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...
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...
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...
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/...
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...
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...
