When officials in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, refused to make black history part of the mandatory school curriculum, Sadie Roberts-Joseph created a museum dedicated to African-American heritage, friends say.
Today, the Baton Rouge African-American Museum occupies a four-room building under Interstate 10. It was first named for educator Odell S. Williams, whose paintings of black inventors adorn the museum's walls. A bus outside tells the story of the Baton Rouge bus boycott during the Civil Rights...
Substantial concern is being raised about recent action by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE) regarding the presentation of two sets of records on their website.
A collection of speeches and testimonies made by agency leaders was removed in 2017; the record of detainee deaths while in ICE custody remains on the website but is no longer updated. Both types of record are considered permanent by the National Archives and Records Administration and are part of records...
Time to Act: Rohingya Voices features images by internationally renowned photojournalist Kevin Frayer that compassionately portray the desperate and ongoing plight of a people struggling to survive violent persecution and dehumanization. Huge, projected black-and-white photographs are layered in the Museum’s Level 6 Expressions gallery, interspersed with animated design elements that suggest the displacement, movement and continual relocation of a stateless people.
“I had gone with the hope of...
Set to open on the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots, the exhibition examines the role of nightlife venues, parties, and other late-night establishments across the United States in serving as catalysts for LGBTQ protest and activism, while simultaneously facilitating the demand and need for liberated space.
Organized thematically into four sections--Police Raids and Resistance, Contemporary Activism, Los Angeles Nightlife, and Contemporary Art Meditations--the exhibition seeks to...
The National Security Archive joins our international and Guatemalan colleagues in calling for the protection of the Historical Archive of the National Police (AHPN) of Guatemala, which faces new threats to its independence and to public access to its holdings.
In a press conference on Monday, May 27, Interior Minister Enrique Degenhart signaled his intent to assert his agency’s control of the AHPN including the prospect of new restrictions on access to the archived police records and possible...
In a statement handed out during the protest, the organizers explain that "The Central Intelligence Agency stands in direct opposition to our core values.... That is why today, we join those librarians who came before us as we stand up to oppose CIA recruitment at the ALA Annual Conference....The CIA has participated for decades in the violent overthrow of governments while propping up dictators all over the world."
Read more here. Common Dreams also published an article about this protest.
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum unequivocally rejects efforts to create analogies between the Holocaust and other events, whether historical or contemporary. That position has repeatedly and unambiguously been made clear in the Museum’s official statement on the matter – a statement that is reiterated and reaffirmed now.
Read the rest of the statement here. Note: members of the American Jewish community and some Holocaust historians have expressed differing opinions from the...
The Public Libraries Archives Special Collections Section steering committee is pleased to share the slides of the lightning talks featured during our section meeting which took place August 3 during the SAA Annual Meeting. Our speakers highlighted fantastic community-focused projects by and with public library archives and special collections.
Google Slides: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1iA2E3N3Kyq8dB98pJKbu9SZvUim4SlnV
Full presenter list and titles:
Lisa Warwick, DC Public Library...
The Metadata and Digital Object Section (MDOS) is holding a special election to fill the following vacancies on the Steering Committee:
Steering Committee Co-Chair, Two-year commitment. Serves the first year as Junior Co-Chair and the following year as Senior Co-Chair with the option for a third year of service as a Member of the Steering Committee. The MDOS Steering Committee Co-Chair assists in the operation of the Section, serves as acting chair in the absence of a Co-Chair, and...
2019-2020 AHS Elections
Vice-Chair/Chair-elect candidates
Sebastian Modrow
Curator of Rare Books and Manuscripts
Special Collections Research Center
Syracuse University Libraries
In my day-to-day life I am the Curator of Rare Books and Manuscripts at Syracuse University Libraries’ Special Collections Research Center (Syracuse, NY). I hold a German Master’s equivalent (Exam of the State) in Latin and History (University of Greifswald, Germany), a Doctor of Philosophy in Ancient History (...
A former project (circa 2019) Zotero bibliography can be found here.
If you have questions about the bibliography, please contact Katharina Hering or one of the IAAS steering committee members.
Dear IAAS members:
It is my great pleasure to officially announce the 2019-2020 International Archival Affairs Section Steering Committee. Many congratulations to Margarita Vargas-Betancourt (the incoming Junior co-Chair) and to Brad Bauer (the new steering committee member at-large). Tewodros (Teddy) Abebe has rotated in as our new Senior co-Chair.
Here is the updated steering committee roster:
* Tewodros Abebe, Senior Co-Chair (Senior Archivist, Howard University)
* Margarita Vargas-...
The Archival History Section is pleased to award the 2019 Article Award to Heather Wolfe and Peter Stallybrass’s “The Material Culture of Record-Keeping in Early Modem England,” which was printed in Archives and Information in the Early Modern World, edited by Kate Peters, Alexandra Walsham, and Liesbeth Corens. Judges praised the piece for filling an important gap in the archival literature both topically and temporally, for its interdisciplinary approach, for its keen reading of material...
Regional Archival Associations Consortium (RAAC)
Annual Meeting Minutes
August 4, 2019
12:00 – 1:15 p.m.
JW Marriott Austin, Room Grand Salon 7 (level 4)
Introductions
Mary Rubin and Philip Skroska introduced themselves as the co-chairs.
Incoming and Outgoing Steering Committee
Phillip Skroska - Advocacy (continuing)
Whitney Miller - Disaster Planning and Recovery (came on in April, replaced Liz Francis)
Michael Law - Education (came on in January, replaced Vin Novaro)
Karen Trivette -...
Electronic Records Steering Committee
The ERS Steering Committee is excited to announce our new officers for the 2019-2023 term! They are:
Vice Chair/Chair ElectAnnalise Berdini, she/her, Digital Archivist (Princeton University)
Steering CommitteeAndrea Belair, Archives and Special Collections Librarian (Union College)Elizabeth Carron, she/her, Archivist for Records Management, Bentley Historical Library (University of Michigan)
Continuing their service on the ERS Steering Committee in the...
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...
We're ramping up for another edition of the Business Archives Section Quarterly (BASQ)!
This time we'll be dealing with the ways in which corporate archives engage with those outside of their businesses. Creating meaningful connections with external audiences is a major way for business archives to increase their profile and continue to prove the importance of their role in the company.
How do you interact with external audiences? We want to hear about it! Some examples could include:
Archives...
Recently, the BAS Steering Committee put out a survey to solicit the section's opinions on a salary requirement for job postings on various SAA outlets. This was a much talked about topic at this year's SAA Annual Meeting in Austin. As the conversation moves forward, we consider it paramount that any potential statement by the BAS accurately reflect the opinions of its members. We would like to share the results of this survey.
Due to the prevalence of this topic at the 2019 Annual Meeting, we...
The Web Archiving Section is excited to announce the new leadership for the 2019-2020 Steering Committee! The leadership roster is as follows:
Chair: Emily WardVice-Chair/Chair-Elect: Tori MachesEducation Coordinator: Julia CorrinCommunications Manager: Nichole GreenhouseSecretary: Kelsey O'ConnellStudent Member: Lydia Andeskie
Congratulations and best of luck to those newly elected!
The Public Library Archives and Special Collections Section is pleased to announce our election results and incoming 2019-2020 leadership team:
Chair - Angela Stanley, Georgia HomePlace
Vice-Chair - Derek Mosley, Auburn Avenue Research Library on African American Culture and History
Secretary - Dylan Gaffney, Forbes Library
At-Large - Johanna Russ, Chicago Public Library
At-Large - Heather Lanctot, Yolo County Archives - Yolo County Library
At-Large - Patricia Delara, Daly City Public...
The 2019 issue of Archival Elements, the official newsletter of the STHC section, is now available here:https://www2.archivists.org/sites/all/files/aelements2019_0.pdfSpecial thanks to all contributors and the newsletter committee!
The Performing Arts Section Meeting Agenda for SAA 2019 is as follows. The meeting is from 11:30 a.m. - 12:45 p.m. and will be held in Grand Salon 2 (level 4).
1. Election Results will be announced. Thank you to everyone who participated and voted.
2. Meeting Program: Gabryel Smith from the New York Philharmonic Archives will offer a presentation on scrapbook digitization and Tom Clareson of the Lyrasis Performing Arts Readiness Project will discuss disaster preparedness.
There will be...
The 2019 Privacy and Confidentiality elections have been concluded and the section leadership is pleased to announce the results:
Lydia Tang will begin her term as Chair at the upcoming Section meeting.
Rachel Gattermeyer was elected Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect.
DiAnna Hemsath was elected to the Steering Committee (2 year seat).
Daniel McCormack was elected to the Steering Committee (1 year seat).
The referendum question to approve changes to the Standing Rules passed 96.55 percent to 3.45 percent...
See the details below and if you are interested in Thursday’s tour of the Wittliff Collections, Friday dinner, Saturday lunch, or Sunday breakfast, please add your name, phone number and email address to the sign-in sheet found here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1WXeW7yxGmbQhc3_hblA8vMdKyUhIVNoQ...
Thursday, August 1
10:45 am -6:30 pm (tour 1:00 pm-4:00 pm) Special Collections Tour
Join us for a tour of the Wittliff Collections whose mission is “to collect, preserve and share the...
