Election results are in! Your 2017-18 SAA Research Libraries Section Steering Committee includes:
Lisa Carter, The Ohio State University Libraries: Chair, 7/29/2017 - 8/18/2018
Vakil Smallen, George Washington University: Vice Chair/Chair-Elect, 7/29/2017 - 8/18/2018
Daniel Cavanaugh, University of Virginia’s Claude Moore Health Sciences Library: 7/29/2017 - 8/7/2019
Anton duPlessis, Texas A&M University Libraries: 8/6/2016 - 8/18/2018
Jean Green, Binghamton University Libraries: 7/...
CPS will hold a special election to fill a vacant seat on the CPS Steering Committee. Biographical information and responses from the two candidates are below:
1. Rebecca Denne, Special Projects Archivist, University of South Carolina, South Carolina Political Collections, M.L.S., M.A. Public History
What is your experience with congressional papers?
My experience with political papers began with graduate research in the Mayoral Archives in Indianapolis which houses the collections of local...
You asked and we delivered. The new SNAP Student Chapter Manual is now available under "Resources" on the right-hand sidebar of the SNAP webpage.
You can also access the Student Chapter Manual here.
Hello Government Records Section Members!
Please join your GRS Steering Committee for an informal Meet and Greet via conference call on Monday, September 11, 2017 from 10:00AM (PST) to 11:00AM (PST). We’ll introduce ourselves and our repositories, and discuss any suggestions that you may have for increasing participation in the Government Records Section. Feel free to drop in/out of the conference call at any time; participating for the full hour is not required. Instructions for joining the...
Something important to you missing from this newsletter? Send a submission my way and let me know what you would like to see.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 September newsletter, please send you submission by September 22, 2017.
Who is this Guide for?
You are a human rights activist, a small or grassroots human rights organization, or media collective;
You are creating or collecting digital video to document human rights abuses or issues, and;
You want to make sure that the video documentation you have created or collected can be used for advocacy, as evidence , for education or historical memory – not just now but into the future….
But you are not sure where to begin, or you are stuck on a particular problem.
If...
A researcher of visual history, Sela uncovers records of Palestinian existence and culture hidden in Israeli archives.Rona Sela, a researcher of visual history and a lecturer at Tel Aviv University, first began studying the history and culture of Zionist and Israeli photography more than 20 years ago.
Read more here.
The archive of lesbian musician Gretchen Phillips, co-founder of the trailblazing band Two Nice Girls, sheds light on what it was like to be gay in the 1980s – before the internet helped create communities and at a time when gay lives were rarely visible.Now part of Cornell University Library’s Human Sexuality Collection, the video recordings of Phillips’ shows, reviews and news articles, fan mail and more that Phillips collected over three decades will be available to researchers interested in...
A new Freedom Trail marker honors those who helped break down the doors of segregation in Jackson.
Nine African-American students from Tougaloo College held a "read-in" at the old Jackson Municipal Library on March 27, 1961.
When the all-white library staff told them to leave, they stayed, and when the police did the same, they didn't move.
Read more here, and read a June 2017 American Libraries story about the Tougaloo 9 and library desegregation here.
The Archives of the International Committee of the Red Cross in Geneva has created the new blog CROSS-files! This blog aims at promoting the contents of the rich audiovisual archives, library collections, general archives and what the ICRC calls the “Agency Archives”. This great collection of books, sound recordings, films, videos and photos illustrate and document the activities of the ICRC from the end of the 19th century up to the present day.
These archives and library have been...
In the Holocaust era, countless ordinary people acted in ways that aided the persecution and murder of Jews and other targeted groups within Nazi Germany and across Europe. The Museum’s current special exhibition, Some Were Neighbors: Collaboration & Complicity in the Holocaust, examines one vexing question: what prompted average people to commit extraordinary crimes in support of the Nazi cause? The seminal research of Dr. Christopher Browning, the author of Ordinary Men, and Dr. Wendy...
Writer/activist/educator/poet Walidah Imarisha delivered the opening keynote address at The Liberated Archive: A Forum for Envisioning and Implementing a Community-Based Approach to Archives at ARCHIVES 2017 in Portland, OR. Imarisha discussed the role of a community archives in telling community stories—and making sure that all stories are told.
Listen to her keynote in its entirety here, and read a full transcript here.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement recently asked the National Archives and Record Administration (NARA), which instructs federal agencies on how to maintain records, to approve its timetable for retaining or destroying records related to its detention operations. This may seem like a run-of-the-mill government request for record-keeping efficiency. It isn’t. An entire paper trail for a system rife with human rights and constitutional abuses is at stake.
ICE has asked for permission to begin...
We were lucky enough to have not one, but two writers contribute SAA 2017 coverage to the HRA Section blog. Both posts covered sessions in the Liberated Archives Forum. Jeremy Brett covered the #ArchivesForBlackLives session, which featured the Archives for Black Lives in Philadelphia Movement.
Jennifer Eltringham covered the Dismantling Barriers and Indigenous Sovereignty session. While conversations in this session were to be anonymous, Jennifer deftly summarized the discussion while...
New BAS Education Chair Jennifer Johnson discusses her plans for next year.
The 2017 SAA Business Archives Section (BAS) Annual Business Meeting took place on Friday, July 28, 2017, at the Oregon Convention Center, with about 90 attendees.
Among the highlights:
-Outgoing Chair Jamie Martin (IBM) announced the BAS election results and introduced the new steering committee members: Incoming Vice Chair/Chair Elect Greg McCoy (Procter & Gamble), Incoming Vice Editor...
Power Point slides from the PLASC meeting at SAA17 are available here.
Per the Human Rights Archives Section Rules: “The section shall be led by two co-chairs, one web liaison/newsletter editor, and at most four steering committee members. A co-chair shall be elected annually for a staggered two-year term. The web liaison/newsletter editor shall be elected for a two-year term. The steering committee members shall be elected annually for a one-year term. All officers and steering committee members may serve for an unlimited number of consecutive terms.”
Co-Chairs...
Following the 2017 Preservation Section Business Meeting in Portland, OR, we have begun to compile Handling Guidelines from reading rooms around the country. We hope these will serve as a helpful resource for those institutions looking to write new handling policies, revise existing policies, or create new handouts and guides for their patrons. Check out the new resources at: https://www2.archivists.org/groups/preservation-section/resource-library-handling-guidelines-for-the-reading-room
The 2017 MARS meeting at the annual SAA convention focused quite a bit on the future of the Section and several potential future projects were brought up by presenters and from the floor.
First, the Military Archival Collection Directory now has a rudimentary start on the SAA MARS' microsite: https://www2.archivists.org/groups/military-archives-section/mars-launches-directory-of-military-archival-collections. With time, MARS will grow this list into a dynamic tool for broad use. This project...
Research Libraries SectionCandidates for 2017 election
Vice-Chair/Chair-elect:
Vakil Smallen
Biography: Vakil is the National Education Association Archivist at George Washington University, responsible for processing describing and promoting collections, and providing reference assistance. He primarily works with GW Libraries’ unique collections related to education, including the records of the National Education Association. Additionally, he was part of a project to explore the potential for...
On Tuesday July 25th, members of the SAA Business Archives Section (BAS) were treated to a behind the scenes tour of the Nike Archives in Portland, Oregon. The tour was hosted by Scott Reames (Content Director/Historian) and Rick Shannon (Director), along with the Department of Nike Archives (DNA) staff. Began in 2006, DNA is “Dedicated to collecting, protecting, and proactively leveraging decades of organizational memory and historical assets to Nike’s strategic advantage.” Today the...
The BAS Steering Committee organized the Business Archives Section Colloquium as part of the 2017 Society of American Archivists Conference in Portland, Oregon. This year’s theme was “Finding Inspiration in Your Company History Using Media and Design.”
Eric Chin introduces the team from Wieden+Kennedy.
Following introductions by Past Chair Jamie Martin (IBM) and incoming Chair Eric Chin (NBCUniversal), Thomas Harvey & Britton Taylor of Wieden+Kennedy led a vivid...
The 2017 MARS officer candidates' biographies and statements are in the attached PDF.
Candidate Biographies and Statements
***Voting is NOW open! Members will receive an email from SAA with voting instructions. Voting is open until Friday, August 25th.****
Vice Chair/Chair-Elect
Ricardo L. Punzalan
Assistant Professor of Archives & Digital CurationCollege of Information StudiesUniversity of Maryland, College Park
Bio: Ricardo L. Punzalan is assistant professor of archives and digital curation at the College of Information Studies, affiliate faculty in the Department of...
In order to facilitate greater communications between archivists whose institutions hold collections related to the military and its impact on society, the Military Archives Section is compiling a Directory of Military Archival Collections. This directory is open in any institution, large or small, military or government, academic, public or private which holds military related archival materials. Even if this is not the primary focus of your instituation, all archives holding such materials...
