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Slate for the 2017 Preservation Section Election
Vice-Chair/Chair Elect
We have 1 candidate for 1 position.
Eve Neiger
Member-At-Large
We have 3 candidates for 1 position.
Fletcher Durant
Summer Espinoza
Rhonda Rhinehart
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Candidates for Vice Chair/Chair Elect
Lauren Algee
Biographical Statement
I have been Digital Curation Librarian for DC Public Libraries Special Collections since 2013, where I manage creation, preservation, and access for digital local history collections. I proposed and supervised the National Digital Stewardship Residency project that created the DCPL Memory Lab, a public digitization preservation lab and resource and am now part of the team bringing the Memory Lab model to other public...
SAA Recorded Sound Section 2017/2018 Elections
Nominee Bios and Statements
Vice Chair/Chair Elect
Sarah Cunningham: Sarah Cunningham is the Audiovisual Archivist at the LBJ Presidential Library branch of the National Archives (2003 – present) and is on the faculty at the Graduate School of Information at the University of Texas at Austin. She teaches the Introductory and Advanced classes in Audio Preservation.
Cunningham’s work revolves around digitization projects, the preservation and...
Vacant Position
Chair-Elect: Three-year term - first year Chair-elect, second year as Chair, and third year as immediate past Chair
The main responsibilities of the vacant position are providing leadership & direction for the Security Section. This includes, but is not limited to, planning the annual meeting, holding additional meetings as needed to evaluate activities/direction of section, sending relevant announcements to the section via the listserv, and updating the section's blog and...
Steering Committee
Maria Isabel Molestina-Kurlat, Morgan Library and Museum
Bio:
Maria Isabel Molestina-Kurlat is the Reader Services Librarian in the Sherman Fairchild Reading Room of The Morgan Library & Museum. She has been working in libraries since 2001 and began working with special collections of rare books, manuscripts, and archives in 2007. Her focus is on provenance research of 20th century works of art. As part of her core responsibilities, her daily work involves researching...
Dear Labor Archives Section Colleagues,
It's the time of year when we send out the call for nominees to fill the staggered, two-year term as Labor Archives Roundtable co-chair. This term will be for 2017-2019, and will begin in August.
If we have more than one candidate, we have the option of holding an election. If there is only one nominee, that person will be appointed to the position.
If you have questions about the specifics of the work we do, feel free to contact us off-list....
Three candidates were nominated for the ARCS vice-chair/chair-elect. Four candidates were nominated for the ARCS steering committee member-at-large (one vacancy). Election ballots will open at the beginning of July 2017. Read more about the candidates here.
Candidates for Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect
Taffey Hall
Taffey Hall serves as director of the Southern Baptist Historical Library and Archives in Nashville, Tennessee. She was archivist for the SBHLA from May 2003 through July 2016 and began...
Co-chair Candidates
Dallas Pillen
Archivist for Metadata and Digital Projects, Bentley Historical Library
Biographical Statement
Dallas Pillen is the Archivist for Metadata and Digital Projects at the Bentley Historical Library, where he has worked extensively on the Bentley's ArchivesSpace implementation, including migrating legacy metadata, establishing new descriptive guidelines and workflows, training staff, and developing local ArchivesSpace plugins. Dallas also oversees the Bentley's web...
Thank you to all of our excellent candidates for standing in the 2017 RAO Election. Please take some time to review their candidate statements and get to know them so you can make an informed choice. You will be voting for two Steering Committee Members, for two year terms, and one Vice Chair/Chair-elect, for a three year term. We are also voting on an edit to our bylaws, which is highlighted and underlined in the attached document. It reflects the need to for a more robust communication...
Please find below the election statements for candidates to the SNAP positions of Vice Chair/Chair Elect, Secretary, and Steering Committee members.
Vice Chair/Chair Elect:
Laura Bell
Laura Bell is a high achieving, enthusiastic Archives and Records Management student with experience in archives and libraries before her decision to pursue her MLS at Indiana University. Laura will be entering her second year at IU next fall, and has been selected for a funded internship at Smithsonian...
Please read the biographies and statements of interest for the 2017 Records Management Steering Committee candidates: http://www2.archivists.org/groups/records-management-section/2017-candidates-for-records-management-section-steering-committee
The nominee for Vice Chair of the Local Government Records Section is Blake Relle, of Louisiana State Archives.
Blake received his Master’s Degree in Library and Information Science with a concentration in archive management from LSU in 2013. Currently, he serves as an Archives Specialist at the Louisiana State Archives where he fulfills requests for materials made by the public as well as state agencies. Also, in this position, he processes and creates a DACS compliant finding aid for each...
VICE CHAIR/CHAIR-ELECT (vote for one)
Alexander H. Poole (Drexel University)
STEERING COMMITTEE (listed in alphabetical order; vote for three)
Michael Bullington (McDonald's Corporation)
Adam Mosseri (Kohler Corporation)
Ashley D. Stevens (Texas State Library and Archives Commission)
Ciaran B. Trace (University of Texas at Austin)
Nominations for Co-Chair (1 open position)
Elizabeth Dinschel
Danielle Russell
Nominations for Steering Committee (1 open position)
Lori Dedeyan
Mary Jo Fairchild
Heather Fox
Erin Glasco
Gayle Schechter
Florence Turcotte
Ashlyn Velte
Co-Chair Candidates
Elizabeth Dinschel
Biography: Elizabeth began her career in museums and archives in Florida after earning BAs in History and Political Science and an MA in History with a graduate minor in Public Administration. She worked for a small...
In preparation for the upcoming SAA Oral History Section election, a full slate of candidates has stepped forward to take part in the election for new leadership positions. Each candidate's bio and statement of interest can be viewed at this link on the Oral History Section's microsite.
SAA Staff will launch all ballots the first week of July. Ballots will be open for two weeks and results will be announced prior to the Annual Meeting in Portland.
Museum Archives Standards and Best Practices Working Group
“Work in Progress” Symposium
Wednesday, July 26th, 2017 9am-12noon
Oregon Convention Center
The Museum Archives Section Standards and Best Practices Working Group is holding a half-day symposium on museum archives “work in progress.” Presenters will share pilots, road-tests, and in-progress projects not yet finished with attendees to answer questions on implementation to date as well as solicit feedback and suggestions on next steps....
Our candidates for Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect are Blake Relle (Louisiana State Archives) and Elizabeth Wilkinson (University of Virginia).
Blake Relle (Louisiana State Archives) is our first candidate for Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect:
Biography:Blake Relle received his Master’s Degree in Library and Information Science with a concentration in archive management from LSU in 2013. Currently, he serves as an Archives Specialist at the Louisiana State Archives where he fulfills requests for materials made...
Candidate Biographies and Statements
Vice Chair/Chair-elect
Greg Bailey
Greg Bailey is the University Archivist and Clements Curator at Texas A&M University. He has served in these capacities since January 2014. As University Archivist he is responsible for the day-to-day operations of the university archives and related collections and serves as the primary spokesperson for Texas A&M history on behalf of the Libraries. As Clements Curator he is responsible for the papers of two term...
The Visual Materials Cataloging and Access Section will be holding elections electronically and outside of the annual meeting at SAA. Nominees are current members of SAA and VMCAS, and must be present at the annual meeting in July. Sharon Mizota will take over as Chair from Kait Dorsky at the annual meeting in July 2017.
Vice-Chair/ Chair-Elect Candidate: Ashley Levine, Archivist/Digital Resource Manager, Artifex Press (New York, New York)
About Ashley:
I currently serve as the Archivist and...
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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. As an example, I covered a session at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference last year for the Issues & Advocacy blog. It 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.
Here is one session I would like to have covered: ...
Archives can connect to activism and activist movements in a number of ways, however this connection often falls into two main categories: 1) Archival material being used as evidence in activism campaigns and 2) Archives disrupting social norms by collecting and archiving the work of those outside of mainstream society.
The act of preserving the voices of oppressed groups, marginalized communities, and social movements can be a form of activism. For example, the community driven archival...
Anne Frank Center for Mutual Respect, the independent U.S. national organization among Anne Frank organizations worldwide, has obtained commitments from 26 state legislators across 20 states, including Republicans and Democrats, to introduce legislation that would require education in public schools on the Holocaust, the Armenian Genocide and other genocides.Those 20 states are among the shocking 42 U.S. states that do not already require education on genocide awareness and prevention. The 20...
Up to one and a half million Armenians were killed. Turkey has always rejected the term genocide, saying the violence against Armenians was part of widespread conflict in the region. Taner Akcam has spent his career documenting the targeted killing of Armenian Turks at the start of World War I. He's a Turkish historian at Clark University. And he recently found a document that he calls the smoking gun.
Listen to the interview here.
