The Museum Archives Section’s Standards and Best Practices Working Group is holding a half-day symposium on born-digital records in a museum setting at this year’s Annual Meeting. We will discuss acquiring, preserving, and providing access to born-digital archival materials and consider strategies for successful collaborations with our colleagues in other departments. While focused on museums, this symposium will be valuable for any archivist dealing with born-digital records and communicating...
Issues and Advocacy 2016 Roundtable Ballot
Vice-Chair (vote for one)
Hope M. DunbarBio:I would like to nominate myself for the position of Vice-Chair for the Issues & Advocacy Roundtable. I am currently an Archivist at SUNY Buffalo State College in the Archives & Special Collections Department. Previously, I have had roles in the Special Collections & Rare Book Department of the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library; the Library & Archives of the John Felice Rome Center...
Co-chair Candidates
Stacie Williams: Stacie Williams is the Learning Lab Manager at the University of Kentucky's Special Collections Research Center, coordinating an undergraduate archives research internship, and she additionally teaches the graduate-level archives and manuscripts management course in UK’s School of Library and Information Science. She has previously worked at Tufts University's Digital Collections and Archives, the Harvard Medical School's Countway Library, and the Lexington...
Biographies and statements
Candidates for Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect:
Maria Angel Diaz and Cheylon Woods
Candidates for Newsletter Editor:
Anita Mechler and Rebecca Hankins
View Polina's bio and statement: http://www2.archivists.org/groups/science-technology-and-healthcare-roundtable/2016-elections-0
Vacant positions
Junior Co-Chair: 2 year term. First year serve as Junior Co-C hair, learn the ropes. Second year serve as Senior Co-Chair.
Secretary: 1 year term
Main responsibilities of vacant positions are providing leadership & direction for the Security Roundtable. This includes, but is not limited to, planning the annual meeting, holding additional meetings as needed to evaluate activities/direction of roundtable, sending relevant announcements to the roundtable via the listserv, and...
The Visual Materials Cataloging and Access Roundtable will be holding elections electronically and outside of the annual meeting at SAA. Nominees are current members of SAA and VMCAR, and must be present at the annual meeting in August. Kait Dorsky will take over the Chair from Shannon Erb at the annual meeting in August 2016.
Vice-Chair/ Chair-Elect Candidate: Sharon Mizota, Production Art Librarian at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (Beverly Hills, California)
About Sharon:
I...
We have three candidates for the EAD Roundtable Co-Chair position this year and two candidates for one Steering Committee Member position. Please read the following statements and don't forget to cast your vote once the electronic ballots go out!
Co-chair Candidates
Patrick Galligan
Assistant Digital Archivist at the Rockefeller Archive Center
Biographical Statement
Patrick Galligan completed his MSI with a focus in Archives and Records Management from the University of Michigan in 2013. He is...
For all RAAC representatives, current and new, please plan to attend our annual general meeting. If you are unable to attend, please send someone from your organization as a representative.
Wednesday, August 3, 2016, 2:00–3:30pmThe Atlanta Hilton, Atlanta, GA (exact room to be announced).
Note: This meeting is being held during SAA's conference for convenience, but you do not need to be registered for the SAA meeting to attend our RAAC meeting.
Please rsvp using this form by Monday, July 4,...
As a reminder, your candidates are:
Vice Chair/Chair Elect (vote for one):
Jean Green
Alison Stankrauff
Steering Committee (vote for two):
Greta Browning
Kristen Chinery
Josue Hurtado
Mandy Mastrovita
Julie Porterfield
Rachel Seale
Florence Turcotte
Joshua Youngblood
CANDIDATE FOR VICE-CHAIR/CHAIR-ELECT: Janet Hauck, CAI would like to nominate myself, Janet Hauck, CA, for the position of Vice Chair/Chair Elect of the Archives of Religious Collections Section of SAA. I am very interested, as well as highly qualified, for this position. I am currently in my 18th year as the University Archivist at Whitworth University in Spokane, WA, where, along with our institutional records, I curate the Pacific Northwest Protestantism Collection. This collection is...
The Lesbian and Gay Archives Roundtable of SAA is extending the call for nominations for our male self-identified co-chair to serve the Roundtable, 2016-2018. As per our bylaws, the current male self-identified co-chair must step down at the close of our annual business meeting, 2016; and we hope to replace him at that time. The new co-chair will work with the current female self-identified co-chair in organizing meetings, sub-committees and task forces, as well as investigating our bylaws,...
SAA’s Recorded Sound Roundtable is seeking submissions for this year's issue of our newsletter, Recorded Sound. Suggested topics for contributions include:
Archive profiles
Current preservation and/or access efforts
Best practices from the field
Member spotlights
Collaborative efforts
Reports on conferences/workshops
Challenges for archivists working with recorded sound
Opportunities for sound archives
Student forum
News announcements: collections, grants, professional achievements, etc.
Any...
In March 2015 the Moravian Archives in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, received a $37,982 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to fund a planning project for the conservation and digitization of 120 linear feet of archival records documenting Moravian mission work in the eastern West Indies, with an emphasis on the history of the Caribbean’s enslaved populations. The Humanities Collections and Reference Resources Grant awarded by the NEH will serve to improve accessibility to the...
The Acquisitions and Appraisal Section is seeking nominations for candidates to run for the following three positions:
Vice-Chair / Chair-Elect
Steering Committee At-Large Member (2 positions available)
In order to be nominated for these positions, candidates must be a member of the Society of American Archivists and a member of the Acquisitions and Appraisal Section. You are invited to nominate yourself or someone else for any of the above positions.
The duties of these appointments are...
The SAA Preservation Section is sending out a call for nominations. Thistime around, we are looking to fill two positions.From a practical standpoint, we meet for an hour on the 2nd Friday of themonth and the meetings occur via conference call.We need a Vice Chair/Chair Elect, described as follows:B. Vice Chair/Chair Elect The Vice Chair/Chair Elect is elected by themembership through a balloting process and holds the position for one year,becoming Chair the following year. The responsibilities...
Please consider nominating yourself or someone else for a leadership position in the Security Roundtable. We need a Secretary (1 year commitment) and Junior co-chair (2 year commitment, second year will be Senior co-chair).
This year’s Senior co-chair will be Bryan Whitledge from Central Michigan University. He has been Junior co-chair and Secretary in the Security roundtable.
We are a pretty low-key roundtable and as a former secretary, former junior co-chair, and soon to be former senior co-...
The Women Archivists Roundtable is looking for WARriors! We are currently seeking nominations for one Co-chair and four Steering Committee members. Terms begin this August at the close of the annual meeting in Atlanta.
(1 position) - Co-chairs share leadership of WAR and work with the Steering Committee members on WAR events and projects, plan the annual meeting, and lead the overall direction of the roundtable. The Co-chair serves a two-year term, followed by one year on the steering...
Labor Archives Roundtable Colleagues,
It's the time of year when we send out the call for nominees to fill the staggered, two-year term as Labor Archives Roundtable co-chair. This term will be for 2016-2018, and will begin in August.
Co-Chair Catherine Powell’s co-chair spot will be expiring, and she is not eligible to serve another consecutive term under the roundtable bylaws. If we have more than one candidate, we have the option of holding an election. If there is only one nominee,...
The SAA Women’s Collections Roundtable is currently seeking nominees for the roles of Vice Co-Chair/Co-Chair Elect. For the first year of the two year term, the two elected officers will hold the positions of Vice Co-Chairs. The second year in office, the elected officers will hold the positions of Co-Chairs. Newly elected officers will assume office immediately following the conclusion of the Annual Meeting in August.
Candidates for election must be members of SAA and the WCRT. Self-...
The Steering Committee is pleased to present an amended set of bylaws for the membership to review and vote upon in the upcoming election. The main reasons for amending the bylaws are to:
Clear up inconsistencies in language
Clarify processes and address concerns regarding elections
Formalize the Section web intern position duties
Formally share Section duties across the leadership
Per the bylaws, the amendments shall be available for review on the Section’s website for 30 days before...
Please join WAR at the SAA Annual Meeting to create and improve Wikipedia articles related to women archivists, in order to highlight the past and present accomplishments of women archivists, recognizing the importance of the history of the women who have shaped and were shaped by the archival profession. No Wikipedia editing experience necessary! Bring your laptop, power cord, and ideas for entries that need updating or creation. However, you don't need to be at the annual meeting to...
The Archival History Roundtable is pleased to solicit nominations for four open positions:
Roundtable vice chair/chair-elect.
Three steering committee members.
Steering committee members serve for one year. The vice chair/chair-elect serves for two years (one year as vice chair, and one year as chair). For more details, please see the roundtable's bylaws.
Nominees must be current members of the Society of American Archivists to be considered by the Steering Committee for election.
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