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...
It has come to our attention SAA changed its operating systems in April. Your settings for receiving emails from the BAS Listserv defaulted to 'Daily Digest'. If you would like to change that to 'Real Time' or 'Weekly Digest' please visit:
https://connect.archivists.org/network/members/profile/myaccount/my-settings?section=subscriptions
The Archival Spirit, July 2019
Contents (see PDF attachment):
Letter from the Chair --- Elizabeth B. Scott, Archivist, Saint Michael's College, Colchester, VT
Boston College Establishes Catholic Religious Archives Repository --- Michael J. Burns, Special Assistant for Jesuit and Catholic Collections, Boston College Archives, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts
Boston College Conference Working Paper Committee Named --- Malachy McCarthy, Claretian Missionaries Archives, Chicago, Illinois...
Thank you to all of our excellent candidates for standing in the 2019 Manuscript Repositories 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
Three (3) 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...
The Performing Arts Section is pleased to offer a special tour of the Harry Ransom Center with Eric Colleary, Cline Curator of Theater and Performing Arts. This tour will take place on Tuesday, August 6, 2019 at 1:00 PM. Our entire visit will last approximately 2 hours, and will include a tour of the gallery spaces, followed by time to look at some highlights of the performing arts collections and have a group discussion in one of the Center's classrooms. Transportation to and from the hotel...
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...
Apologies for cross-posting:
We are in need of a new Digital Archivist here to manage our DSpace repository, as well as support our other technology needs. Here is a piece of the job description:
Reporting to the Director of Archives & Records Management, the Digital Archivist holds primary responsibility for the implementation and maintenance of all in-house programs and databases used by the Arthur H. Aufses, Jr., MD Archives, including the DSpace digital repository and the Inmagic DB...
We are in need of a new Digital Archivist here to manage our DSpace repository, as well as support our other technology needs. Here is a piece of the job description:
Reporting to the Director of Archives & Records Management, the Digital Archivist holds primary responsibility for the implementation and maintenance of all in-house programs and databases used by the Arthur H. Aufses, Jr., MD Archives, including the DSpace digital repository and the Inmagic DB/TextWorks image database. The...
On Saturday, August 3 11:30-12:45, RAO will host its Section Meeting and 7th Annual Marketplace of Ideas at the SAA Annual Meeting in Austin, TX. Please join us for our Business Meeting followed by the Marketplace!
Saturday, August 3rd from 11:30-12:45
Business meeting
Committee Reports
PSAC (Public Services Assessment Committee)
TPS (Teaching With Primary Sources)
E2 (Events and Exhibits)
Accessibility
Chair update
“Interested in contributing to RAO?”
Marketplace “pitches...
Vice-Chair/Chair Elect: Term 2019-2022
Justin Gardner
Special Collections & Cataloging Librarian, Resource Services/Migel Collection
American Printing House, Louisville, KY
I have been the Special Collections Librarian for the M.C. Migel Memorial Collection at the American Printing House for the Blind since November of 2011. The Migel Collection is believed to be the world’s largest collection of non-medical materials related to visual impairment in the world. As the collection’s lone...
The Encoded Archival Standards Section has three upcoming open positions for the 2019 election: Junior Co-Chair and 2 Steering Committee Members. We have received one nomination for Junior Co-Chair and two nominations for the Steering Committee, and their details are below.
Our candidate for Junior Co-Chair is Betts Coup (Processing Archivist, Houghton Library, Harvard University).
Biography:
Betts Coup is a Processing Archivist at Houghton Library and an Adjunct Professor at Simmons...
2019 Privacy and Confidentiality Section Ballot
Positions to be Elected:
1. Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect. (term 8/2019-8/2020)
2. Steering Committee (term 8/2019-8/2021)
3. Steering Committee (term 8/2019-8/2020.) Note: This is a one year interim position that will complete the unexpired term of current Steering Committee member Rachel Gattermeyer).
Candidate for Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect
Rachel Gattermeyer
Current position: Digital Archivist, University of Wyoming’s American Heritage...
We are honored to present the nominees for this year's election cycle. Thank you to the nominees for volunteering their time to serve the Oral History Section. Please review the candidate's statements to get to know them better.
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
Lindsay Hiltunen
University Archivist, Michigan Technological University Archives and Copper Country Historical Collections
Lindsay...
The Women Archivists Section will be experiencing a great deal of turnover this year--we will be voting for four steering committee member positions and one co-chair position. I'm very pleased to introduce you to the 12 awesome archivists who have stepped up to add their experience and energy to our section. Below are their bios and statements of what they bring to our section.
I'd like to take this opportunity to thank Jessica Dowd Crouch (an AMAZING co-chair!) for her service this year as...
The Business Archives Section is opening a position for an Early Career Member on the section steering committee. This 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. Immediate responsibilities will include supporting the Newsletter, the Quarterly Conference Calls, and the Education Director, but may be tailored to individual interests. This position is open to students and...
Thank you to all of our excellent candidates for standing in the 2019 Local Government Records 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
2 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!
Vice Chair/...
