Thank You all for voting in the most recent RAO election.
Your collective participation in the RAO Section is always appreciated – and for those who step up to run for leadership roles.
This year there were no uncontested spots on the ballot.
We thank the following candidates for stepping into the 2018-2019 leadership roles:
Rebecca May as the 2018-2019 RAO Chair
Julie Porterfield as the 2018-2019 RAO Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect
Amanda Hawk as 2018-2019 RAO...
Election Results:
Chair: Blake Relle; Archives Specialist C; Louisiana State Archives
Vice Chair/Incoming Chair: Emily Gonzalez; Archivist, Cambridge Historical Commission
Steering Committee:
Diana Banning; City of Portland Archives & Records Management (Oregon)
Phillip Smith: County Government Records Archives Assistant, Knox County Archives
Christina Bryant: Department Head Louisiana Division/City Archives; New Orleans Public Library
The agenda for our joint Section meeting with the Audio and Moving Image Section and the Visual Materials Section on Thursday, August 16 from 4:15 pm - 5:30pm is now available online. See you in D.C.!
The Archival History Section Steering Committee is excited to announce the schedule for the AHS meeting in DC on Thursday August 16, 4:15 – 5:30 pm. The Archival History Section will include an update on Archival History News, the awarding of the inaugural Archival History Article Award, and a panel and discussion: “Guide to Navigation in Perilous Times: Journeys through Archival History and Historiography” with presentations Drs. Alex H. Poole (Drexel University) and Ciaran B. Trace (The...
These suggested readings are intended to complement and enhance the Archival History Section panel presentation, “A Guide to Navigation in Perilous Times: Journeys through Archival History and Historiography” by Dr. Alex H. Poole and Dr. Ciaran B. Trace. Drs. Poole and Trace will draw from their recently published scholarship to introduce and discuss the nature and relevance of archival history and historiography at the AHS meeting Thursday August 16, 4:15 – 5:30 pm
Bibliography
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The Preservation Section has an exciting program planned for Wednesday, August 15th at 4 PM. The heart of the program will be a panel on Transparency in Disaster Recovery:
Nicole Davis, Supervisory Archivist at the Museum of Flight, SeattleDiane Wells, Archivist & Records Manager at the Diocese of OlympiaPresentation Title: With a Little Help from My Friends: Creating SHERN, an Emergency Response NetworkPresentation Abstract: Archivists, librarians, and museum professionals in Seattle have...
NEW! Preservation bookmarks featuring the agents of deterioration are now available to download.
Did you hear about the great preservation bookmarks that the Preservation Section premiered at SAA 2017? Missed your opportunity to snag a set? Need extras?
Now you can download and print your own!
If you are attending SAA this year in Washington DC, you don’t want to miss this year’s special staff ride. We will be visiting the Women in Military Service for America Memorial (WIMSA) on the morning of August 14th. The curator of the memorial will be giving us a personal tour of the memorial and their collections.
If you would like to attend, please RSVP to Laura Jowdy at moharchive@cmohs.org. The group will meet at the conference hotel and will leave at 9:00 to ride the metro...
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Please submit newsletter items about archives and human rights (writ broadly) to hilary.h.barlow@gmail.com. These can be recent publications, upcoming events or exhibitions, opportunities and scholarships, or something else entirely as long as it connects to archives and human rights. For the July newsletter, please send you submission by July 24, 2018.
The Library of Congress subject headings have been examined in the past for their classification of subjects relating to race, gender, and sexuality. Overlooked is subject headings that relate to disabilities. In the course of creating records for the archival and object material that form the P.T. Barnum Digital Collection, the project discovered the imperfections of the Library of Congress subject headings, and the need to develop standards and protocols for the material.
This resulted in...
Libraries have long played a role in supporting marginalised groups, with refugees and other newcomers just one example of those who benefit from the access to information they provide. On World Refugee Day 2018, IFLA has put together a briefing, based on papers presented at World Library and Information Congresses and satellite meetings in recent years.
In particular, they fulfill a variety of roles for newcomers, as providing sanctuaries (safe spaces), storehouses (places to record their...
As an institution dedicated to the history of Brooklyn, we are proud of the rich fabric of multicultural heritage in Brooklyn. Yesterday’s Supreme Court decision to uphold the government’s Muslim ban makes it even more imperative that we affirm our commitment to the histories of all Brooklynites. We want Brooklyn’s Muslim communities in particular to know that their stories, their struggles, and their contributions are embraced and deeply valued by the Brooklyn Historical Society.As part of our...
Reconciliation is rewriting Canada's memory banks as archivists across the country work to make their collections more open to and sensitive towards Indigenous people.
Library and Archives Canada is leading the way with a $12-million project to hire Aboriginal archivists to work in First Nations communities and to give more control over materials gathered there to the people who created them.
"Decolonization" is a hot topic among those charged with storing, organizing and making accessible the...
Juneteenth, a holiday that commemorates the announcement of the abolition of slavery on June 19, 1865, presents an opportunity to highlight a rare resource at Columbia’s RBML in the Frederic Bancroft Papers. Bancroft’s notebooks include interviews he conducted with former slaves during trips he took to the South in the early 1900s. Bancroft recorded their answers to questions he asked about their experiences under slavery as well as many of his own observations about life in the Jim Crow South....
In June 2017, Pride Toronto held its second annual “Pride Month.” More than 2.1 million people attended programming that spanned 25 days. Today, there are 45 sponsors listed on Pride Toronto’s Pride 2018 page, and it seems like the third annual instalment of Pride month in Toronto will be bigger than ever. Pride however has its roots, as we all know, in much humbler beginnings. To celebrate Pride month, we wanted to take a look at the very first Pride in Toronto: when was it? What was it? The...
Since May, the US government had taken more than 2,300 kids away from their families as a result of Attorney General Jeff Sessions' new "zero tolerance" immigration policy, which calls for criminally prosecuting all people entering the country illegally. Reports started surfacing of the ensuing chaos at the border; in one especially horrible case, a child was reportedly ripped from her mother's breast. As outrage grew, the question came up over and over again: Where were the children? Between...
Attending Archives/Records 2018 in Washington, DC? Please join SAA’s Web Archiving Section at 4PM on Wednesday, August 15, for our annual meeting, where we will discuss the resources available to you when web archiving needs arise rapidly in communities, government repositories, on campus, and elsewhere. Watch this space and add our meeting to you Sched calendar for room assignment updates: http://sched.co/ESnD
After section business, we will hear from some very special guests: Rachel...
Backcountry parkas and prototypes from the 1970s are some of the earliest examples of GORE-TEX fabrics garments in the Gore Archives collection.
By Alyce Graham Stiles, Heritage Communications/Archives
The world’s premier collection of GORE-TEX garments lives in a climate-controlled room with an FM-200 fire suppression system at a W. L. Gore & Associates facility in Newark, Delaware. It’s an archives storage space converted from what had been an...
Candidate Biographies and Statements
***Voting opens July 10th! Members will receive a separate email from SAA with voting instructions. Voting is open until July 31st.****
Chair
Stephen R. Curley
Museum Administrator
Tohono O’odham Nation Cultural Center & Museum (Topawa, Ariz.)
Bio: Stephen R. Curley, MLS is a member of the Navajo Nation and is the Administrator for the Tohono O’odham Nation Cultural Center & Museum. In this position, Stephen is responsible for establishing...
Conor Casey, MA, MLIS, CA
Roundtable/Section Service
It was a pleasure serving as Labor Archives Section Co-Chair in 2011-2013, 2013-2015, and 2016-2018. In my terms, I coordinated our roundtable’s adoption of bylaws to ensure our compliance with SAA council policy, spearheaded an investigative effort to determine the viability of a topical cross-repository labor collections search portal, enhanced access to our updated LAR repository directory by helping to update it and host it on the...
Candidate for Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect (one vacancy)
Taffey Hall
Taffey Hall has served as director of the Southern Baptist Historical Library and Archives (SBHLA) in Nashville, Tennessee since August 2016. Hall was the SBHLA archivist from May 2003-July 2016. The SBHLA is a worldwide center for the study of Baptist history, and one of the major denominational collections in the nation. It serves, by assignment of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC), as the central depository and archives of...
Slides, speaker notes, handouts, and worksheets are available from the beginners’ web archiving workshop led by SAA Web Archiving Section steering committee members at the Metropolitan New York Library Council (METRO) on May 30, 2018.
**Two additional volunteers are still needed for the steering committee! If you are interested in serving, please fill in your name in the “write-in” option on the ballot or email Section chair Christina Bryant at CBryant@nolalibrary.org. **
Vice Chair/Chair Elect and Steering Committee
Vice-Chair/Chair Elect, Local Government Records Section Nominee: Emily Gonzalez, Archivist, Cambridge Historical Commission Nominee Statement: I received my Masters degrees in Library and Information...
Meet our candidates for our Steering Committee for this year's elections.
Co-chair
Carol Street
Carol Street is the Undergraduate Research Archivist at the University of Kentucky Special Collections Research Center, where she manages the Learning Lab internship program for undergraduate students. She earned her MLS from Indiana University in 2007. Carol was previously the Architectural Records Archivist at Ball State University, where she was a lone arranger and first archivist for the...
