Dear Colleagues,
The AES is looking for folks willing to run for the following positions:
Chair (one year term)
Vice-chair/Chair-elect (two year term)
Steering Committee (2 year term)
If interested, please submit a brief biography and candidate statement (1-2 paragraphs each) describing your interest in serving by June 15. You can submit your interest, along with any questions, to poole.alex@gmail.com.
Sincerely,
Alex Poole
Vice Chair/Chair Elect Candidates
Sarah Woods, El Pomar Foundation
Biography:
Sarah Woods received her MLS with a specialization in Archives & Records Management from Indiana University, Bloomington in 2018. She currently works as Curator of Historic Properties & Archives at El Pomar Foundation in Colorado Springs, CO. Before coming to El Pomar, Sarah worked at Wylie House Museum and interned in the archives at NASA Langley Research Center and United States Olympic & Paralympic...
We wish to thank all of our candidates in the 2020 Student and New Archival Professional Section election. Please review each candidate statement below prior to casting your vote for the following positions:
Vice Chair/Chair-Elect (1 position: 1 year term, followed by 1 year as chair)
Secretary (1 position: 1 year term)
Steering Committee Member (3 positions: 1 year term)
More information about ballots will be sent via email to Section members at a later date.
Vice Chair/Chair-Elect
The...
Are you interested in privacy issues within archives? Do you have a passion for exploring how restrictions impact donor relations, researchers’ experiences, and archivists’ work? Do you want to take a leadership role within the archival profession?
Come join the P & C team! The Society of American Archivists’ (SAA) Privacy & Confidentiality Section is currently seeking nominations for vice chair and three steering committee members. All are encouraged to apply, including students and...
Help shape the future of the Society of American Archivists (SAA) Metadata and Digital Object Section (MDOS) by joining the Steering Committee. Service on the MDOS Steering Committee is a manageable time commitment that offers you valuable experience as you contribute to our profession by fostering discussion, education, and collaboration among archivists interested in digitization, digital archival objects, and the metadata that enables their access, management, and preservation.
The MDOS...
The Metadata and Digital Object Section (MDOS) seeks an Early-Career Member volunteer to serve on the Steering Committee for one year to gain valuable leadership experience and mentorship. Students and new professionals are encouraged to apply. Members of the Steering Committee will work closely with the Early-Career Member to develop a mission-focused, attainable project designed to help meet their career goals and introduce them to professional service.
The successful applicant is expected to...
Dear DSGS Members,
The Diverse Sexuality and Gender Section is seeking nominations for section co-chair with a two-year commitment spanning 2020 to 2022. Please consider nominating yourself or a colleague. We value our community and encourage candidates from diverse backgrounds, institutions, professional settings, and experiences. The only requirement for candidacy is current membership in DSGS.
The incoming co-chair will work with DSGS' 2019-2021 co-chair, Alana Varner, to organize...
Please send any nominations by Saturday, June 13th! Self-nominations are encouraged!
Are you seeking an opportunity to expand your network and get further involved in the oral history community? If so, consider running for an open position on the Steering Committee.
Benefits of providing your time and expertise to the Steering Committee include:
Networking with engaged colleagues.
Cultivating leadership skills in a real-world setting.
Driving trends in the field.
Gaining service...
The P&C Steering Committee is pleased to announce that the inaugural recipient of the 2020 Privacy and Confidentiality Award is Itza Carbajal!
Itza is the Latin American Metadata Librarian at the University of Texas at Austin. Her project delves into the significance of empathetics donor relations and the impacton privacy within a collection. To read about her exciting project, visit the P&C Section blog. Congratulations to Itza!
by Greg McCoy, Immediate Past Chair
As stated at the 2019 Annual Section Meeting, the section’s Standing Rules are in need of updating to reflect the changes in the roles and responsibilities of Section officers, to reflect changes in SAA guidelines, and other small changes. None of these fundamentally alter or change the Section’s overall mission or objectives, and the majority of changes are in the sections related to Officers, Committees, and Elections. Changes are viewable in the documents...
This timely webinar addressed the dynamics of recording remote interviews. The webinar covered the legal and ethical considerations and implications of oral histories conducted via distance interviewing, aspects of interviewing in a distance environment, and best pratices for recording archival-quality distance interviews.
This webinar was conducted by faculty from Baylor University Institute for Oral History and was supported by the Oral History Association. The full recording of the webinar ...
The Students and New Archives Professionals (SNAP) Section is seeking nominations for a Vice Chair/Chair-Elect, Secretary, and three At-Large positions. To nominate yourself or someone else, please complete our form.
Serving in a leadership role on the Section is a wonderful way to become more involved with SNAP and SAA and get to know other archivists. Our proposed SNAP bylaws require that to ensure adequate student representation in SNAP leadership, at least two candidates on the slate must...
Jeremy Linden gave a special extended Preservation Week webinar on May 8th, 2 PM E.S.T. (previously scheduled for May 1st)
The last decade has seen a dramatic increase in the advent of sustainable practices throughout the cultural heritage community, ranging from redefined standards and best practices to broadened discussions and understanding of what sustainability means in the context of collecting organizations including archives, museums, and libraries. This webinar will:
· Outline...
The Nominating Committee for the Acquisitions & Appraisal Section is seeking individuals interested in acquisitions and appraisal for the following three positions (see below for duties):
Vice Chair/Chair Elect
Steering Committee At-Large Member (2 positions available)
Candidates must be members of SAA and this Section at the time of nomination. We encourage candidates of all experience levels and from various types of institutions. Consider nominating yourself or a colleague! Please...
Webinar from March 26, 2020
Authors Among Us: A Conversation with Christina Zamon, Rachael Woody, and Margot Note An hour-long conversation between three archivists about their forays into writing and publishing. Christina Zamon, Rachael Woody, and Margot Note each discuss their impetuses for publishing works on archival topics, such as lone arranging, grant writing, and family archives.
SAA Students and New Archives Professionals (SNAP) Section hosted an "Ask Me Anything" web event on Monday, February 24, 2020, with past SAA Nominating Committee members.
Our panel consists of former SAA Nominating Committee members who will be on hand to explain how the Nominating Committee process works. This event, for those newer to SAA, or those who may just need a refresher, aims to demystify how the Nominating Committee works as well as to emphasize the importance of voting in SAA...
StoryCorps is an American nonprofit founded in 2003 by David Isay with a mission to preserve and share the stories of people from all backgrounds. Modeled after the oral history projects conducted by the WPA in the 1930’s, the organization places recording booths and facilitators in accessible spaces to enable anyone to record their story. Among its numerous projects, StoryCorps has permanent recording booths in Chicago, NYC and Atlanta, a mobile booth that travels the U.S. in a retrofitted...
Join us on Wednesday, April 29th 2020 for #PresTC2020, a Preservation Week Twitter Conference hosted by the Society of American Archivists Preservation Section. This free and inclusive conference on Twitter will present a series of lightning talks that we hope will be of interest to librarians, archivists, and anyone who may care about preserving cultural heritage.
Each speaker will have 10 minutes to present their talk, and then take questions from you, the audience. Of course, this is...
With the publication of Frank Boles’ article “To Everything There Is a Season” in the Fall/Winter 2019 edition of American Archivist (sections of the issue are available online, print edition forthcoming in March 2020), the Students and New Archives Professionals (SNAP) section wishes to bring up some concerns regarding both the initial peer review process the article underwent, as well as the larger question of whose voices American Archivist chooses to uplift.
While we do respectfully...
"The Basics of Branding" will be led by Denver-based artist and designer Amy Ventura of Daring Luna, the design and branding firm she recently launched to help women entrepreneurs (though her tips and knowledge will apply to business people of any gender - I swear!) Amy will discuss the essential components of thoughtful branding to attract the right clients. Please mark your calendars for: "Basics of Branding" Wednesday, January 29, 2020 12:00 PM CST
Link to webinar
Privacy and Confidentiality Award
The Privacy and Confidentiality (P&C) Section Committee is pleased to announce the establishment of an annual Privacy and Confidentiality Award. The award is intended to encourage engagement in privacy and confidentiality issues related to archives and will recognize individuals, groups, and organizations that advance the professional understanding of and practical approaches to such issues. The following are types of works and activities that may be...
We are calling on our members to share any resources they think should be included. We've created a Submission Form where you can send us your favorite website, book, blog, article, or any other resource that helps you with your work with design records. We would like to cover the following categories:
Acquisition, Donor, Deed of Gift • Processing and Description • Preservation and Conservation (analog and digital) • Storage (analog and digital) • Reference, Outreach, User Instruction •...
