Have you taken leave from work to raise your family, or returned to work after maternity leave? How have employer policies and work environments accommodated your needs, flexible work hours, and leaves? What challenges have you encountered when trying to re-enter the workforce after an extended leave? We want to hear from you, WARriors!
Co-hosted by WAR Co-chair Leslie Van Veen McRoberts (@lslevanmac) and steering committee member Helen Kim (@hlnkim), follow @womenarchivists for our next live...
I&A Steering Committee
2015 September 9
Conference Call
New Business:
A. Plans for feedback from members:
1) Proposed affinity group changes—survey? (due to SAA 9/15) [done]
2) Proposed dues increase—survey? (SAA vote is 10/21 or after)
B. Plans for the year:
1) Wendy (Chair) continues work with SAA leaders to clarify role of I&A within SAA’s advocacy agenda; identify concrete ways to support our mission, vision, values. Goal: establish model of action...
The results are in, and we are pleased to announce that Holly Smith (Spelman College) and Jenny Gotwals (Schlesinger Library) will be serving as co-vice-chairs in 2015-2016 and co-chairing the roundtable in 2016-2017.
We were delighted with the great turnout, and it really was a close race. A big thank you to Erin Lawrimore and Lori Birrell for also throwing their hats into the ring.
Please find attached the minutes for the steering committee meeting on 9/13/2015.
Standards and Best Practices Working Group Meeting Minutes
Friday, August 21, 2015 [Cleveland Convention Center, Cleveland, OH]
Rachel Chatalbash and Susan Hernandez, S&BP Working Group Co-Chairs convened the meeting.
Introductions were made. Emily Perkins and Margaret Huang would like to be added as Working Group members.
The Group's work for the year was discussed. Scope was addressed; are the projects too big? The Working Group Co-Chairs may ask others to lead particular projects in the...
Society of American Archivists Museum Archives Section Business Meeting
Friday, August 21, 2015 at 1:00pm [Cleveland Convention Center, Cleveland, OH]
Minutes submitted by Tamara Gaydos, Recording Secretary
There were 75 people in attendance.
Greetings and Introductions
Outgoing chair Lorraine Stewart welcomed everyone to the meeting and reviewed the activities of the section over the past year. She thanked the working group and the steering committee as well as SAA staff.
Barbara Mathé...
"In May of 2014 the University of Minnesota Libraries charged the Electronic Records Task Force with developing initial capacity for ingesting and processing electronic records; defining ingest and processing workflows as well as tasks and workflows for both technical and archival staff. The Electronic Records Task Force (ERTF) is pleased to announce the final report is now available here through the University Digital Conservancy."
Read the entire post at bloggERS!
The Web Archiving Roundtable conducted an informal poll of our membership to gather feedback on the proposed affinity group changes. We had 41 respondents in the 2 weeks the poll was open, expressing a diversity of opinions.
The results of the poll were forwarded to the SAA Council on September 16th for consideration during their deliberations on this issue.
Web Archiving Roundtable Membership Poll
For those who couldn’t attend the Records Management Roundtable meeting at SAA 2015, I wanted to provide a summary. We had about 60 people turn out for the meeting on August 21, 2015. I started the meeting by describing some of our activities from the past year, such as our revised bylaws, the contributions of the steering committee to The Schedule blog, and changes to the newsletter. We only had one Google Hangout over the last year and we would like to hold more. This is a good opportunity...
For those of you who missed our annual business meeting, Stasia Karel from the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Library and Archives gave a wonderful presentation about her discovery of Gloria Stavers, rock journalist and editor and chief of 16 Magazine. Unfortunately, due to A/V issues, we could not show her slides at the meeting. Fortunately, Stasia agreed to share them here. Check out her slides for tons of amazing images!
We are pleased to announce the results of the 2015 IAART election. Our new steering committee members are:
Ryder Kouba (American University in Cairo) is our incoming Junior co-chair (2015-2016)
Susanne Belovari (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) is our new member-at-large (2015-2018)
Thank you again to all of our candidates!
We are seeking your help with review of the SAA Guidelines for Reappraisal and Deaccessioning. The Technical Subcommittee on Guidelines for Reappraisal and Deaccessioning (TS-GRD) welcomes any and all feedback!
Deadline for comments: December 15, 2015.
Feedback can be submitted directly to lugleanj@uci.edu or made directly in the Google Doc found at: http://tinyurl.com/nd4ut68
We ask you to consider the following when reviewing the guidelines:
How have you used them?
What did you do...
This link will take you to the PLASC Marketing and Advocacy Toolkit, a Wordpress site.
The video and slide presentations from CMTRT's annual meeting at SAA 2015 are now available online,
http://www2.archivists.org/groups/collection-management-tools-roundtable...
2015 CMTRT Election Results
Jasmine JonesVice Chair / Chair-Elect
Martha O'Hara ConwaySteering Committee
Daniel H. WeddingtonSteering Committee
Caitlin WellsSteering Committee
Among many things, the new elected officers for SNAP were introduced at the SNAP RT meeting at the 2015 SAA conference in Cleveland this past week. The officers are
Vice-chair/Chair elect:-Kelly Kietur – Private archive
Secretary:-Rachel Walton – Rollins College
Steering Committee:-Emily Minehart – University of Illinois-Christy Fic – Shippensburg University-Emily Lapworth – University of Nevada-Las Vegas
Samantha Winn took over as Chair of the Round Table.
We're all looking forward to an...
To minimize possible overlap with the recently announced PopUp Sessions, the Electronic Records Section will host its moderated panel discussion prior to the business meeting. The order of events for our section meeting on Thursday, August 20th at 3:00 pm will be as follows:
Moderated panel discussion on implementing digital preservation tools and solutions with archivists, product managers, and developers
Business meeting
Please refer to this page for all relevant information for the 2015 Business Meeting: http://www2.archivists.org/groups/preservation-section/preservation-sect...
Hello RAAC members!
This is a reminder to attend our session titled "Regional Advocacy, National Impact" that will take place Friday afternoon from 3:15-4:15. The session will consist of lightning rounds of representatives from several regional organizations and RAAC sharing about the various advocacy activities their regional has conducted followed by a Q and A session.
We hope to see you there!
Julia Stringfellow, session moderator
After five years of work, the Technical Subcommittee for Encoded Archival Description is thrilled to announce that EAD3 is ready!
EAD3 1.0 is available to download from GitHub at https://github.com/SAA-SDT/EAD3/releases/tag/v1.0.0. The release package can be downloaded as a .zip or .tar.gz, and contains the full set of EAD3 schemas: Relax NG, W3C, and DTD (in regular and undeprecated varieties); the ancillary Schematron schema for validating external code lists, standard data patterns, element...
The latest issue of the Privacy & Confidentiality Roundtable's newsletter, The Keyhole, is now available in both HTML and PDF formats! Contents include:
Welcome from Chair, Amy Fitch
Roundtable Annual Meeting Information
Roundtable Election Results
While You're at the Annual Meeting: Other Privacy-Related Sessions
"We Crossed a Qualitative Threshold and the Privacy Act Hasn't Helped" by Katharina Hering
Updates and Announcements
This and That
If you’ll be at SAA this year, we’d love to see you at the pop up session I&ART is co-sponsoring. Records Management, Access, and Born-Digital MPLP: A Conversation about Empowering Archivists and Preventing Crises will be Thursday, from 4:00-5:00 in Grand Ballroom A. Please attend! We’d love to see your faces in the audience.
If you aren't able to attend, we'll be tweeting #RMcrisis
Session Description:
In December 2014, a controversy arose at the University of Oregon in which...
Below is the agenda for the 2015 PLASC Roundtable meeting at SAA. Attached are the meeting minutes.
Agenda for the Public Library Archives/Special Collections (PLASC) Roundtable Meeting
Friday, August 21, 2015
4:30PM to 6:00PM
Room 25AB, Cleveland Convention Center
PLASC Business
· Announcements by SAA Council Representative Geoff Huth.
· This year’s PLASC initiative (more detail later in meeting).
· Announcement of 2015-2016 Steering Committee members.
· ...
