The SAA Committee on Ethics and Professional Conduct (CEPC) has drafted a statement regarding the ethical acquisition of campus protest materials. CEPC acknowledges that the protests and police responses occurring on university campuses across the United States are a fast-moving, politically and emotionally charged situation that may leave archivists struggling to make decisions about how—or whether—to document current events. Ethics provide a foundation for action in times of crisis. We...
Thank you to all of our wonderful candidates for volunteering to run for open SAA Collection Management Section positions.
You will be voting for:
One Vice Chair/Chair-Elect (or Co-chair), for a two-year term
One Web Liaison for a two-year term
Two Steering Committee members, for a two-year term.
Ballots will be managed by SAA staff through Survey Monkey; keep an eye on your inbox for when the ballot opens!
Vice Chair/Chair Elect (1)
Jonathan Kirkwood
Records Manager & Associate...
Thank you to all our candidates for standing in the 2024 Design Records Section election! Members, please review their candidate statements below.
You will be voting for:
• Junior Co-Chair (Chair-Elect)
• Steering Committee member
Please note that the election will be managed by SAA Governance staff - keep an eye on your inbox for voting information!
Junior Co-chair Candidate
Morgan Wilson, Architecture Archivist, University of Notre Dame Libraries
Bio & Candidate Statement:
In my current...
You will be voting for:
Two Steering Committee members (three-year terms) (2024-2026); and
One bloggERS Communications Liaison (one-year term) (2024-2025).
A note that we are slightly changing procedure for this election, due to no self-nominations for Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect. In this election, the person who receives the most votes for steering committee member will be offered the vice-chair position, and the candidates who receive the second-most and third-most votes will become steering...
Thank you to all of our excellent candidates for standing in the 2024 Archival History Section 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:
One Vice Chair/Chair-Elect for a one year term and then a one year term as Chair
Three Steering Committee members for a one year term
Ballots will be managed by SAA staff through Survey Monkey; keep an eye on your inbox for when the ballot opens...
Please take some time to review the candidate statements for the 2024-2026 Diverse Sexuality and Gender Section leadership positions before submitting your vote once the ballots open.You will be voting for:1-2 Co-chair(s), for a two-year term; and2 Steering Committee members Ballots will be managed by SAA staff through Survey Monkey; keep an eye on your inbox for when the ballot opens! Co-Chair candidate:
Jordi Padilla-Delgado (he / him)Records Manager at Lloret de Mar Municipal Archive (...
Open Positions
Co-Chair, vote for two
Steering Committee member, vote for one
Co-Chair (3 candidates)
Alphabetical Order
Mary Grace Kosta
Archival Consultant
Bio
Mary Grace Kosta obtained her MA in linguistics from the University of Calgary, and worked for 25 years as a linguist, museum registrar, government manager, and teacher. She then obtained her MLIS with a specialization in archives from the University of Western Ontario. She worked as an archivist for 13 years before retiring and...
Open Positions
Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect, vote for one
Steering Committee member, vote for two
Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect Nominees (1 candidate)
Alphabetical Order
Nick Richbell
Head of Special Collections and Archives, Clemson University
Bio
Dr. Nick Richbell recently received his PhD in History from the University of Waterloo. His area of research is the history of Spiritualism, and his doctoral dissertation is a biographical history about Maurice Barbanell and Silver Birch. Nick is currently...
Read candidate statements for the 2024-2025 election.
The Archivists and Archives of Color Section Steering Committee is excited to announce the excellent slate of candidates running in this year’s election. Please review their bios and statements before casting your votes.
You will be voting for:
1 Co-chair (2-year term)
1 Newsletter Editor (2-year term)
3 Steering Committee Members (2-year term)
SAA staff administer ballots through Survey Monkey and will email you the ballot when voting opens.
Co-chair
Tamera ColemanStaff Corporate Archivist,...
One open Vice Chair position
Autumn Oakey
Autumn Oakey is a Library Assistant at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, where she has worked in archives and libraries for three years. She manages physical records transfers, provides staff and departmental records management training, and updates university retention schedules. She graduated with her bachelor's degree in history from UW-Whitewater in 2021. Additionally, Autumn is working toward a master's in library and information science...
Junior Co-Chair (2-year term):
Jennifer Dantchev, MSLIS
Title: Graduate, Long Island University
Candidate Statement:
I have served on the IAAS committee for two years, first as an Early Career Member and then as a Steering Committee Member. I also have previous experience on the Records Management
Section as an Early Career Member and then as a Steering Committee Member. My previous experience on the IAAS has allowed me to learn and better understand the section, its purpose, and how the whole...
Thank you to all of our excellent candidates for standing in the 2024-2025 SAA SNAP 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:
One Vice Chair/Chair-Elect, for a two-year term; and
3 Steering Committee members (three-year terms).
Secretary
Vice Chair/Chair-Elect Candidates
The following candidates are running for the Vice Chair/Chair-Elect (or Co-chair) position:
Kay...
Thank you to all of our excellent candidates standing in the 2024 Business Archives Section (BAS) election. Please take some time to review their statements and get to know them so you can make an informed choice.
You will be voting for one candidate for each of the following positions:
Vice Chair/Chair-Elect, three-year term
Secretary, one-year term
Vice Editor/Editor-Elect, two-year term
Education Chair, one-year term
Member-at-Large, one-year term
Ballots will be managed by SAA staff;...
In 2024, the SAA Solo Archivists Section (SAS) will elect new leadership to fill the following positions: Vice Chair/Chair, Events Coordinator, Regional Representative, and Web Liaison.
Meet the 2024 Candidates:
Vice Chair/Chair Elect
Kim Bradshaw
Records Manager, Art Museum of the University of Memphis
Bio: Kim Bradshaw is the Records Manager of the Art Museum of the University of Memphis (AMUM). She earned a Master’s degree in Art History and a Graduate Certificate in Museum Studies from...
We are excited to announce our slate of candidates for the 2024 Preservation Section election. Although both of our candidates are running unopposed, we encourage you to review their candidate statements and get to know them. Thank you to our candidates for volunteering!
You will be voting for:
One Vice Chair/Chair-Elect (1 year term as Vice-Chair; following two years as Chair and Past-Chair)
One Member-At-Large (Two-year term)
Ballots will be managed by SAA staff, with ballot information...
2024 Election: Candidate Statements
Thank you to all of the candidates for the 2024 Description Section election. Please read below for candidate biographies and statements of interest.
You will be voting for:
Vice Chair / Chair-Elect
Secretary
One (1) Steering Committee Member-at-Large
Ballots will be managed by SAA staff; keep an eye on your inbox for when the ballot opens!
Vice Chair / Chair-Elect
Max Goldberg
Bio:
Max Goldberg is the Creative Arts Archivist in the Technical...
2024-2025 Election: Candidate Bios/Statements
Thank you to all of our excellent candidates for standing in the 2024 Audio and Moving Image Section 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:
Chair (1 year commitment)
Vice Chair/Chair-Elect (2-year commitment, as Vice-Chair and then Chair)
Member-At-Large, Steering Committee (1 year commitment)
Member-At-Large, Steering Committee (1...
Mary Grace Kosta obtained her MA in linguistics from the University of Calgary, and worked for 25 years as a linguist, museum registrar, government manager, and teacher. She then obtained her MLIS with a specialization in archives from the University of Western Ontario. She worked as an archivist for 13 years before retiring and now serves as an archival consultant. She currently co-chairs the Joint US-Canada AtoM Users Group, the Archives Canada Working Group, and serves on the NDSA...
CANDIDATE STATEMENT
Conor M. Casey, MA, MLIS, CA Head of the Labor Archives of Washington, University of Washington Libraries Special Collections
With 23 years of archival experience, I began my career as an assistant at the Labor Archives & Research Center, San Francisco State University, eventually becoming an archivist and visual materials curator (2001-08). I later served as a research archivist at Pixar Animation Studios before joining the University of Washington Libraries Special...
2024-2025 Candidates & Referendum
Thank you to our excellent candidates for standing in the 2024-2025 Public Library Archives and Special Collections (PLASC) Section election! Please take some time to review the candidate statements below so you can make an informed choice.
You will be voting for:
one Co-chair, for a two-year term; and
one Secretary, for a one-year term.
We are also holding a referendum on revisions to the Section’s standing rules, as detailed below. The proposed...
Thank you to all of our excellent candidates for standing in the 2024 Metadata and Digital Object Section (MDOS) 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:
Three year terms:
Co-Chair (vote for 1)
Steering Committee Member (vote for 1)
Two year term (completing term for previous member):
Communications Liaison (vote for 1)
Ballots will be managed by SAA staff through Survey Monkey; keep...
Thank you to all of our excellent candidates for standing in the 2024 Archives Management Section 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:
One Vice Chair/Chair-Elect, for a three-year term (Vice Chair, Chair, and Past Chair cycle);
One Secretary, for a one-year term; and
2 Steering Committee members, for three-year terms.
Ballots will be managed by SAA staff through Survey Monkey;...
Thank you to all of our excellent candidates for standing in the 2024 STHC Section 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:
One Junior Co-Chair (two-year term)
One At-Large Steering Committee Members (three-year term)
Ballots will be managed by SAA staff, so please keep an eye on your inbox for when the ballot opens!
Junior Co-Chair Candidate
Allison Fischbach
Digital Archivist...
The recording from the May 23 SAS event, "UnBOXed: Instruction for Solo Archivists," is now available here. In addition, presenter Micaela Terronez has generously provided her slides for review and download as well!
Speaker:
Micaela Terronez is a Special Collections Librarian and Instructor at Augustana College in Rock Island, IL. She received her M.L.I.S. from The University of Iowa in 2019. Before her most recent position, she previously instructed class sessions in primary source literacy...
