four-year renovation project has made possible.
Please register to receive the...
Calling all witches, goblins, and ghouls! Science, Technology, and Healthcare Section wish all of you a Happy Halloween. Creep on some spookifying repositories in this latest blog post.
The Science, Technology, and Health Care (STHC) section will be hosting a 1-hour virtual open discussion session on the topic of challenges and solutions to generating student interest in STHC collections on Tuesday, November 12 at 11am (CST).
This discussion will be moderated by Allison Fischbach (Chesney Medical Archives, Johns Hopkins) and Stephen Logsdon (Becker Medical Archives, Washington University in St. Louis). All are welcome to attend the discussion, and attendees are encouraged to...
Dear Colleagues,
This is a friendly reminder that you are invited to the Society of American Archivists Archival Educators Section Virtual Meeting tomorrow! We will discuss how the AES can better support archival educators, creating alternatives to unpaid internships, and resources and training for archival adjunct instructors.
Join us on Zoom!
bit.ly/SAAEducators
Meeting ID: 895 1614 5372
Passcode: 402551
Wednesday, November 6th at 1pm Eastern/ 12pm Central/ 11am Mountain/ 10am...
This will be my last newsletter as Web Liasion/Newsletter Editor. I am happy to answer questions about the position and give lots of info to whomever is chosen to replace me. I can be contacted via hilary.h.barlow@gmail.com
I am very grateful to current and previous chairs and steering committee members for making this an excellent section to be a part of! As I've mentioned before, I am stepping down for no other reason than it feels like time (I've been doing this for more than 4 years) and I...
Thank you to all who were able to join us for the community chat with David Amel Olson on the history of Oral History Release Forms! There was quite a turn out!
The presentation slides are available in pdf format.
Thank you all for your interest in our community programs.
The Election results for the Solo Archivists Section are in. Thank you to those who volunteered for positions and voted. The results are:
Vice Chair/Chair-Elect: Kim Bradshaw
Co-Regional Representative: Laura K.N. Jones
Events Coordinator: Alison Quirion
Congratulations to Kim, Laura, and Alison on their new positions!
Hilary Swett, Chair
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...
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...
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....
Thank you to all of our excellent candidates for standing in the 2021 Human Rights 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 two Steering Committee members (three-year terms).
Ballots will be managed by SAA staff through Survey Monkey; keep an eye on your inbox for when the ballot opens!
The following candidates are running for the section steering committee:
Katherine...
Many archivists are reevaluating workflows and practices in order to create more equitable, anti-oppressive, and anti-racist metadata in their repositories. This important work is foregrounded by the Anti-Racist Description Resources, authored by the Archives for Black Lives in Philadelphia’s (A4BLiP) Anti-Racist Description Working Group.
Archives in Context spoke with A4BLiP’s Anti-Racist Description Working Group members Alexis A. Antracoli, Annalise Berdini, Faith Charlton, Valencia...
Ensuring that all histories – especially the most marginalized – are preserved and shared is a priority for Sites of Conscience around the globe. To support this, in partnership with our Asian and Pacific Sites of Conscience Network, we are pleased to launch “Shared Journeys,” a virtual exhibit that showcases the hidden, lost, or sidelined histories of the Asian region. The project is a collaboration between 12 Sites of Conscience in the region and is curated by Radhika Hettiarachchi.Read more ...
