Meet our wonderful slate of candidates for the 2018 WCS election! The two individuals receiving the most votes will serve as Co-Vice Chairs during 2018-2019 and as Co-Chairs of the section in 2019-2020.
Danielle Butler
Biography
I am currently an archivist at the Butler Center for Arkansas Studies, a department of the Central Arkansas Library System, in Little Rock, Arkansas. I completed an undergraduate degree in History at Ouachita Baptist University in 2014 and completed a masters degree in...
Open positions
Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect – 3-year term, August 2018 – August 2021
Steering Committee Member (2 seats) – 3-year term, August 2018 – August 2021
Candidates
Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect
Susan Malsbury
Steering Committee Member (2 seats)
Jane Kelly
Scott Kirycki
Kelsey O'Connell
Statements to Voters and Biographies
Vice Chair/Chair-Elect
Susan Malsbury
Biography:
Susan Malsbury is the Digital Archivist for The New York Public Library, working with born digital archival...
Just a brief note to redirect all followers and participants of our webinar series Desmantelando Fronteras/Breaking Down Borders, to please use the following link, fiuconnect.adobeconnect.com/rr5i07vzfz0q,to access the June 14th webinar presentation titled: Breaking Down Borders Through International Collaboration: Cuban Repositories and US Institutions, scheduled at 2:00 pm EST. Los esperamos!
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SAA Election Ballot 2018
Chair/Co-Chair
Patrick Midtlyng (pmid@loc.gov)
Patrick Midtlyng is the Head of the Processing Unit for Recorded Sound at the Library of Congress’s National Audiovisual Conservation Center, where he oversees the ingest, organization, inventory control and cataloging of all recorded sound collection items and related materials acquired by the Library of Congress. Before LC, Patrick served as the Audio and Moving Image Archivist for the Special Collections Research...
Candidates for Vice Chair/Chair Elect
Angela Stanley
Biographical Statement
Angela Stanley is Director of Georgia HomePLACE, which, in partnership with the Digital Library of Georgia, offers preservation consultations, scanning equipment, training, and digital project management. Prior to joining the Georgia Public Library Service in 2016, Stanley was Head of Archives and Special Collections at the Athens Regional Library System in Athens, Georgia. She began her career at the New York Public...
The three candidates that are running for the Steering Committee Member (3-year term) position are:
David Kramer
Bio: David Kramer is a library science student at Syracuse University. He is focusing on archiving. He also currently is interning at the Providence Athenaeum, where he is helping to catalog and weed from their collection.
Statement: I am fairly new to the archiving field, but am already thrilled to be a part of it. Between my courses at Syracuse and my work at the Athenaeum, I have...
Bio: Amanda Moreno is a graduate of the MA/MSLIS dual-degree program in Latin American and Caribbean Studies and Library and Information Science from New York University and Long Island University. During her graduate study, she was awarded an NYU MacCracken Fellowship, ALA Spectrum scholarship and a fellowship from ARL’s Initiative to Recruit a Diverse Workforce; she also participated in the Smithsonian’s Latino Museum Studies Program.
As the Archivist for the Cuban Heritage Collection...
New Military Archives Section Bylaws
This proposed 2018 version of the Bylaws simplifies the governance of the Section, expands leadership opportunities, ensures continuity in leadership, increases MARS’ efficiency, and brings the Section in-line with SAA Section rules.
What follows below is a summary of the proposed changes and some of the reasoning behind them. Please see the attached document for the proposed Bylaws in their entirety. Deleted text is struck-through and added text is...
SAA RAO Annual Meeting Agenda - As Of May 30, 2018
Date: Thursday August 16, 2018
Time: 4:15 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.
Location: Room – as of May 30, 2018 – on the SAA website – is “To Be Determined”. Marriott Wardman Park Hotel, 2660 Woodley Road NW, Washington, DC 20008.
Business Portion of Meeting: From 4:15 p.m. to 4:55 p.m.
Welcome! - Alison Stankrauff
RAO Leadership and Election Update: - Su Kim Chung
Communication Committee Update: - Rebecca Bizonet, Kris Bronstad, Julie Porterfield,...
Nominations for Vice Chair/Chair-Elect (1 open position):
Adrienne Cain
Nominations for Steering Committee (2 open positions):
Ellen Brooks
Andy Kolovos
Candidate details
Vice Chair/Chair Elect
Adrienne Cain
Adrienne Cain joined Baylor University’s Institute for Oral History in August 2016 as Assistant Director. She holds the rank of Lecturer on the Baylor University faculty and, in addition, serves as the Secretary/Treasurer of the Texas Oral History Association (TOHA). Since coming to...
Annual meeting agenda
Thursday, August 16, 4:15–5:30 pm
Join us to discuss CMT’s Documentation Portal and Repository Profiles; receive updates about tool-centric working groups and tool providers; and share tips, tools, and workarounds that have enriched collections work, assessment, understanding, outreach, or other aspects of our responsibilities.
1. Updates on CMT work: Documentation Portal, Repository Profiles, Member Directory
2. Archon Users Collaborative update, Matt Gorzalski and Scott...
Candidate for Vice Chair/Chair-elect
Christian Kelleher
Biographical statement:
Christian holds MLIS (2000) and MA in Journalism (2014) degrees from the University of Texas at Austin. Before joining the University of Houston Libraries as Head of Special Collections, he was the head archivist at Texas’s Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection, where he also managed UT Libraries’ Human Rights Documentation Initiative, and an archivist and records manager with History Associates Incorporated...
Spring is finally here, which means it's time to elect next year's Lone Arrangers leadership.
Here are this year's candidates:
Vice Chair/Chair Elect
Ruth Slagle
Bio
While completing my B.A. in History at Asbury University, 2014, I had my first encounters in an archive through an internship working in a backlog collection. After receiving my MLIS degree from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, May 2017, I worked as a student archivist for the Madison County Clerk and Recorder's Office...
The following SAA members are running for positions on the Manuscript Repositories Section steering committee:
Vice chair / Chair elect
Brenna Edwards, Project Digital Archivist, Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Books Library (MARBL), Emory University
Education: MSLS from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC; BS in Web Design from Tennessee Technological University
Professional Experience: Currently the Project Digital Archivist at the Stuart A. Rose Manuscript,...
To maximize training opportunities for people engaged in sustaining and advancing indigenous culture, the Bush Foundationhttp://www.atalm.org/sites/all/modules/extlink/extlink.png); background-position: right center; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;"> is providing up to $75,000 in scholarship funding for eligible applicants from Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota and the 23 Native Nations that share the geography to attend the 2018 ATALM Conference.
Details and the application are...
Please read the biographies and statements of interest for the 2018 Records Management Steering Committee candidates: https://www2.archivists.org/groups/records-management-section/2018-candidates-for-records-management-section-steering-committee-
The Section's membership will also be asked to approve proposed standing rules changes. You may review them here: https://www2.archivists.org/groups/records-management-section/proposed-2018-standing-rules-changes
SOCIETY OF AMERICAN ARCHIVISTS
Archival History Section
Steering Committee Candidates
2018-2019
The 2018 election will take place online in early July. Three Steering Committee members will be elected to a one-year term. The vice chair/chair-elect serves for two years (one year as vice chair, and one year as chair). Current Vice Chair Alex Poole will become AHS Chair at the close of the AHS annual meeting in August.
VICE CHAIR/CHAIR-ELECT (vote for one)
Cory Nimer (Brigham Young...
Check out the 2018 candidates for Vice-Chair/Chair Elect and the Steering Committee
Archivists and Archives of Color Section (AAC) 2018-2019 Slate of Candidates includes three candidates for two positions: Steering Committee Member (two year term, social media focus) and Vice Chair (two-year term: first year as Vice-Chair and second year as Chair).
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 blog...
Interested in protecting archives and cultural heritage objects from the threats of crimes? The Security Section is seeking nominations for a new member to join the leadership. We are seeking candidates for the position of Chair-Elect. This is a three-year term (August 2018 to August 2021) - year one as Chair-Elect, year two as Chair, and year three as Immediate Past Chair. We encourage candidates from any size or type of archive or cultural heritage institution, and even beyond the archives...
Candidates Information for the 2018 STHC Section Elections
The Junior Co-Chair is elected annually by the section membership for a two-year term, serving in year one as Junior Co-Chair and in year two as Senior Co-Chair. Electronic balloting will begin in early July and it will be conducted by SAA staff. Election results will be announced before the annual meeting in August.
Junior Co-Chair Candidates
Alison Oswald
Biography
Alison Oswald is currently an archivist in the Archives Center ,...
We have three candidates for our three open positions. Cyndi Shein of University of Nevada, Las Vegas is up for Vice Chair/Chair-Elect. Sarah Jones also of University of Nevada, Las Vegas is up for Secretary. Katy Rawdon of Temple University is up for Member-at-Large. Please read below for candidate biographies and statements of interest.
Vice Chair/Chair-Elect
Cyndi Shein
Head, Special Collections & Archives Technical Services
University Libraries, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Biography...
CPS Steering is putting forward the following language to create a co-chair for our Electronic Records Committee:
X. ELECTRONIC RECORDS COMMITTEE
The Electronic Records Committee is composed of the vice chair of the Congressional Papers Section, who serves as the co-chair of the committee, two or more members appointed by the Steering Committee, and an ex officio member designated from by the Center for Legislative Archives at the National Archives and Records Administration. The members of...
