Here, below, is a listing of the candidates elected to serve the open positions. Thank you to all candidates and for all who voted:
Vice Chair/Chair Elect: Greg McCoy (Procter & Gamble)
Vice Editor: Meredith Torre (Atlanta Housing Authority)
Secretary: Michele McKinnon Fricke (Capital Group)
Member at Large: Lauren Gaylord (Pixar Animation Studios)
Education Chair: Jennifer Johnson (Cargill, Inc.)
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 August newsletter, please send you submission by August 24, 2017.
Last year, the National Archives (NARA) acquired a large number of historically valuable National Security Agency records. But they remain inaccessible to researchers, at least for the time being.
David Langbart of NARA described the situation at a closed meeting of the State Department Historical Advisory Committee late last year. According to recently published minutes of that meeting:
“The [NSA] records consist of approximately 19,000 folders without any real arrangement. These records...
The Schomburg Center’s “Black Power” exhibition traces ten years of the Black Panther movement, looking at the topics, issues, misunderstandings, and people that shaped a global movement.Curated by Dr. Sylviane A. Diouf, this exhibition invites guests to take a closer look at the movement that guided the black consciousness between 1966 and 1976. “Black Power” is part of the Schomburg Center’s “Black Power 50” - a yearlong review and introspective look into the Black Power Movement’s 50th...
Founded in 2003, StoryCorps has grown from operating a single StoryBooth recording studio in New York to managing outposts in Chicago, San Francisco, and Atlanta, with a mobile booth and digital app to collect stories from individuals around the country. The nonprofit was inspired in large part by the work of Studs Terkel, who documented histories of common Americans and advocated for labor unions from the 1960s through the ’90s.
And yet, when a group of employees told management of their...
The 2017 campaign began on February 21 with the third annual One Book, Many Communities Lecture in London, England. Featured speakers included Professor Gilbert Achcar of the University of London’s Centre for Palestine Studies and Khaled Ziada, head of the Palestine Film Foundation.In spring 2017, groups throughout North America, the Middle East and Europe hosted discussion events in libraries, coffee shops, theaters and homes about Ghassan Kanafani’s novella “Returning to Haifa.” Most of the...
On July 13, 2017, Liu Xiaobo, China’s only Nobel Peace Prize winner and its most famous political prisoner died from complications due to liver cancer. He was detained in December 2008 for his participation with “Charter 08”, a manifesto that called for political reform and an end to one-party rule. In June 2017, eight years after his imprisonment, he was diagnosed with terminal liver cancer. The government of China rejected his request for permission to receive medical attention abroad, for...
This symposium featured authors from the Pushing the Margins: Women of Color and Intersectionality in LIS book to discuss thematic issues that pertain to intersectionality, feminist theory, race and ethnicity, and libraries. Participants broke out into smaller groups to have critical discussions based on the themes presented.
Listen to the keynote by Fobazi M. Ettarh here.
In the wake of the US presidential inauguration, millions of people took to the streets for the Women’s March on Washington, DC, and in other cities around the world on January 21, 2017. The Newcomb Archives and Vorhoff Library Special Collections, part of Newcomb College Institute (NCI) of Tulane University in New Orleans, joined archivists across the country to preserve the legacy of those marches.
As other New Orleans repositories were also collecting ephemera from the local and DC...
If you weren't at SAA you might have missed the presentation about the Helen Keller Archive digitization project and the important project to make it more accessible. Check out this post with session highlights at the American Foundation for the Blind blog.
Look out for more SAA content coming up on the Human Rights Archives Section blog!
Welcome new members of the IAAS Steering Committee!
Junior Co-Chair Katharina Hering (National Equal Justice Library)
Member-at-large Mark Edwin Peterson (Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library & Museum)
Hello Section members,
SAA’s Archives Management Section addresses the identification and consideration of management and leadership issues that are important to archivists and archival institutions and brings together archivists from dissimilar institutions who share these interests. On behalf of the Steering Committee I want to encourage all Archives Management Section members in attendance at SAA to join us for our annual meeting on Thursday, August 16 from 4:15-5:30 p.m. in Delaware B...
International Archival Affairs Section (IAAS) and Latin American and Caribbean Cultural Heritage Section (LACCHA) Meeting
Society of American Archivists Annual Meeting
Thursday July 27, 2017 2:00pm - 3:15pm
Oregon BR 203
Welcome by Ryder Kouba, IAAS Senior co-chair, and Ana D. Rodriguez, LACCHA junior co-chair
2:05 pm – Election results for IAAS and LACCHA, Daniel Necas Junior co-chair, and Ana D. Rodriguez, LACCHA junior co-chair
2:10 pm - Announcement by SAA Council Liaison
2:20 pm...
Performing Arts Section Agenda, Friday July 28, 11:15-12:30
Call to Order
Business Meeting (11:15-11:35)
Updates from Council Rep
PAR Updates/Election Announcement
Member Updates
Presentation (11:40-12:05): Tom Clareson, LYRASIS, Project Director of the Performing Arts Readiness Project - Disaster Planning for Performing Arts Collections. Read more about the Performing Arts Readiness Project here: http://performingartsreadiness.org/
Presentation (12:10-12:25): Kate Crowe (Curator of...
The SAA/RBMS Joint Task Force on the Development of Guidelines for Primary Source Literacy is pleased to host its final Open Forum at the Oregon Convention Center on Thursday, July 27th, from 12:15-1:00 PM in room A106. Please join us for an overview of our two-year process of drafting and revising the final version of the Guidelines for Primary Source Literacy, next steps for the Guidelines and an exciting new SAA epublication, Case Studies on Teaching with Primary Sources, and a discussion of...
Wednesday July 26, 2017, 4:00 pm, A105, Oregon Convention Center
Business Meeting (15 minutes)
1. Chair’s Welcome
2. SAA Council Liaison updates
3. Introduction of incoming officers
Adam Mosseri - Vice Chair/Chair Elect
Gavin Do - Steering Committee
Jaycie Vos - Steering Committee
4. Oral History Association Task Force
Section Program (45 minutes)
Following the business meeting, Katrina Vandeven with the Women’s March on Washington Archives Project, Sarah Loose of Amamantar y...
Dear Archives Management Section Members:
The results of the Section election are in and I am pleased to announce the leadership roster for 2018-2019. Newly elected/re-elected members of the Steering Committee appear in bold. Members will assume their responsibilities following the Section’s annual meeting on Thursday, August 16 from 4:15-5:30 p.m. in Delaware B, [Lobby Level] of the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel.
Chair: David Benjamin, University of Central Florida
Vice-chair/Chair elect: ...
Based on the election results, appointments, and the usual rotation of the chairs, here is the STHC Steering Committee membership that will be effective after the conclusion of our meeting on 27 July 2017:
Polina Ilieva - Senior Co-Chair
Eleanor (Eli) Brown - Junior Co-Chair
Todd Kosmerick - Immediate Past Chair
Gabrielle Barr - Newsletter Editor
Rebekah Kim - Web Liaison
The At-Large Steering Committee members are
Bethany Anderson
Kimberly Anderson
Andrew Lippert
Lorraine Richards...
The Recorded Sound Section's annual meeting will be held in Portland on Wednesday, July 26th, 2:30-3:45, RM. B11. Our guest speaker this year will be copyright expert, Peter Hirtle.
Peter Hirtle is an Affiliate Fellow of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University. Until his retirement from Cornell in 2015, he served as Senior Policy Advisor to the Cornell University Library with a special mandate to address intellectual property issues. Previously at Cornell, ...
The agendas for the BAS Colloquium & Section Meeting at the 2017 SAA Conference are now available! We invite you to participate in our colloquium, scheduled for Wednesday afternoon (7/26) focused on "Finding Inspiration in Your Company History Using Media and Design," as well as our section meeting on Friday afternoon (7/28), providing updates on all our projects this year & announcing the election results. We look forward to seeing everyone in Portland.
SAA 2017 Oral History Section Session Description - Wednesday, July 26, 4:00-5:15 pm Update from OHS Chair-Elect Amanda PellerinThis year’s Oral History Section Session, as in years past, will be full of informative and inspiring stories on current projects and future practices for the oral history discipline. Things will kick off with a presentation of the newly-elected section members. Steven Sielaff and Jaycie Vos from the Oral History Association Task Force will discuss an exciting...
Note from the ChairGreetings, everyone! This year’s annual meeting in Portland is shaping up to be exciting, with wonderful speakers, sessions, and a range of other opportunities made possible largely by its location. I wanted to take a few moments to highlight some of the upcoming events that might be of interest to members of this section, starting with our own business meeting. While our incoming chair Amanda Pellerin has provided details on our speakers elsewhere in this newsletter, please...
Digitizing Oral History Projects at the University Archives, Texas State UniversityLindsey D. Waldenberg, Graduate Assistant, Texas State University With more than one hundred years’ worth of history to process and preserve, the University Archives (established 2006) at Texas State University has accomplished much in its eleven years of operation. One of the Archives’ most recent projects focuses on digitizing its oral history collections. Consisting of over two hundred interviews that...
Documenting Denver Activism Archives Project Undertakes a New Method of Oral HistoryKatrina Vandeven, Director, Documenting Denver Activism Archives Project Following the 2016 election, Denver, Colorado has experienced a new wave of grassroots, activist activity. Citizens who had previously not interacted with the state are taking new measures to speak to their local and national governments, often en masse, in marches and rallies with attendance in the hundreds to tens of thousands....
American Folklife Center Launches Occupational Folklife Project OnlineKelly Revak, Processing Archivist, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress The American Folklife Center is pleased to announce the online launch of the Occupational Folklife Project (OFP), a major oral history initiative of the American Folklife Center (AFC) at the Library of Congress documenting the diverse culture of contemporary American workers. The first installment features “Working the Port of Houston,” a...
