Nominee for Education Coordinator (2-year term)
Leah Constantine, Archives Senior Manager, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
Leah Constantine is the Archives Senior Manager at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, where she explores and preserves the vast history of culture and performance in New York City and nationwide. Traditionally a museums specialist, Leah has enjoyed gathering research and skills from past experiences at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The New Museum, and Pratt...
Thank you to all of our excellent candidates for participating in the 2024 Native American Archives Section election.
You will be voting for:
One Vice Chair/Chair-Elect, for a two-year term
One Secretary/Recorder, for a one-year term
Four Steering Committee members, for two-year terms
Ballots will be managed by SAA staff through SurveyMonkey - Please keep an eye on your inbox for when the ballots open!
Vice Chair/Chair-Elect Candidates
The following candidates are running for the Vice Chair...
Visual Materials Section event this THURSDAY, November 2 @ 3:30pm ET / 12:30pm PT
Annual Meeting Proposal Brainstorming
Do you have a project or an idea related to visual materials you'd like to share but need a little encouragement? Do you have a question about working with visual materials that you'd like to know the answer to?
Come join the Visual Materials section for an informal brainstorming session to make connections and workshop ideas for annual meeting session proposals. Let's get...
Member-At-Large
Denise Gallo Provincial Archivist of the Religious of Jesus and Mary
Denise Gallo has served as Provincial Archivist for the Religious of Jesus and Mary in Warwick,R.I. since 2018. Prior to that, she held the same position for the Daughters of Charity, Provinceof St. Louise, Emmitsburg, MD. Dee’s transition to religious archives came after 10 years asHead of Acquisitions and Processing at the Music Division of the Library of Congress. Dee has been a member of ARCS, having...
The SAA Performing Arts Section is happy to announce our first "meet and greet" virtual meeting of this new membership year. The meeting features special guest, Robinson McClellan, Associate Curator of Music Manuscripts and Printed Music at the Morgan Library & Museum. He will be discussing the exhibition, "Crafting the Ballet Russes: The Robert Owen Lehman Collection," which is on display through September 22, 2024.
The meeting will take place:September 10, 2024 at 4:00PM EDT
Please...
The SAA Committee on Ethics and Professional Conduct virtual Annual Meeting featured guest speakers from the Term Labor Best Practices Working Group. Alison Clemens, Kit Messick, and Laura Starratt discussed the development and recommendations of their Best Practices for Archival Term Positions white paper. The Best Practices for Archival Term Positions engages deeply with the ethical tradeoffs inherent in staffing archives through term positions, and provides actionable recommendations for...
Dear IAAS members:
We are pleased to announce the International Archival Affairs Section Steering Committee leadership for 2024-2025. Congratulations to our incoming committee members: Jennifer Dantchev (Junior Co-Chair) and Rachel Poppen (the new Steering Committee Member at-Large). Karen Trivette has officially rotated into the Senior Co-Chair role!
Current 2024-2025 Steering Committee roster:
* Karen Trivette, Senior Co-Chair (Alma Mater Europaea University-European Center Maribor, Slovenia...
If you missed the SAA Solo Archivists Section (SAS) annual section meeting on July 22, or just want to rewatch the announcements or Allison Bundy's interesting and informative deep dive into implementing ArchivEra at her repository, the recording is now available!
If you're only interested in Allison's presentation, it begins (after a short introduction by SAS incoming chair Hilary Swett) at about the 23-minute mark.
A reminder of the content of her talk:
Allison's case study covers the reasons...
The 2024 Summer Newsletter includes:
A letter from the outgoing MAS Chair, Tara Laver
A letter from the incoming MAS Chair, Laura Uglean Jackson
News from the MAS section about the recent business meeting
Introducing the National Postal Museum Archives by Mitch Toda
From bad OCR to transcription to AI: Good communication with IT was the final solution by Molly Stothert-Maurer
Expediting Discovery and Access in Archives at the National Gallery of Art by Nina Aguiar Shempliner
2023 Call for Applicants - Associate Editor for Case Studies on Teaching with Primary Sources
The Teaching with Primary Sources sub-committee of the Reference, Access and Outreach Section of the Society of American Archivists is accepting applications for the role of Associate Editor for the Case Studies on Teaching With Primary Sources series. For more information about the series, visit: https://www2.archivists.org/publications/epubs/Case-Studies-Teaching-With-Primary-Sources.
The Associate...
We are pleased to announce the new members of our Steering Committee:Natalie Worsham, ChairElizabeth Jones-Minsinger, Vice Chair/Chair ElectKristin Nyitray, Member-at-LargeSebastian Modrow, Member-at-LargeMelissa Smith, Member-at-LargeElizabeth “Liza” Whitfield, Student/Early Career Member
Congratulations to the following winners of our most recent election!
Vice Chair/Chair-Elect: Amanda McGrory.
Student/Early-Career: Elizabeth Pineo.
Members: Anne Marie Hamilton-Brehm, Talea Anderson, and Ruohua Han.
Speaking of Amanda, you will be able hear her as an analyst on some broadcasts during the upcoming Paralympics!
A recording of the Museum Archives Symposium, co-hosted by the Museum Archives Section and the Yale Center for British Art May 10, 2024, is now available. Timestamps for each session have been added to the program site.
A huge thank you to all those who ran and voted in the 2024 MDOS elections this year! Please join us in welcoming the incoming steering committee members.
Incoming Co-Chair (2024-2027): Laura Drake Davis, Digital Project Specialist, Library of Congress
Steering Committee Member (2024-2027): Nashieli Marcano, Archivist for Digital Collections, Furman University
Communication Liaison (2024-2026): Tomeka Jackson, Library Resident, Clemson University
We are so excited to have them on board....
Please join the Science, Technology and Health Care section for our annual meeting to be held virtually on Tuesday, July 30 from 11am-12:30pm (PST) / 1pm-2:30pm (CST) / 2pm-3:30pm (EST).
Following an update from SAA Council Liaison Jasmine Jones, a brief business meeting, the program will feature four lightning talk presentations and a moderated Q&A on archives outreach programs and events. The meeting is free and open to all who would like to attend but advance registration is required...
Please join us for the Archival History Section (AHS) annual business meeting on Tuesday, July 30 at 12 PM EST, 11 AM CT. During the meeting we will cover old business, announce the winner of the AHS annual archival history award as well as the election of the new board, and a presentation by Fallon Carey of the National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition (NABS). Below is a biography and summary of her presentation.
Bio: Fallon Carey joined the team at NABS in fall of 2022. She...
2024 DRS Annual Meeting Agenda
Time: Monday, July 29th – 2 pm - 3:30 pm EST.
2:00 pm – 2:10 pm = Welcome & Announcements
2:10 pm - 2:30 pm = Digital Design Record Committee presentation
2:30 pm – 2:40 pm = Presentation: “Post 1991 Digital Records” by Becca Brown and Paige Adair of the Portman Archives
2:40 pm – 3:15 pm = Q & A for presenters and Open Floor for other DRS-related topics
We hope you can join us, even if it’s only for just a few minutes...
This year we have a few positions up for election in the Archival Educators Section:
Vice-Chair (1)
Steering Committee members (up to 3)
We have a slate of great candidates. One is nominated for vice-chair and five for the steering committee. Please learn more about the candidates and cast your vote!
List of Positions
Vice-Chair/Chair Elect (2-year commitment, 1 year as Vice-Chair and 1 year as Chair): Serves as Vice-Chair from the conclusion of the 2024 annual meeting through the 2025...
As solo or small shop archivists, we wear so many hats and it's hard to keep them all straight. Your Solo Archivists Section leaders know all about it so we are hosting a series of informal chats on Zoom that will give us the chance to be alone, together. We host these Solo Sessions on one Friday every other month. These unrecorded meetups are aimed at broad topics announced in advance and moderated by steering committee officers. We encourage SAS members to use this as a welcoming space to...
UnBOXed: LAS Treasures
Join the Lone Arrangers Section for a professional "show-and-tell" as we marvel at the treasures from several different archival collections, including loss records from Titanic; pieces from the collections of over 25 jewelry tool and die companies spanning from the 1860s to today; a 15th century psalter done by hand with gold leaf; a Neptune certificate for crossing the equator; and more! The latest of the LAS UnBOXed series, this event will be sure to thrill and...
As always, the steering committee would like to express our heartfelt thank you to all of you who voted in our annual election, particularly since this year included a special election as well. Thanks for being active Preservation Section members!
We are very excited to announce the results of this year's election: our new Vice Chair/Chair-Elect is Heather Hamilton, and our new Member-at-Large is Kelley Moulton.
Heather Hamilton is a paper conservator at the Harry Ransom Center at the...
SAA's Science, Technology and Health Care Section has initiated a project to highlight underrepresented and diverse persons and groups documented in archival collections on the history of STEM and medicine. The hope is that the shared information will be a useful resource for researchers. All archival repositories are encouraged to contribute information for inclusion on the STHC "Unsung Heroes" webpage.
Please join us for the 2024 Annual Business Meeting of the Performing Arts Section, which will take place on Tuesday, July 9th from 05:00 PM to 6:30 PM (CT).
We will briefly review the Section’s work over the past year, hear updates from our Council liaison, and announce election results. Following these announcements, we will have an informal panel discussion with colleagues who will share something that has resonated with them recently that they have incorporated into their more traditional...
A recording of the open session on EAD revision hosted by the SAA Technical Subcommittee on Encoded Archival Standards (TS-EAS) in now available on the SAA YouTube channel. The meeting was held in conjunction with the annual meeting in Washington, DC on July 26, and provided an opportunity gathering feedback from the community about the ongoing development of the standard. It also included an update on the development of Records in Contexts (RiC), and its potential impact on the EAD standard....
