Dear Colleagues,
To gather information from archivists and special collections librarians about current practices and priorities for standardized measures for public services, 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 requesting your input through a survey. Your responses will help inform the development of standardized measures for public services in archives and...
Please join the Records Management Roundtable at SAA 2015 for a series of lightning talks on various records management topics. We have a great lineup and look forward to having good discussions. The meeting will be held Friday, August 21 from 4:30 - 6:00pm in the Grand Ballroom A at the Cleveland Convention Center. If you can't attend follow along with #rmrt #saa15. The agenda is available here.
For the agenda, we will have a brief business meeting with announcements followed by these...
Please join us at the WCRT Meeting in Cleveland!
The Women's Collections Roundtable promotes the preservation and research use of records documenting women and provides a network for archivists working with related collections. Anyone interested in documenting women's history is welcome at the annual business meeting. Attendees are invited to share their successes and challenges in an open discussion about promoting access to women's collections.
Women's Collections Roundtable Meeting...
Hello fellow Regional Archival Associations Consortium representatives,
We are looking forward to seeing you at the RAAC Annual Meeting.
Time: Wednesday, August 19th, 2015
2:00-3:30 pm, during the SAA Annual Meeting.
Location: Severance (Renaissance Cleveland Hotel, 24 Public Square, Cleveland, OH 44113)
Agenda:
Introductions
Brief review of three-year plan
Subcommittee overviews / reports
RAAC/SGA symposium in 2016
Communication schedule
Subcommittee breakout sessions
Wrap-up...
The Guidelines for Reappraisal and Deaccessioning is undergoing its first review since SAA Council first approved the Guidelines in 2012. The Technical Subcommittee on Reappraisal and Deaccessioning is soliciting feedback.
To begin thinking about reviewing the Guidelines, the technical subcommittee asks you to consider the following:
How have you used the Guidelines?
What have you found helpful?
What have you done differently or what might you do differently than the procedures described in...
The archival community recognizes the need to define a metadata schema for encoding the description of archival functions. Based on this need and demand, and with the approval of the Standards Committee for the Society of American Archivists, the Technical Subcommittee on EAC-CPF, charged to address encoding needs for archival contextual entities (starting with corporate bodies, persons and families), has initiated the work for developing a schema for Functions. A Working Group was created with...
The CMTRT Steering Committee is very pleased to debut the first iteration of the CMTRT Documentation Portal, available here:
http://www2.archivists.org/groups/collection-management-tools-roundtable/cmt-documentation-portal
Overtime we hope to make the Portal more robust by adding:
More user generated manuals and guides, particularly for non-represented or under-represented tools
Any “official” public documentation distributed by tools such as the Archivists’ Toolkit or Archon
Guidelines for...
CMTRT members:
Please join us on Wednesday August 19, 2015 from 3-4:30pm in Room 25A in the Cleveland Convention Center. We will be discussing the CMTRT Documentation Portal and we will also hear from 4 members who will present “simple solutions to common CMT challenges,” followed by Q&A. It’s going to be a great session, so we hope you can make it!
Meeting Agenda
3pm: Welcome and Announcements
3:15pm: CMTRT Documentation Portal: Purpose, Progress, and Next Steps
3:30pm: “Simple Solutions”...
Please join us in welcoming the incoming MDOR steering committee members. We are so pleased to have them on board!
Co-Chair: Arcadia Falcone (Yale University)
Steering Committee: Matt McEniry (Texas Tech University)
Steering Committee: Aaron Speight (Truman State University)
Steering Committee: Melissa Torres (University of Houston-Downtown)
The results of the Latin American and Caribbean Cultural Heritage Archives Roundtable 2015 elections are in. Welcome to our incoming Co-Chair George Apodaca and our Online Communication Liaison Lauren B. Goodley.
Congratulations to the new members of the GRS steering committee: Laura Saegert of the Texas State Library and Archives Commission and Tony Wright archivist for the City of Grand Rapids, Michigan. Congratulations and Welcome Aboard!!!
August 19, 20155-7 PMCleveland, OhioSAA Joint meeting between International Archival Affairs (IAA) Roundtable and Latin American and Caribbean Cultural Heritage Archives (LACCHA) Roundtable
Agenda
5:00 Welcome and Introductions (Natalie Baur and Christian Kelleher)
5:10 Introduction to the Itinerant Archivist idea, model, and project (Natalie Baur, Christian Kelleher, Francine Snyder)
5:15 Presentations by Jorge Yepez and Judy Blankenship on archives and archivology in Ecuador
(English...
Members of the Technical Subcommittee on Guidelines for Reappraisal and Deaccessioning (TS-GRD) will spend the first half presenting an overview of the Guidelines. The second half will be dedicated to questions and feedback from the audience. The Lunch & Learn kicks off the first formal review of the Guidelines since becoming an official SAA standard in 2012. Your feedback, questions and comments will be invaluable for improving the standard. Bring your lunch and join us to learn more about...
Congratulations to our election winners:
Jeremy Brett, Vice Chair/Chair-Elect
Judith Wiener, Steering Committee member
They will take office following the roundtable's annual meeting in Cleveland on Friday, August 21, at 4:30 pm. Many thanks to all of the candidates for their willingness to be a part of the roundtable's leadership.
We look forward to seeing you in Cleveland!
The message below was sent by Sarah Quigley to the Issues & Advocacy listserv on Friday, July 24, 2015
Members,
I’m pleased to share the results of our recent election.
Christine George has been elected Vice-Chair. Jeremy Brett and Alison Stankrauff have both been re-elected to the Steering Committee and they’ll be joined by new members Laurel Bowen and Tara Kelley. They’ll be working closely with next year’s chair, Wendy Hagenmaier. This is a great group of professionals and I’m...
Dear STHC Roundtable Members, Get involved and make new connections at this year’s Science, Technology, and Healthcare (STHC) Roundtable meeting at the SAA Annual Meeting at the Cleveland Convention Center. As your calendar fills up with tours of Cleveland’s many wonderful museums, libraries, and archives, be sure to leave room on Friday afternoon to attend the STHC roundtable meeting! The STHC Roundtable will meet on Friday, August 21st, from 4:30 to 6:00 (check the final on-site program...
Hello Records Management Roundtable!
Are you going to be at SAA in August? Do you have a records management question or a topic you would like to share with the roundtable?
For the Annual Meeting in August, the roundtable meeting (Friday 8/21, 4:30-6:00) is collecting presentation ideas for lightning talks (about 5 minutes) after the business meeting. Along those lines, are there pressing issues, exciting developments, or otherwise unaddressed topics you’d like to discuss during the meeting?...
The Society of American Archivists Annual Meeting in Cleveland will provide an opportunity for attendees to ask questions of and learn about the work of the three joint SAA-ACRL/RBMS Joint Task Forces on Public Services Measures, Holdings Counts and Measures, and Primary Source Literacy. The lunch forum scheduled to begin at 12:15pm on Thursday, August 20th will include a brief background on the creation of the task forces and an overview of each task force before opening to attendees for...
RAAC members -- please be aware of this new threat to the NHPRC and know that we will follow up with a specific call to action once this bill hits of the House floor (might be weeks or months from now).
SAA's current news alert:
SAA learned this morning from the National Coalition for History that the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, which oversees NARA, will take up a bill tomorrow morning to address the recent data breach at the Office of Personnel Management. Committee...
CPR members are encouraged to send comments about the draft documents to CPR leadership (rob.spindler@asu.edu) or directly to CAPP, as you prefer. The documents will also be discussed at the CPR business meeting during the SAA Annual Conference.
RAAC Steering Committee meeting minutes from the June 29, 2015 meeting are available online at:
Meeting Minutes
The Committee on Advocacy and Public Policy (CAPP) has drafted two documents to address issues on SAA's Public Policy Agenda and is seeking GRS member comments before forwarding them to Council for consideration.
The first draft statement concerns issues of privacy and access to records, while the second looks at the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) and some general concerns related to Federal records management. These two documents are attached below.
Comments on either of...
Jennifer MotszkoJennifer graduated from the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee with Master's degrees in History and Library and Information Science. Since 2008, she has worked as the Manuscript Archivist for The University of North Carolina at Greensboro's Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives. As Manuscript Archivist, Jennifer collects materials that document the historical, political, and cultural landscape of the Piedmont Triad region and support the...
Message from the Chair
I am very pleased to share the news with you that SAA Council has approved our request to change our name and scope. We are now officially the Collection Management Tools Roundtable (CMTRT). Thanks to all of you for your feedback and conversations around this issue. Special thanks to past chair Sasha Griffin and past Council liaison Bill Landis, to current and past Steering Committee members, and to our new Council liaison Rachel Vagts who all put their energy behind this...
