This prize encourages and rewards an article or other short piece of superior excellence in the field of archival history, regardless of subject, time period, or national boundaries. Stand-alone chapters in edited essay collections or anthologies will also be considered. Nominations may include works by archivists as well as by others writing scholarly works on the history of records and archives. We generally make two such awards each year.
Nomination Deadline: All nominations should be...
The Society of American Archivists Preservation Section is excited to announce our Call for Proposals for the annual Preservation Week Twitter Conference on Wednesday, April 27th. As part of ALA Preservation Week 2022, this free and inclusive conference will cover a range of preservation related topics for archivists and librarians (or any interested party!). We encourage you to follow along on Twitter using the hashtag #PresTC22!
Each speaker will have a 15 minute time slot allocated to their...
Help Update the Labor Archives in the United States and Canada: A Directory...Again
By Conor Casey, LAR Co-Chair
The Labor Archives in the United States and Canada: A Directory is an important topical listing of labor and labor-related collections that is valuable to both labor archivists and to scholars and researchers. Initial work on the directory was done in the early 1990s by the Wagner Labor Archives in New York City. A survey then conducted identified "archivists, librarians, and labor...
Ashlyn Velte, Senior Processing Archivist for Rare and Distinctive Collections at the University of Boulder Libraries, and Sarah Coates, the Interim University Archivist at the George A. Smathers Libraries at the University of Florida, will present: "Balancing Privacy and Access: Private and Publicly Identifiable Information in Archival Collections."
Archivists at Colleges and Universities must navigate the presence of Private and Personally Identifiable information in their collections. ...
The Spring 2022 Issue of SOLO, newsletter of the Lone Arrangers Section, is now available. Click here to go to our Newsletter page and read the new issue.
You can find all past issues of SOLO here on our Newsletter page.
SOLO, newsletter of the Lone Arrangers Section, is published twice each year in the spring and fall. Deadlines for contributions are January 15 (spring issue) and July 15 (fall issue). Articles, photos, and announcements of interest to the community of solo archivists should be...
The Independent Archivists Section seeks to offer members twice monthly standing social hour meetings designed for members to talk and support one another. Social hours will be held twice monthly on the 1st and and 3rd Wed. on each month. We hope you will be able to join us for one of these two offerings. A tentative agenda is attached.
The first Wed. of the month for March is the 2nd, the social hour meeting will take place at at 9am PST, 10am MNT, and 12pm EST:
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/...
This project gathers data about the current state of institutional web-available histories of Special Collections and University Archives. As a result of this data collection, the Archival History Section will be able to promote the writing of online archival histories of research and academic institutions, including archives and special collections in college and university libraries. Please visit Achival History News for more information.
Did you write a preservation-themed article or book that you are proud of or know someone who did? Nominate yourself or someone else for an awesome Preservation Publication Award.
The deadline for submission is February 28, 2022.
Did you write a preservation-themed article or book that you are proud of or know someone who did? Nominate yourself or someone else for an awesome Preservation Publication Award.
The deadline for submission is February 28, 2022.
Thank you to our excellent candidates for standing in the 2021-2022 Audio and Moving Image Section election. Please take some time to get to know the candidates so you can make an informed choice.
You will be voting for:
One Chair for a one-year term and one Vice Chair/Chair-Elect (or Co-chair), for a two-year term. Ballots will be managed by SAA staff through Survey Monkey; keep an eye on your inbox for when the ballot opens!
Chair: Patrick Midtlyng
Patrick Midtlyng is the Head of Archival...
Event: UnBOXed: LAS Community Exchange
Date/time: Nov 8 @ 12P/3E
Register: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0pdeqhpzkvG9EU99-HFZT5HlrN0IwUe8sm
Bring your UnBOXed Lone Arranger questions to get community input! Join us on November 8 at 12pm Pacific / 3pm Eastern to get to know your LAS Steering Committee and participate in discussions with your LAS colleagues about topics such as the Regional Reps program, professional growth as a Lone Arranger, and time management.
The Privacy and Confidentiality Section is delighted to announce a 2021-22 webinar series, Digital Tools for Privacy and Confidentiality.
To start us off, digital preservationist and software developer Tessa Walsh will present a demo of Bulk Reviewer, an application that supports the identification, review, and removal of sensitive digital files. The demo will be followed by a Q&A session; attendees are welcome to submit questions, or share tips from their own experience with the tool,...
The recording of the 2021 Lone Arrangers Section meeting, held virtually in July, is now available.
Watch the meeting recording.
The SAA Preservation Section congratulates our 2021 electees: Kimberly Hoffman, Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect, and Kat Trammel, Member-at-Large. We were thrilled to have a such a great slate of qualified and enthusiastic candidates. Thank you to everyone who participated!
In case you missed our February Coffee Chat with the SNAP Section "Meet and Greet Preservation Professionals," the recording is now live on YouTube!
Click here for the YouTube link.
Here is the most recent issue of the Museum Archivist Newsletter, Summer 2021!
Contents include:Letters from Chair Sharad Shah and Incoming Chair Katrina O'BrienKatrina O'Brien - Dissolving a Museum and a CollectionJulie Rockwell - Reflections on Graduate Study Research: Born-Digital Collections Access and User Studies in Libraries, Archives and MuseumsInternship Profile - Cassandra Linder at the Ingalls Library & Museum Archives, Cleveland Museum of ArtAnna Rimel - Joseph Cornell Study...
Open Positions
Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect – 3-year term, September 2021 – August 2024Steering Committee Member (2 seats) – 3-year term, September 2021 – August 2024
Candidates
Vice Chair/Chair Elect
Lourdes Johnson
Steering Committee Member (2 seats)
Wendy Guerra
Catie Heitz
Heather Jager
Kendra Meyer
Kathryn Slover
Statements to Voters and Biographies
Vice Chair/Chair Elect
Lourdes Johnson
Greetings! My name is Lourdes Johnson. I am submitting my application to nominate myself as Vice-Chair...
Issues and Advocacy Section 2021 Ballot
Vice Chair/Chair-Elect (vote for one)
Andrea Belair
Biographical Information and Candidate Statement:
At present, I am the Librarian for Archives and Special Collections at Union College, where I have been for three years. Prior to my current position, I was the Archivist at the Office of the President at Yale University for six years. My prior experience in the archival profession as well as outside of it has led me to develop a keen...
Thank you to all of our excellent candidates for standing in the 2021 Encoded Archival Standards (EAS) Section election. The EAS Section has three open positions for the 2021 election and three candidates running unopposed. Please take some time to review each candidate statement below.
You will be voting for:
One Junior Co-chair, for a two-year term, serving in year one as Junior Co-chair and in year two as Senior Co-chair; and
Two Steering Committee members, for two-year terms.
SAA staff...
Congratulations and welcome to our newly-elected Steering Committee Members!Vice Chair - Micaela TerronezNewsletter Editor - Katy SternbergerRegional Representatives Lead - Julie Yamashita.
The results of the 2022 MARS election are in! Our MARS steering committee members for the 2022-2023 cycle are: Cara McCormick (Archives Manager at the Rand Corporation and MARS Chair); Beth Ann Koelsch Women Veterans Historical Project Curate at UNC-Greensboro, and Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect); and Matthew Peek (Associate Director of University of Houston-Clear Lake Archives and Special Collections, and MARS Communication Liaison). Former MARS Secretary Amy Mondt (Associate Director of the Sam...
STHC Section Jr. Co-Chair
Jennifer Langford
Archivist/Special Collections Librarian
University of Tennessee Health Sciences Center Memphis, TN
STHC Section Steering Committee Member 2019; Web Liason
DiAnna Hemsath
McGoogan Library, University of Nebraska Medical Center
Archivist
Junior Co-chair:
Gabrielle Barr Archivist Office of NIH History and Stetten Museum National Institute of Health
Member-at-Large:
Brandon T. Pieczko Digital and Special Collections Librarian Ruth Lilly Medical Library Indiana University School of Medicine
Junior Co-Chair: Brandon Pieczko
Steering Committee Members at Large:Nicole TopichEdith EscobedoTali HanJulia Pope
Early Career Member: Anna Marie Lucas
Elisa Landaverde
Special Collections LGBTQ+ Librarian
Stephen O. Murray and Keelung Hong Special Collections
Michigan State University Libraries
I am the Special Collections LGBTQ+ Librarian at Michigan State University Libraries. In my current position I am involved in almost every step of an archival collection’s lifecycle, this can include initial reach out to potential donors, negotiation, appraisal, processing, finding aid creation, reference, as well as promotion and outreach.
As a...
