Audio, Film and Video Preservation and Access at the Oklahoma Historical Society JA Pryse, Director of Digital Archives, and Rachel Mosman, Head Photo Archivist and Media Specialist, Oklahoma Historical Society The Oklahoma Historical Society (OHS) Research Division is comprised of numerous departments, each responsible for unique formats of archival materials. It is the main goal of the Digital Archives Division to identify and prioritize the methodical reformatting of all...
Online Portal for Oklahoma Native Art of the Oklahoma Oral History Research Program, Oklahoma State University LibrarySarah Milligan, Head, Oklahoma Oral History Research Program and Associate Professor, Oklahoma State University Library The Oklahoma Native Artist oral history project, a project of the Oklahoma Oral History Research Program (OOHRP) at the Oklahoma State University Library since 2010, is uniquely stand-alone. It is not tied to a particular art project, exhibition, or collection...
The 2017 Chapter Oral History Project, Institute of the Sister of Mercy of the Americas Maureen Skorupa Keyes, Sisters of Mercy Mid-Atlantic Community Archives, Merion, PA The Sisters of Mercy Archives Team, consisting of archivists from the Mercy Heritage Center, located in Belmont, North Carolina, and community archivists from the Mid-Atlantic Community in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and the West-Midwest Community in Omaha, Nebraska, has initiated the 2017 Chapter Oral...
The Founders of American Sign Language Interpreters and Interpreter Educators
Carolyn Ball, Executive Director, VRS Interpreting Institute (VRSII)
On June 16, 1964 the Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf (RID) was founded in Muncie, Indiana at Ball State College. The establishment of RID was not planned, nor was it expected. After RID was established, the small membership was scattered across the country and there were very few contacts made between members, apart from the occasional...
The Baylor University Institute for Oral History announces its upcoming online introductory oral history workshop available on two consecutive Wednesday mornings, February 7 and 14, 2018. The six-hour, interactive training attracts newcomers to oral history from around the world. Baylor’s award-winning oral historians equip participants to get started using oral history methodology through instruction on project design, ethical and legal considerations, recording equipment, interviewing...
Baylor University Institute for Oral History Announces Launch of "Survivors of Genocide" Project Website
Baylor University Institute for Oral History
The Baylor University Institute for Oral History (BUIOH) is proud to announce the launch of its newest project website, "Survivors of Genocide." From May 2015 through October 2016, the Institute conducted fourteen oral histories with survivors of the genocides in Cambodia, Rwanda/Burundi, Bosnia, and Darfur. This work was contracted through a...
Attached is the agenda for the LAGAS section meeting on Wednesday, July 26th.
We look forward to seeing you all at SAA!
The 2017 issue of Archival Elements contains the following articles:
Message from the Co-chairs
Science, Technology, and Health Care Related Sessions in Portland
Unsung Heroes of STEM and Medicine
News from Our Members
Asking the Archivists
Brief Submissions
Short Contributions
Feature Articles
About the Authors
Steering Committee Members
PDFs of all the newsletters are here.
The business meeting portion of the Military Archives Section's gathering will focus on the issues of elections, the annual staff ride, the military archival directory, and the future of the Section.
After that, we'll have two presentations: about military classification and how to use your collections to embrace World War I during its centennial year.
1. Classification: what it is, the impact of over-classification, and what MAS can do to contribute to SAA's overall objective of greater...
Pre-Revolutionary Era
Gelfand, Aleksandr. “As Vast as the Sea”: An Overview of Archives and the Archival Profession in Russia from the Time of Ivan the Terrible to World War I.” American Archivist 79, no. 2 (Fall–Winter 2016): 230-253. Available with subscription or SAA membership: https://doi.org/10.17723/0360-9081-79.2.230
Soviet Era
Epstein, Fritz T. "Archives Administration in the Soviet Union." American Archivist 20, no. 2 (Apr 1957): 131-45. Freely available at: http://americanarchivist...
Join the Electronic Records Section and the Records Management Section for a panel on managing email with Chris Prom (Task Force on Technical Approaches to Email Archives), Sarah Demb (Harvard University’s approach to email appraisal), and Camille Tyndall Watson (Transforming Online Mail with Embedded Semantics).
We will be meeting Wednesday, July 26 from 4:00pm - 5:15pm.
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 July newsletter, please send you submission July 26, 2017.
If you happen to be attending SAA and would be interested in summarizing a session, please drop me an email at hilary.h.barlow@gmail.com. The HRA blog has two conference posts so far, one about a session on Indigenous records and one about a disability rights collection. Your post can be a simple summary of the issues discussed, or you can get a little opinionated and say what you thought was most productive about the session or not as productive.
I would love to see one or more of these...
Residents and survivors of a West Philadelphia bombing that killed 11 people, including five children, in 1985 gathered near Cobbs Creek Parkway and Osage Avenue Saturday afternoon to commemorate the solemn occasion.
The bombing by Pennsylvania State Police against members of the MOVE activist group destroyed 61 homes at the time, and continues to define a marginalized section of the city.
Those who gathered for the unveiling of a temporary marker called for greater social justice and a demand...
These award-winning images are among 70 photographs chosen from almost 1,000 submissions received from across Canada for an exhibition featuring widely diverse expressions of human rights issues. Points of View opened June 23 at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights (CMHR) and runs until February 4, 2018. It includes 3D tactile versions of the five award-winning photographs, enabling visitors who are blind to “see” the art through their fingertips. Each photo in the exhibition is accompanied by...
The State Department released a long-awaited “retrospective” volume of declassified U.S. government documents on the 1953 coup in Iran. The volume includes fascinating details on Iranian, American and British planning and implementation of the covert operation, as well as information about U.S. contacts with key figures such as Ayatollah Abol-Ghasem Kashani, and insights into U.S. concerns about the growing influence of the communist Tudeh Party.
The publication is the culmination of decades...
More than 40 photographs taken by Willman are now on exhibit in Mandela: The Journey to Ubuntu at the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center. It takes visitors on a journey through Mandela’s life and South Africa’s route to racial equality. Willman came to Cincinnati for the exhibit’s recent installation.
The photographic journey begins in Mandela’s birthplace in the village of Mvezo and follows him to the cities of Johannesburg and Pretoria, where Mandela and other anti-apartheid...
Democracy Now! recently reported that there might be an effort to bury or even destroy full, non-censored, confidential copies of the notorious 2014 torture report. Some of you may remember that a shorter, redacted version was released to the public, but the longer original has never been released.
I think this could be a great subject for a post on the Human Rights Archives Section blog. I'd like to see a post explore the retention schedule for a document like the torture report that goes...
If you'll be in Portland, mark you calendars! The Human Rights Archives Section meeting will be on July 27 from 2 to 3:15 pm. Sign in and save the meeting to your schedule. We'll see you there!
In the latest post at the HRA Section blog, Bailey E. Hoffner covers a session at the Society of Southwest Archivists conference about disability records. Disability rights are an often overlooked aspect of human rights and I'm thrilled to publish this post highlighting the Texas Disability Rights Collection at the University of Texas Arlington. Bailey also covers some basics of disability sensitivity training.
Read the post here.
Find below an announcement from Lauren Gaylord, SNAP’s Blog Coordinator:
The SAA Annual Meeting is quickly approaching! If you’re one of the lucky ones able to go, please consider summarizing a session for your #SAALeftBehind colleagues who can’t attend this year. Knowledge is power and sharing is caring!
We’ve marked sessions that are of particular interest to SNAP members, but the blog team will happily accept summaries for any sessions, events, section meetings, and other conference...
Vote now in the 2017 SNAP elections! Check your inbox (and spam folders) for your unique email link to the online ballot. Voting for the new SNAP officers and Steering Committee members will close on July 12, 2017.
The approved revisions are minor. The Council has agreed upon measures to call all sections and roundtables Sections; to call each Section's unique procedures Standing Rules; to designate Section IX. Sections of the SAA Governance Manual as the SAA Section ByLaws, that is, the basic procedures that apply to all Sections; and to include updated language about those procedures in the Governance, Elections, and Amendments sections of each Section's Standing Rules.
The proposed revisions...
Section Members:
By now you should have received an email invitation to cast your ballot in the Archives Management Section election. If you don’t see one, please check you spam/junk folder as sometimes emails from SurveyMonkey will end up there.
Also, each voter is given a unique link to the ballot, so please do not forward the link to others.
Here is the link to the candidate statements: https://www2.archivists.org/groups/archives-management-section/archives-management-section-2017-election...
