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...
This year we are electing one Vice Chair/Chair Elect and three Steering Committee members. Electronic ballots will be sent to members in July. The Vice Chair/Chair Elect serves a two-year term. Year 1: Serves as Vice Chair and participates as a member of the Steering Committee. Year 2: Serves as Chair of the Roundtable.
Steering Committee members may be appointed or elected, each for a one-year term that is renewable for up to three consecutive years at the discretion of the incoming Chair.
Meet our wonderful slate of candidates for the 2017 WCS election. The two individuals receiving the most votes will serve as co-Vice Chairs of the roundtable in 2017-2018 and co-Chairs of the roundtable in 2018-2019.
Annalise Berdini
Biography
Annalise Berdini is the Digital Archivist at UC San Diego Library Special Collections and Archives. Previously, she has worked as a Manuscripts/Archives Processor for UCSD Special Collections and Archives, and at various institutions in Philadelphia as...
New LEADERS of the Archival History Section and the STANDING RULES REFERENDUM will be decided, starting Monday June 26 and ending July 10. You'll receive a unique ballot from SurveyMonkey. Please do not share the link with others. In case you do not receive your ballot next week, please check your spam box and filter settings. If you have trouble receiving or casting a ballot, please email Felicia Owens.
According to the Governance Manual, all those who are active section members as of June...
Referendum Summary
In addition to voting for chair-elect and steering committee candidates, section members will be asked to approve revised Standing Rules (previously known as By-Laws; more about that change below) for the College and University Archives Section as part of this year's election process. The referendum will appear on the ballot members receive via SurveyMonkey sometime between June 26 and 28.
Wondering what changes you'll be voting for? A marked-up copy of the old By-Laws is...
Hannah Jellen
Hannah Jellen is the Interim Manuscripts Curator at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library (ALPLM) in Springfield, Illinois. She is a graduate of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) where she received her BM in Musicology and her MSLIS. She is returning to UIUC in August of 2017 to pursue an MM in Musicology where she will study American popular and folk music. Prior to her position at ALPLM, Hannah worked at the Sousa Archives and Center for American Music...
The SAA-ACRL/RBMS Joint Task Force on the Development of Standardized Statistical Measures for Public Services in Archival Repositories and Special Collections Libraries submitted the final draft version of the standard to the RBMS Executive Committee and SAA Standards Committee on June 9, 2017 for review and eventual approval. The submission will be reviewed by ACRL-RBMS and SAA over the coming months. The task force recognizes that while this review is underway, archivists and special...
