Note from the Chair
Hello,
As we approach the 2016 annual meeting, I’m not only looking forward to meeting many of you in Atlanta, but also to the official launch of the SAA Oral History Project Digital Collection. Please join us at the section meeting on Thursday, August 4, 3:30-5pm in Room 204/205 to learn more from project intern Treshani Perera.
This collection was made possible by the hard work of more than 35 members of the section who coordinated and conducted interviews, created...
Welcoming Our New Steering Committee Members
The Oral History Section wishes to congratulate the newest members of our Steering Committee! In our online section election which ran from July 8th-July 22nd, the following candidates were elected:
Vice Chair/Chair-elect
Amanda Pellerin
Amanda Pellerin holds a Masters in Historic Preservation from Georgia State University and a Masters in Library and Information Sciences from Valdosta State University. She received SAA's Digital Archives...
Announcing the launch of the SAA Oral History Project Digital Collection at ARCHIVES*RECORDS 2016
Treshani Perera, SAA Oral History Project Intern, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee Archives
The SAA Oral History Project Digital Collection at the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee (UWM) will be launched during the ARCHIVES*RECORDS 2016 Oral History Section meeting (Thursday, August 3, 2016 3:30pm-5:00pm). The project intern, Treshani Perera, will discuss her experience processing and creating the...
Aerial Dance and Oral Histories – An Innovative Celebration of Archives
Catherine Powell, Director, Labor Archives and Research Center, San Francisco State University
The Labor Archives and Research Center at San Francisco State University celebrated its 30th anniversary this year in a big way. The Archives had been off campus in a remote location for most of its history and we saw the anniversary event as a great opportunity to make our hidden collections more visible - and what’s more...
Inspire and Educate: Japanese American World War Two Veterans oral histories inspiring and educating the public
Summer Espinoza, Digital Collections Manager, Go For Broke National Education Center
Go For Broke is an informal phrase meaning, “risk everything” or “go all in.” During World War II, Japanese American servicemen adopted this motto while serving their country, even after President Roosevelt enacted Executive Order 9066, ordering over 100,000 Japanese Americans living on the west...
Angling Oral History Project at Montana State University
James Thull, Special Collections Librarian, Montana State University
Montana State University Special Collections Library has been working on an Angling Oral History Project that seeks to interview anglers, politicians, artists, authors, and just about anyone else whose work relates to trout and salmon. The project is part of our larger Trout and Salmonid Collection which contains nearly 12,000 printed works and the archival papers of...
Sabbatical Project Uses Oral History
Meg Miner, Archivist, Illinois Wesleyan University
A project titled “Portrait of a Collector: A View from the Shelves of Minor Myers, jr.” uses documentary evidence and oral history to close a gap in institutional memory that resulted when Illinois Wesleyan University’s (IWU) 17th president died in office in 2003. Within the library, storytelling about President Myers relates to his involvement in managing library collections. His stated reason for being...
NHPRC Funded Oral History Digitization Project at Evanston History Center Now Complete
Lori Osborne, Director of Archives & Outreach, Evanston History Center
Evanston, Illinois was one of the earliest suburban communities settled outside the city of Chicago and is the site of much important American history. Not only was Evanston home to prominent national figures like Frances Willard, Daniel Burnham and Charles Gates Dawes, but Evanston was from its founding, a place where momentous events...
Wednesday August 3, 2016 6:00pm - 7:30pm
Salon E Hilton Atlanta, 255 Courtland Street NE, Atlanta, GA 30303
6:00-6:10 Welcome + words from our Council Liaison, Kris Kiesling
6:15-6:40 Chair report
• Itinerant Archivists trip to Ecuador
• Desmantelando Fronteras/Breaking Down Borders
• SAA Diversity Award Statement on the Orlando and Archivists’ Role in Creating a More Diverse Society by Leaders of AACR, LACCHA, and LAGAR
• Participation of LACCHA in the SAA Leadership Forum Panel Discussion on...
Thursday, August 4, 2016, 3:30 pm, Rooms 204/205, Atlanta Hilton
1. Chair’s welcome, Rachel (5 minutes)
2. SAA Council Liaison, Pam Hackbart-Dean (5 minutes)
3. Introduction of current and incoming officers (5 minutes)
4. Old business
a. Introduction of new newsletter editor, Melissa Lindberg
b. SAA 2016 sessions related to Oral History
c. Council Exemplary Service Award
d. Final report on the SAA Oral History Project (Treshani Perera) (20 minutes)
5...
The Acquisitions and Appraisal Section will be holding a runoff election during its annual meeting in Atlanta, Georgia on Thursday, August 4th from 3:30-5pm. Due to a tie in the regular election, this runoff election is for one of the member-at-large positions on the steering committee. The two candidates who tied are Mat Darby and Juile I. May. Their candidate statements are below.
Mat Darby
Biographical statement:
Education
M.L.I.S., University of Texas at Austin (2000)
B.A., English,...
Meeting date & time: Wednesday, August 3 from 6-7:30 PM
Location: Off-site. Email rmseale@iastate.edu to confirm attendance & get meeting location.
Agenda
Approve last year’s minutes
Introduce new officers
Council liaison (Pam Hackbart-Dean)
Discuss mission & name of Security RT & its future
Call for volunteers
Discussion of retention periods for video surveillance
Discussion of case studies
Election Results
Junior Co-Chair: Miranda Mims
Secretary: Jaime Marie Burton...
Collection Management Tools Roundtable Meeting AgendaWednesday, August 3, 20164:00 - 5:00 PMSalon C Hilton Atlanta, 255 Courtland Street NE, Atlanta, GA 30303
4:00-4:05: Welcome and Announcements
4:05-4:20: Review of Year’s Activities
4:20-5:25: Presentations and Q&A
5:25-5:30: Council Liaison Announcements
Mark Custer (Yale University) and Susan Pyzynski (Harvard University), ArchivesSpace public interface
Come hear an update about the new ArchviesSpace Public Interface, which is...
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...
