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
1)
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...
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...
The Philip M. Hamer and Elizabeth Hamer Kegan Award Subcommittee of the Society of American Archivists seeks nominations (including self-nominations) for the 2017 award.
This award recognizes an archivist, editor, group of individuals, or institution that has increased public awareness of a specific body of documents through compilation, transcription, exhibition, or public presentation of archives or manuscript materials for educational, instructional, or other public purpose. Archives...
January 27, 2016 6:00-8:00p.m. The Burke Library Reading Room (3rd Floor)
Union Theological Seminary, 3041 Broadway
Panelists: Larry Cox, Co-Director, Kairos: The Center for Religions, Rights and Social Justice and former Executive Director, Amnesty International USA; Gail Hovey, Former member of the Southern Africa Committee, American Committee on Africa; Rev. William Wipfler, Former Director of the Latin American Department of the National Council of Churches
Moderator: Carolyn...
A group of "engineers, designers, business executives, and others" created and signed a pledge vowing not to create a database of individuals based on their religious beliefs. In doing so, the writers of the pledge acknowledge the role of technology in human rights abuses throughout history and vow to identify and advocate against the targeting of marginalized communities such as Muslims and immigrants.
The full pledge can be found at http://neveragain.tech/
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 January newsletter, please send you submission by January 15, 2017.
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...
by George Apodaca (Harvard University) and Ana Rodriguez (University of Florida) Co-chairs, Latin American and Caribbean Cultural Heritage (LACCHA) Section
Mexican archivist Enrique Chmelnik, president of the Association of Mexican Private Archives and Libraries (AMABPAC) and director of the Center for Documentation and Jewish Research in Mexico (CDIJUM) was the guest speaker and presenter at the Latin American and Caribbean Cultural Heritage Section (LACCHA) gathering during Archives*...
What happens when depository librarians look beyond our SuDoc “Y” collections? Are the real gems of Congressional information filed in archival boxes or in the open stacks of depository libraries? In every state, Congressional archives are the perfect complement to federal depository libraries. As documents librarians learn about local Members of Congress and their papers, we can bring increased focus to our own collection development, LibGuides, reference, and instruction. In this session, two...
C-SPAN3 interviews Robert Spindler, Arizona State, about the Carl Hayden and Barry Goldwater papers and Maurita Baldock, University of Arizona, about Morris Udall, Stewart Udall and Gabby Giffords.
The 2015-2016 Collection Management Tools Roundtable annual report is now available online.
The Basics of Disaster Preparedness: In Case “It Will Never Happen to Us” Happens Tomorrow
While we cannot cover the vast amount of information related to disaster preparedness, it is our hope that we can give PLASC members enough information to get started. Basic information covered will include who to call for help, where to find resources, what supplies they should have on hand, how to handle wet items, and the importance of documenting your event.
