We are pleased to announce the new members of the CMTRT Steering Committee for 2016-2018:
Vice Chair / Chair-Elect: Stephanie Bennett
Web Liaison: Carolyn Runyon
They will join Jasmine Jones, who is transitioning to Chair in August, and Steering Committee members Martha O’Hara Conway, Daniel Weddington, and Caitlin Wells.
The results are in, and we are pleased to announce that Chloe Raub (Newcomb College Institute of Tulane University) and Rosemary K. J. Davis (Amherst College) will be serving as co-vice-chairs in 2016-2017 and co-chairing the roundtable in 2017-2018.
We were delighted with the great turnout and thank all the candidates who ran. Please contact Chloe, Rosemary, or your new co-chairs Jenny Gotwals and Holly Smith with any ideas for the future of the roundtable.
The Archives Management Roundtable is proud to host an informative presentation at its upcoming meeting on Wednesday, August 3rd, at 6:00 pm:
The program will be a career-focused panel from Beth Myers of Smith College, Christina Zamon of Emerson College, and Steven Booth of the National Archives. To open, Beth will share about salary negotiations, then Christina will speak about hiring, and finally, Steven will discuss career planning in general. After 20-30 minutes of quick highlights, the...
In the third post in our series sharing the results of the SAA-ACRL/RBMS Joint Task Force on the Development of Standardized Statistical Measures for Public Services in Archival Repositories and Special Collections Libraries, we review responses to questions about reference metrics. Overall, the qualitative responses regarding reference reflected very similar themes as those found in theresponses to patron-centered data.
Respondents overwhelmingly count the number of reference transactions at...
Please be sure to vote for the Labor Archives Roundtable Co-Chair. Deadline for voting is July 22nd. If you have not received your ballot, contact Felicia Owens at fowens@archivists.org to get a new one. For more information, see candidate statement under Recent News and Announcements on the LAR group page.
- Catherine Powell, outgoing co-chair
Documenting Diverse Women
There are numerous collections in Georgia that highlight the experiences of women across race, class, sexual orientation, and neighborhood. A panel of four dynamic speakers will discuss archival collections across different repositories as well as various outreach and advocacy efforts aimed at increasing awareness of these resources.
Speakers:
Beverly Guy-Sheftall
Beverly Guy-Sheftall, Ph.D., is the founding director of the Women’s Research and Resource Center and...
In the second of our series exploring the results of a survey issued last fall on behalf of the SAA-ACRL/RBMS Joint Task Force on the Development of Standardized Statistical Measures for Public Services in Archival Repositories and Special Collections Libraries, we delve here into questions of patron-centered metrics. These posts are intended to prime some of the thinking about how we, as a profession, currently collect, work with, and think about data in a public services context.
Regarding...
Upon request, SAA will put Annual Meeting registrants in contact with child care service providers. SAA will subsidize the cost for child care and will plan an appropriate amount in each year's Annual Meeting budget. See this page for more information.
A lactation room will be available for attendees behind the Registration desk. The room will have a refrigerator and SAA staff will ensure that anyone working the registration desk (on Level 1) will be able to direct attendees to the lactation...
The SAA-ACRL/RBMS Joint Task Force on the Development of Standardized Statistical Measures for Public Services in Archival Repositories and Special Collections Libraries is currently developing a new standard defining appropriate statistical measures and performance metrics to govern the collection and analysis of statistical data for describing public services provided by archival repositories and special collections libraries. In August-September 2015, the Task Force disseminated a survey...
Elizabeth Surles (co-chair, 2016-2018)
Elizabeth has been Archivist at the Institute of Jazz Studies since January 2014. Prior to joining the Institute, she was Digitization Archivist and then Library Director at the American Alpine Club Library in Golden, Colorado. She formerly worked at the Sousa Archives and Center for American Music and the Office of Collections in the library of the University of Illinois, where she earned master’s degrees in musicology and library and information science...
Below are the candidates for the 3 vacant positions to serve on the GRS Steering Committee for the 2016-2018 term. Following standing tradition, the candidate with the most votes will be asked to serve as Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect.
Name: Ingi HouseInstitution: U.S. Navy Seabee MuseumGovernment Sector: Federal
Statement of Interest: As a long-time federal archivist, I am interested in serving on the Government Records Steering Committee because I enjoy promoting their usage and assisting...
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 create all ballots by the first week of July and share them with respective section/roundtable chairs, who are responsible for publicizing the ballot to their membership. Ballots will be open for...
Candidate for Vice Chair/Chair-Elect
Jody Hoks
I am the Digital Archivist for the Archives, Local History, and Genealogy Unit at the Fort Worth Library. I am responsible for developing and promoting digital collections, and preserving and providing access to the Archives’ digital materials. Previously, I was the Assistant Archivist for the Bernard Rapoport Legacy Project at the Briscoe Center for American History, and a Project Archivist at the Milwaukee Public Library. I earned an MA in...
Meet the Candidates for the 2016 CMTRT Election
View the Brooklyn Historical Society's Oral History Metadata Synchronizer Guide here.
View the ArchivesSpace Repository Profile for UC Irvine here.
Martha Bace is our candidate for Vice-Chair/Chair-elect:
Biography:Although I’ve lived in Alabama for a significant portion of my adult life, I am a Texan by birth and heritage. After graduating from Vestavia Hills High School in Birmingham, in 1973, I received my bachelor’s degree in history from Austin College in Sherman, Texas, in 1977. After graduation I worked at the University of Alabama in Birmingham in the bookstore for a year and a half before entering library school at George...
My name is Keith Reynolds, I'm self identified cisgender gay male. and I was born and raised in Wyoming. I earned a master’s degree in public history from the University of Wyoming in 2011 and worked as an archivist at the American Heritage center for five years. I currently live in Utah and work for the Salt Lake City government doing records management. I spent two years working at the Utah AIDS Foundation, first as the HIV prevention coordinator and later as the client services...
Thank you to everyone who answered the call for nominations for the upcoming Preservation Section Steering Committee Elections! Here is the slate of nominees for the 2016 elections:
VICE CHAIR/CHAIR-ELECT
Janet CarletonJanet Carleton is Digital Initiatives coordinator for Ohio University Libraries where she is responsible for the digitization and digital preservation of the Libraries unique resources, and promoting their use through social media. She is active in SAA and regional and state...
This year we are electing one Vice Chair/Chair Elect and two Steering Committee members. Electronic ballots will be sent to RLRT members in early July. The Vice Chair/Chair Elect serves a two-year term. Year 1: Serves as Vice Chair and participates as a member of the Steering Committee. Year 2: Serves as Chair of the Roundtable.
Steering Committee members may be appointed or elected, each for a one-year term that is renewable for up to three consecutive years at the discretion of the incoming...
Greetings - Nominations closed on June 1st for the Labor Archives Roundtable Co-Chair. We have one candidate, Conor Casey. You can read his statement here: http://www2.archivists.org/groups/labor-archives-roundtable/candidate-statements-for-2016-labor-archives-roundtable-co-chair-el
The election will be held in July, keep a lookout for the ballot and please be sure to vote to confirm this important position.
many thanks,
Catherine Powell and Meghan Courtney
Candidate Statement for Co-Chair of the Labor Archives Roundtable
Conor Casey, MA, MLIS, CA
Roundtable Service
It was a pleasure serving as Labor Archives Roundtable Co-Chair in 2011-2013 and 2013-2015. In my terms, I coordinated our roundtable’s adoption of bylaws to ensure our compliance with SAA council policy, spearheaded an investigative effort to determine the viability of a topical cross-repository labor collections search portal, enhanced access to our updated LAR repository...
Candidate Biographies and Statements
Vice Chair/Chair-elect
Christy Fic
Christy Fic is the University Archivist & Special Collections Librarian at Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania. Before coming to Shippensburg, she worked as a contract processing archivist for the Smithsonian Institution's National Anthropological Archives. Christy holds an MLIS from the University of Pittsburgh, an MA in Applied History from Shippensburg University, and a BA in Anthropology & Sociology...
