Help shape the future of the Society of American Archivists' Metadata and Digital Object Section (MDOS) by joining the Steering Committee!
Service on the MDOS Steering Committee is a manageable time commitment that offers you valuable experience as you contribute to our profession. You can help foster discussion, education, and collaboration among archivists interested in digital archival objects and the metadata that enables their access, management, and preservation.
The MDOS Steering...
The Metadata and Digital Object Section invites you to vote on a referendum that proposes updates to elected positions in the Standing Rules. This will allow the steering committee to be more nimble with balancing the workload of its members.
Please use the below ballot link to cast your vote. You must be logged in to access the page. Within the Ballot page, the “View Ballot” link under the Metadata and Digital Object Section will direct you to the SurveyMonkey election ballot. There are also...
Thank you to everyone who shared and participated in the 2024 Accessibility and Disability Section election call for candidates! We appreciate all seven of the nominations that we received and are glad to see a full slate and another competitive election. The names and statements of the candidates are posted below. Please take a few minutes to review them.
Section members will be voting for:
3 Steering Committee members (two-year terms)
1 Student/early-career member (one-year term)
1 Vice...
Good day, colleagues,
The International Archival Affairs Section (IAAS) of the Society of American Archivists (SAA) is seeking nominations for:
Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect (2-year term; serving year one as Junior Co-Chair and year two as Senior Co-Chair); and
One Steering Committee Member-at-Large (3-year term)
Our Steering Committee provides a great venue for your leadership! With two active virtual program series, we look forward to continuing these in the next few years as well as developing...
The SAA Archivists of Religious Collections Section has openings for two leadership positions:
Vice Chair (serves 1 year as Vice Chair and then 1 year as Chair).
Duties:
Send out call for Steering Committee nominations – request name, affiliation, bio, and statement of interest,
Submit candidate biographies to Newsletter Editor and Microsite Coordinator.
Send ballot information (listing of offices, number of vacancies, names of candidates, links to candidate...
The Performing Arts Section is seeking nominations for two open Steering Committee Member positions:
Steering Committee Members serve a two-year term, participate in steering committee meetings, and provide input and general support. They may be assigned to specific tasks as needed by the Co-chairs.
To learn more about these positions, please see our standing rules.
In the 2024-2025 year, the Section will focus on reactivating our newsletter/blog, continuing our outreach efforts, and pursuing...
Please join the Solo Archivists Section for an event on primary source instruction with Micaela Terronez!
UnBOXed: Instruction for Solo Archivists
Thursday, May 23, 2024
2pm Eastern / 1pm Central / 12pm Mountain / 11am Pacific / 10am Alaska / 8am Hawaiʻi
Register:
northeastern.zoom.us/meeting/register/...
Speaker:
Micaela Terronez is a Special Collections Librarian and Instructor at Augustana College in Rock Island, IL. She received her M.L.I.S. from The University of Iowa in 2019. Before her...
The SAA Public Library Archives and Special Collections Section seeks members to serve in leadership positions for the next fiscal year, 2024-2025! Getting involved in PLASC leadership is a great way to engage in professional development and public service, and connect with colleagues throughout the United States.
Time commitment is approximately 3 hours/month, including attendance at a virtual monthly meeting. SAA Annual Meeting attendance is NOT required. An individual SAA membership is NOT...
The Archival History Section (AHS) Steering Committee is seeking nominations for the following five vacancies:
Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect: one vacancy, one year as Vice-Chair and one year as Chair
Member-At-Large: three vacancies, one year term
Student/Early Career Member: one vacancy, one year term
The Steering Committee meets up to 1 hour once a month from September through June and holds a public business meeting in the summer. The Steering Committee is primarily responsible for planning and...
The Accessibility and Disability Section (ADS) Steering Committee is seeking nominations by Monday, May 27th for the following five (5) vacancies:
Vice Chair/Chair-Elect: one (1) vacancy; one year as Vice Chair and one year as Chair.
Steering Committee member: three (3) vacancies; two-year term.
Student/early-career Steering Committee member: one (1) vacancy; one-year term.
The Steering Committee meets for up to 45-minutes once a month from September through May (nine meetings) and holds an...
The recording for our second "UnBOXED: Small Digitization Projects" event, held on April 26, is now available! Please click here to view.
In the Part 2 recording, you will hear from the following panelists:
Akio Lis, American Numismatic Association Library (Colorado)
The American Numismatic Association Library has been working to catalog their archives and digitize and publish portions of the archive collection online. At this time, they have fully digitized five collections, both with staff...
Please join the Visual Materials steering committee for an informal gathering on Wednesday, May 8th at 1pm ET / 10am PT. Come learn about what we’ve been up to, ask us questions about the section, and hear what we’ve got planned in the near future!
This is also a great opportunity to meet us if you are considering running for office – the call for candidates is coming soon!
Register here: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYuce6grzorGtcsqeQEW1s5chl-x6vJGtl2#/registration
The Technical Subcommittee on Encoded Archival Standards (TS-EAS) is pleased to release Encoded Archival Description (EAD) 4.0, a draft updated version of the standard for public review and comment. To ensure the greatest possible input from EAD users around the world, the subcommittee is calling for comments on the proposed changes to the current version, EAD3 (deprecated), schema and tag library, and the previous version, EAD 2002, DTD, schema, and tag library. The deadline for comments on...
Please join us on May 1, 2024 at 4:00PM EDT for the next in our series of discussions with colleagues in the field. At this meeting we are fortunate to be joined by archivists from the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C.
Meet and Greet #4
About the Kennedy Center Archives
The Kennedy Center Archives was established in 2019 to preserve and promote access to the history of the nation's cultural arts center, which opened in 1971 as a living memorial to...
Please join the SAA User Experience Section for its inaugural section meeting! UX Section Steering Committee members will discuss the section's creation and its initial goals, followed by an open discussion among Section members and other attendees about how we'll collectively build a user experience-focused community of practice through the Section. A fuller agenda will be posted closer to the meeting date.
Vote in the Preservation Section Special Election! Ballots are now open until Friday, March 29.
Ballot Page: https://mysaa.archivists.org/myballots
The “View Ballot” link will direct users to the usual SurveyMonkey election ballot. Users must be logged in to access the page.
Thank you to both of our excellent candidates for standing in the 2024 Preservation Section special election. Please take some time to review their candidate statements and get to know them so you can make an informed...
A new issue of SOLO, the newsletter of the Solo Archivists Section, is now available. This spring issue includes lovely highlights from a few of our fellow solo arrangers, updates on exciting events in our section's near future, and one solo arranger's experience with a creative method of crafting finding aids.
If you are interested in submitting to SOLO, you can send submissions for highlights through this Google Form, and send any updates and/or articles to soloarchivists.saa@gmail.com.
We invite you to participate as a guest author in our section’s blog series on the memory lab experience from the perspective of those operating a “lab” and maintaining a DIY digitization program for the public.
We want to hear your memory lab experiences for the benefit of public libraries considering starting their own digitization program or looking to enhance their current program.
Guidelines
1. Who: blog post can be written by an individual or team facilitating a public library...
ARCS is holding a special election for the vacant position of Secretary of the SAA ARCS Steering Committee. You will be voting for one Secretary, for a two-year term. One candidate has been nominated for the position.
Shoshana Traum | Biography and Candidate Statement: "I'd like to offer to serve as secretary of the steering committee for the Archivists of Religious Collections Section, if I am eligible. I am a recent graduate of Simmons University's School of Library and Information Science,...
Please join the Solo Archivists Section for two panel events on small digitization projects! There will be time for Q&A so please bring your questions.
UnBOXED: Small Digitization Projects 1
Thursday, March 28, 2024
2pm Eastern / 1pm Central / 12pm Mountain / 11am Pacific / 10am Alaska / 8am Hawaiʻi
Register: https://northeastern.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwsd--orjwsG9VtC5ntkXLPNgxJ52ixAITe
Panelists:
Katherine Banks, Milligan University (Tennessee)
For almost ten years, the archivist...
2024 Special Election: Candidate Statement
Many thanks to all of our excellent candidates for putting themselves forward in this election cycle. Please read and consider their statements carefully before submitting your votes.
The positions up for election this cycle are:
Vice Chair / Chair Elect for a 2-year term (1 position)
SAA will be sending the ballots out to all members, so watch your inbox and vote!
Vice Chair/Chair-Elect Candidate
The following candidate is running for the Vice...
2024 Special Election: Candidate Statements
Thank you to all of our excellent candidates for standing in the 2024 Preservation Section special 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 Member-At-Large (Two-year term)
Ballots will be managed by SAA staff. Once the ballots have been prepared they will be foung here.
Steering Committee Member Candidates
The following candidates...
Announcing the Raymond W. Smock Fellowship to support attendance at the annual meeting of the Association of Centers for the Study of Congress. The meeting is May 15-17, at the National Archives Research Center in Washington D.C. The 2024 meeting host is the Center for Legislative Archives.
The Smock Fellowship of $1000 is open to those who work at an ACSC member institution and have not previously attended an annual meeting. If you know someone who fits these criteria, please forward this to...
If you missed the SAS "UnBOXed" event on February 9 about the new SAS Buddy Program, or just prefer to hear the program summarized verbally rather than read about it, check out the recording here!
If the event has inspired you to look into joining the Buddy List program for 2023-2024, visit the sign-up form. Other details can be found on the microsite.
Any questions about the program? Or ideas for future UnBOXed events? Send those to your SAS steering committee at soloarchivists.saa@gmail....
