Montana Historical Society Receives Grant to Capture Oral Histories on State’s Brewing Industry Anneliese Warhank, Archivist and Oral Historian, Montana Historical SocietyThe Montana Historical Society Research Center has received a $4,500 grant from Humanities Montana to conduct a series of oral history interviews designed to begin capturing the history of modern craft brewing and breweries in Montana. Anneliese Warhank, Certified Archivist and Oral Historian for MHS, will coordinate...
A Century of Women in Congress
Office of the House Historian, U.S. House of Representatives
On November 7, 1916, Jeannette Rankin of Montana became the first woman elected to Congress. To commemorate the centennial of Rankin’s election to the House of Representatives and her April 1917 swearing-in, the Office of the House Historian conducted interviews with former women Representatives and staff to create A Century of Women in Congress, an ongoing web-based oral history project that examines...
Taking Flight in Oral History - Lessons Learned from Conducting the Flying Voices Oral History ProjectAbra Schnur, MLS Candidate, Project Director of the Flying Voices Oral History Project. The Flying Voices Oral History Project: In-flight and Ground Experiences of Braniff International Airways captures experiences and perspectives from former employees of the North Texas-based airline. Braniff shaped the aviation industry of the 1960s. It was the first major U.S. airline to...
Archives Alive: Democratizing Public Library Archives through Oral HistoryDiantha Dow Schull, DDSchull AssociatesArchivists and special collections librarians across the country are employing myriad approaches to community documentation, ranging from crowdsourcing and scanning events to social archives, digital memory projects and documentary films. Among these approaches, oral history is especially effective, enabling archivists to animate and expand local history collections....
Note from the Chair
Happy 2017 to everyone! Our new year brings with it a new newsletter editor, and I would like to start by welcoming and thanking Melissa Lindberg, who volunteered to take over the reins of Dialogue. We are all looking forward to working with her and getting out the news on section and member activities.
On a more somber note, the new year has also brought with it fresh concerns, including the potential impacts of recent Executive Orders. As oral historians and archivists, we...
The Archival History Section seeks an editor--or two!--to help relaunch a newsletter for AHS members and other interested parties.
Founded in 1986 as the Archival History Roundtable, the AHS advocates for and promotes an understanding of the history of the American archival profession. Inspired by the work of other SAA sections (see, for example, the Lone Arrangers Quarterly Newsletter, https://lonearrangers.wordpress.com/about/), this digital newsletter will function as a dynamic space to keep...
The results of the special election are in: we are pleased to welcome Adriana Flores as the new SNAP committee Secretary! We would like to thank the candidates and all those who voted for their participation.
Something important to you missing from this newsletter? Send a submission my way and let me know what you would like to see. I did not get any newsletter submissions last month (shocking, I know) but you can remedy that!
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...
The human rights archives blog is making a comeback and we need your contributions! Is there an issue that really irks you and you have something to say? Is there something in the news that can benefit from an archival perspective? Did you work on an incredible project related to archives and human rights and you want to share you insights?
Send blog post pitches to hilary.h.barlow@gmail.com. Include a short summary of your idea and why you're the best person to write it. Publication...
Chapter 1: How Khmer Rouge Came to Power
With the support of the European Union and Rei Foundation Limited, Bophana Center is currently developing a smart-device application for learning Khmer Rouge history. In line with this project, Bophana Center launches a series of thematic panel discussions about Khmer Rouge history and its education with special guests.
The first edition will be dedicated to the theme of "How the Khmer Rouge came to power" which constitutes the first chapter of...
Librarians and Archivists with Palestine invites you to join our annual international reading campaign, One Book, Many Communities held in April 2017, in concurrence with National Reading Week in Palestine. This year’s reading is “Returning to Haifa” by Ghassan Kanafani, a novella that can be found in the collection Palestine’s Children: Returning to Haifa and Other Stories.
This project draws inspiration from the “one book, one town" idea, wherein people in local communities come...
It is amazing what you can discover in the archives – sometimes a piece of history itself! In 2014, History Associates archivist Valerie Vanden Bossche was working to organize and preserve the archives of the Mary McLeod Bethune Council House National Historic Site in Washington, D.C. The Council House was the first headquarters of the National Council of Negro Women (NCNW), founded by Bethune and led by Civil Rights icon Dorothy I. Height. In this house, the NCNW spearheaded strategies...
The US Holocaust Museum, located in Washington, D.C., has issued a statement yesterday clearly defining the Holocaust so as to curtail any further confusion following President Trump’s vague remarks—which did not mention Jews or Nazi anti-semitism—on International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
“The Holocaust was the systematic, state-sponsored murder of six million Jews by Nazi Germany and its collaborators … Nazi ideology cast the world as a racial struggle, and the singular focus on the...
On January 15, a group of archivists released a letter to members of our profession regarding the Trump administration and potential abuses of information technology. They call themselves the Concerned Archivists and their statement reads in part:
President-elect Donald Trump has made a long series of statements and proposed policies at odds with our Constitution, our history, our system of law, and our international human rights obligations, and which are a direct affront and threat to...
Proposals for SAA-Archival History Section Publication Infrastructure (01.11.2017)
Proposed by Eric Stoykovich, Chair, AHS
Considered at January Phone Conference, January 19, 2017
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Based on recommendations of the Archival History Section Publications Working Group, the Chair proposes that the Archival History Section move forward with the creation of an Archival History Newsletter.
If this option is approved, the following sub-proposal would then be considered:
a)
Based on...
Volume 31, No. 2: Winter 2017
CALM seeks participants from across LAMs who will contribute to a discussion about how well we are doing (or not doing) on the various fronts of employment, continuing education, collection development, descriptive practices, etc. We seek participants with different perspectives - from those new to the profession to experienced professionals and anyone in between. This panel will address what we are doing well and what we can do better in order for LAMs to become more inclusive environments...
Comments Sought
Draft version 2 of “Standardized Statistical Measures and Metrics for Public Services in Archival Repositories and Special Collections Libraries” is now open for comment through Friday, February 17, 2017.
The proposed standard is available here on the SAA website or a PDF of the document can also be downloaded below. Provide your comments on any aspect of the proposed standard by commenting on individual pages of the document as presented here on the SAA website. You do not...
SNAP RT 2017 Special Ballot
Due to a resignation, SNAP is holding an election for the vacant secretary position. The new secretary's term will start immediately and run through the Annual Meeting in July 2017. Please find below the candidates' statements.
Secretary Candidates
Hannah Jellen
Candidate statement: My name is Hannah Jellen and I am both a student and a new professional. I have been a member of SAA for two years. I expect to graduate with my MSLIS this coming May from the...
The SAA-ACRL/RBMS Joint Task Force on the Development of Standardized Holdings Counts and Measures for Archival Repositories and Special Collections Libraries is pleased to invite comments on its proposed “Level 1 Count” for quantifying and sharing information about the holdings of archival repositories and special collections libraries. The Guidelines are available here.
Comments are due on or before Friday, 3 March 2017. Please direct comments to the Task Force co-chairs:
Martha O’Hara...
Keep up-to-date on what labor archives are doing across the country by "liking" the Labor Archives Section Facebook page! Visit the page and click the like button to receive updates in your feed.
Please send your news to Conor Casey or Meghan Courtney to have items added.
After some conversations on the listserv, our web home here as part of the SAA main site has gotten a refresh. Under the "Quick Links" menu to the right, you can access Solo, view our leadership and current work under "Governance" and get the links to our Facebook, LinkedIn, and listserv presence under "Connecting Online."
The Resources menu has also been updated, with new and updated information available in the Outreach, Membership, and Processing and Preservation pages.
If you have a...
The overwhelming response from a communications survey in 2016 was that people enjoyed the newsletter format to get news and information about other lone arrangers. After a lot of work and deliberation, we are so pleased to continue offering this publication. We expect Solo to be a mixture of solicited content, news from the Council and other advocacy groups, as well as quarterly highlights of the most interesting or fruitful conversations from the listserv and the knowledge that was gained...
The Archives Association of Ontario (AAO) is pleased to share the first of two pages aimed at supporting the Truth and Reconciliation process and improving access to Indigenous focused archival and cultural resources. Toward Truth and Reconciliation (http://aao-archivists.ca/truth-and-reconciliation) is a dedicated page aimed at assisting Ontario's archival community to navigate the path toward the decolonisation and Indigenization of our practice. The page consists of free and openly...
Operation Condor, the trans-border, multinational effort by Southern Cone secret police services to track down and “liquidate” opponents of their regimes in the 1970s, targeted officials of Amnesty International as well as other human rights groups, and planned overseas missions in Paris and London, according to a comprehensive CIA report on Condor operations just released by the Obama administration. “The basic mission of Condor teams to be sent overseas,” according to the CIA, was...
