Below is the Candidate information for the Labor Archives Section Co-Chair position for the 2019-2021 Term.
Ben BlakeDirector, George Meany Labor Archives, University of Maryland, College Park
Candidate StatementBefore becoming the Director of the George Meany Labor Archives, University of Maryland, College Park in 2016, I had significant experience in labor archives, including two years at San Francisco State's Labor Archives and Research Center and have been responsible for the archives...
Open positions
Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect – 3-year term, August 2019 – August 2022
Steering Committee Member (2 seats) – 3-year term, August 2019 – August 2022
Candidates
Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect
Annalise Berdini (she/her)
Steering Committee Member (2 seats)
Andrea Belair (she/her)
Elizabeth Carron (she/her)
Statements to Voters and Biographies
Vice Chair/Chair-Elect
Annalise BerdiniAnnalise Berdini is the Digital Archivist for University Archives at Princeton University. She is...
Christina Bleyer, Junior Co-Chair
Bio:
Christina Bleyer, PhD is Director of Special Collections and Archives at Trinity College in Hartford, CT. She previously served as Head of Special Collections and Senior Archivist at the Benson Latin American Collection at the University of Texas at Austin. She earned her Master’s and Doctorate in Philosophy at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale where until 2016 she managed the institution’s manuscript collections.Her research is focused...
Nominees for Vice Chair:
Tori Maches, Digital Archivist, UC San Diego
Running for Vice Chair of SAA’s Web Archiving Section represents an opportunity to use my past, local-level leadership experience, as well as my current role as UC San Diego’s digital archivist, to support the section’s internal efforts, and its collaborations with the wider professional community. In addition, my work managing UC San Diego’s web archiving program has given me a sense of both the progress the archival ...
Thank you to all of our excellent candidates for standing in the 2019 Reference, Access, and Outreach 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 three-year term (Successful candidate will serve one year as Vice-Chair, will automatically become the RAO Chair for the following year, and will serve one year as Immediate Past...
Vice Chair/Chair-Elect
Tamar Zeffren, Archival Collections Manager, American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee
Brief Bio
I am the Archival Collections Manager at the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) in New York, the world’s leading Jewish humanitarian aid organization. I received my M.A. in archival management from NYU and am a Digital Archives Specialist. I have extensive volunteer experience, including two years on the Board of the Archivists Round Table of Metropolitan...
Referendum to Change Standing Rules
A referendum will be placed on this year’s ballot proposing a change to the Standing Rules. This change will allow Newsletter Committee members (1-2 persons) to be part of the Steering Committee. These members will remain appointed by the Steering Committee. Please refer to the PDF for the exact edits to the Standing Rules and vote to either accept or reject these changes.
Nominations for STHC Section Jr. Co-Chair
Jennifer Langford
Archivist/Special...
Location
JW Marriott Austin
102 E 2nd Street
Austin, TX 78701
See map: Google Maps
Meeting Date(s):
August 3, 2019, 10:00 am to 11:15 am
The Section's annual meeting will include discussion of ongoing projects and future plans. The program will also feature lightning talks (10 minutes) that highlight the stories of women, people of color, immigrants, people with disabilities, and others often overlooked, undervalued, and sometimes lost in the science, technology and healthcare archival ...
Vice Chair/Chair-Elect Candidates
The following candidates are running for the Vice Chair/Chair-Elect (or Co-chair) position:
Adam Winters
Archivist, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
Adam Winters has served as the head archivist at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky since 2014, having been introduced into the field through work as a part-time archives assistant in 2009. In 2017, he accepted an invitation from the Kentucky Baptist Convention to manage their...
Meet our wonderful slate of candidates for the 2019 WCS election! The two individuals receiving the most votes will serve as Co-Vice Chairs during 2019-2020 and as Co-Chairs of the section in 2020-2021.
Enid Ocegueda
Biography
Enid Ocegueda is currently serving as an Archival Specialist at the Hoover Institution Library & Archives, Stanford University. She is a recent graduate from the San Jose State University MLIS program. She also holds a Bachelor of Arts in History from the University...
Co-Chair
Brenna Edwards
Bio: Brenna Edwards is currently the Project Digital Archivist at the Rose Library at Emory University in Atlanta, GA. She is a recent graduate of the University of North Carolina's School of Information and Library Science, where she concentrated on archives management. While at UNC, she worked with PlayMakers Repertory Company on organizing their archives and updating their inventory list. Outside of work, she is a team leader for the Atlanta team of the American...
Get to know the PLASC Steering Committee candidates. See their statements below.
VICE-CHAIR:
Derek T. Mosley
Archives Division ManagerAuburn Avenue Research Library on African American Culture and History, Atlanta, Georgia
Derek T. Mosley is the archivist/division manager at the Auburn Avenue Research Library on African American Culture and History, a special library of the Fulton County Library System. He previously worked at the Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library and...
The Society of American Archivists Archival History Section (AHS) is seeking candidates for four open positions:
Section vice chair/chair-elect
Three steering committee members
Steering committee members serve for one year. The vice chair/chair-elect serves for two years (one year as vice chair, and one year as chair). For more details, please see the section’s standing rules.
Nominees must be current members of the Society of American Archivists to be considered by the steering committee...
Thank you to all of our excellent candidates for standing in the 2019 Museum 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 Chair-Elect/Chair (two-year term)
One Newsletter Editor (two-year term)
Ballots will be managed by SAA staff through Survey Monkey; keep an eye on your inbox for when the ballot opens!
Chair-elect / Chair
2019-20 / 2020-21
Ryan Evans...
Slate for the 2019 Preservation Section Election
The 2019 election is for Vice-Chair/Chair Elect and Member-At-Large as well as an update to our Section standing rules. Election will run June 25-July 16. Section members will receive an email with a unique Survey Monkey link to vote.
Vice-Chair/Chair Elect
We have 2 candidates for 1 position.
- Dyani Feige, director of Preservation Services, Conservation Center for Art & Historic Artifacts- Kara McClurken, director of Preservation Services,...
Visit our Elections page to meet your candidates for the upcoming CMT Section Elections!
Human Rights Archives Section 2019 ELECTION CANDIDATES
The 2019 election for the Human Rights Archives section of the Society of American Archivists has the following candidates running for these positions:
1 incoming co-chair position serving 2 years
4 steering committee member positions ech serving a 1 year term
Ballots will be managed by SAA and distributed in mid-June to all SAA registered members. Results will be announced in mid-July via SAA listservs, the HRA blog, and Twitter social...
Candidates for Vice Chair/Chair Elect
Alexis Antracoli
Biographical Statement:
Alexis Antracoli is Interim Assistant University Librarian for Rare Books and Special Collections at Princeton University Library. Previously she worked at Drexel University Libraries and the University of Michigan Bentley Historical Library. She has published on web archiving, inclusive description practices, and the acquisition and preservation of born-digital audiovisual content. Alexis is active in the Society...
The 2019 DSGS / WCS joint section meeting will feature a panel of presenters speaking on recent efforts to provide access to archival materials concerning women and/or the LGBTQIA+ communities.
Gina K. Armstrong will discuss the creation and impact of the Howard Cruse collection and its contribution to reclaiming important space for marginalized communities at the Birmingham-Southern College. Ellen Brooks will present on a recent project to collect oral history interviews with 100 notable women...
The SAA Women's Collections Section is currently seeking nominees for the roles of Vice Co-Chair/Co-Chair Elect!
For the first year of the two-year term, these two elected officers will hold the positions of Vice Co-Chairs. The second year in office, the elected officers will hold the positions of Co-Chairs. Newly elected officers will assume office immediately following the conclusion of the Annual Meeting in August. New officers do not have to attend the annual meeting.
The role of the...
Hello MARSians, it’s staff ride time. This year we will have a private tour of the Texas State Archives. In addition to being the official archive of the state of Texas, TSLAC’s collections contain muster listings, correspondence, battle flags, artifacts and other materials related to Texans serving the Republic, the Confederacy, and the United States during times of war. This tour is limited to 15 individuals, so if you are interested in joining the tour you must RSVP before the event. ...
There are two MARS board positions up for election in 2019: Vice-Chair/Chair Elect and Communications Liaison. Here you can read about the candidates before casting your vote. Thank you to our candidates and to the MARS membership for your continuing participation!
Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect
Candidate: Eliot Wilczek
Biography Statement
Eliot Wilczek is the Corporate Records and Archives Manager at The MITRE Corporation. MITRE is a not-for-profit company that operates multiple federally funded...
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 the section, sending relevant announcements to the section via the listserv, and updating the section's...
The University of Michigan Bentley Historical Library is seeking to fill the position of the Michigan Historical Collections field archivist, more formally known as the the Johanna Meijer Magoon Principal Archivist, thanks to a wonderful endowment gift that supports the position.
Job posting is available on the University of Michigan Careers website:
http://careers.umich.edu/job_detail/173345/archivist_associate_archivist_assistant_archivist
Candidate Biographies and Statements
Vice Chair/Chair-elect
Michelle Sweetser
Michelle Sweetser is the Head Librarian and University Archivist at the Center for Archival Collections (CAC) at Bowling Green State University (BGSU). Before joining BGSU in 2016, she served as the University Archivist at Marquette University (2004-2016). Sweetser has been involved with the C&U Section since 2011, first serving as the newsletter editor and then managing the newsletter’s transition...
