On December 5, 2024, the Oral History Section Steering Committee hosted "Taking a Step Back: Guidance for Determining Oral History Project Goals and How to Reach Them" with presenters Natalie Milbrodt and Kristin Morris.
Thank you to all who could join. A pdf of the presentation slides is available.
HOW TO SUGGEST THAT SAA TAKE ACTION ON AN ISSUE
If you encounter an issue on which you think SAA should comment (or advocate for in another way), here’s how to bring that issue forward.
Review the SAA Public Policy Agenda to determine if your issue is included among the priorities outlined there. Use this review to note the types of issues that SAA addresses and also to ensure that your issue is not already being addressed.
Also review the Criteria for Advocacy Statements, SAA Strategic...
Did you miss the Solo Archivists Section's first "UnBOXED: Small Digitization Projects" event on March 28? If so, the recording is now available here.
Also, remember to register (if you haven't already) for Part 2!
In the Part 1 recording, you will hear from the following panelists:
Katherine Banks, Milligan University (Tennessee)
For almost ten years, the archivist and archives student workers at Milligan University's archives have been digitizing institutional photos for their digital...
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...
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...
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...
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
Nominee for Education Coordinator (2-year term)
Leah Constantine, Archives Senior Manager, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
Leah Constantine is the Archives Senior Manager at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, where she explores and preserves the vast history of culture and performance in New York City and nationwide. Traditionally a museums specialist, Leah has enjoyed gathering research and skills from past experiences at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The New Museum, and Pratt...
Visual Materials Section event this THURSDAY, November 2 @ 3:30pm ET / 12:30pm PT
Annual Meeting Proposal Brainstorming
Do you have a project or an idea related to visual materials you'd like to share but need a little encouragement? Do you have a question about working with visual materials that you'd like to know the answer to?
Come join the Visual Materials section for an informal brainstorming session to make connections and workshop ideas for annual meeting session proposals. Let's get...
Member-At-Large
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 position for the Daughters of Charity, Provinceof St. Louise, Emmitsburg, MD. Dee’s transition to religious archives came after 10 years asHead of Acquisitions and Processing at the Music Division of the Library of Congress. Dee has been a member of ARCS, having...
The SAA Performing Arts Section is happy to announce our first "meet and greet" virtual meeting of this new membership year. The meeting features special guest, Robinson McClellan, Associate Curator of Music Manuscripts and Printed Music at the Morgan Library & Museum. He will be discussing the exhibition, "Crafting the Ballet Russes: The Robert Owen Lehman Collection," which is on display through September 22, 2024.
The meeting will take place:September 10, 2024 at 4:00PM EDT
Please...
The SAA Committee on Ethics and Professional Conduct virtual Annual Meeting featured guest speakers from the Term Labor Best Practices Working Group. Alison Clemens, Kit Messick, and Laura Starratt discussed the development and recommendations of their Best Practices for Archival Term Positions white paper. The Best Practices for Archival Term Positions engages deeply with the ethical tradeoffs inherent in staffing archives through term positions, and provides actionable recommendations for...
Dear IAAS members:
We are pleased to announce the International Archival Affairs Section Steering Committee leadership for 2024-2025. Congratulations to our incoming committee members: Jennifer Dantchev (Junior Co-Chair) and Rachel Poppen (the new Steering Committee Member at-Large). Karen Trivette has officially rotated into the Senior Co-Chair role!
Current 2024-2025 Steering Committee roster:
* Karen Trivette, Senior Co-Chair (Alma Mater Europaea University-European Center Maribor, Slovenia...
The 2024 Summer Newsletter includes:
A letter from the outgoing MAS Chair, Tara Laver
A letter from the incoming MAS Chair, Laura Uglean Jackson
News from the MAS section about the recent business meeting
Introducing the National Postal Museum Archives by Mitch Toda
From bad OCR to transcription to AI: Good communication with IT was the final solution by Molly Stothert-Maurer
Expediting Discovery and Access in Archives at the National Gallery of Art by Nina Aguiar Shempliner
We are pleased to announce the new members of our Steering Committee:Natalie Worsham, ChairElizabeth Jones-Minsinger, Vice Chair/Chair ElectKristin Nyitray, Member-at-LargeSebastian Modrow, Member-at-LargeMelissa Smith, Member-at-LargeElizabeth “Liza” Whitfield, Student/Early Career Member
Congratulations to the following winners of our most recent election!
Vice Chair/Chair-Elect: Amanda McGrory.
Student/Early-Career: Elizabeth Pineo.
Members: Anne Marie Hamilton-Brehm, Talea Anderson, and Ruohua Han.
Speaking of Amanda, you will be able hear her as an analyst on some broadcasts during the upcoming Paralympics!
A huge thank you to all those who ran and voted in the 2024 MDOS elections this year! Please join us in welcoming the incoming steering committee members.
Incoming Co-Chair (2024-2027): Laura Drake Davis, Digital Project Specialist, Library of Congress
Steering Committee Member (2024-2027): Nashieli Marcano, Archivist for Digital Collections, Furman University
Communication Liaison (2024-2026): Tomeka Jackson, Library Resident, Clemson University
We are so excited to have them on board....
