Meet our wonderful slate of candidates for the 2016 WCRT election. The two individuals receiving the most votes will serve as co-Vice Chairs of the roundtable in 2016-2017 and co-Chairs of the roundtable in 2017-2018.
Annalise Berdini
Biography
I am currently the Digital Archivist at UC San Diego Special Collections and Archives. I previously worked as project assistant and processor on the PACSCL/CLIR Hidden Collections Project in Philadelphia, PA, where I earned my MLIS in Archives...
SAA LACCHA Jr. Co-Chair nominee Ana D. RodriguezAna D. Rodriguez has been involved with learning environments such as art collections, museums, and libraries for the past seventeen years. These combined experiences have allowed her to acquire a knowledge base in the areas of art documentation, exhibits preparation, description of archival visual materials, and various aspects of special collections librarianship. Ana’s journey in archives started in Puerto Rico where she worked as assistant...
SAA Recorded Sound Roundtable 2016/2017 Elections
Nominee Bios and Statements
Vice Chair/Chair Elect
Tre Berney: Tre is the Director of Digitization and Conservation Services at Cornell University Library, overseeing the Digital Media Group and the Conservation Lab. I designed and created Cornell’s AV Digitization Lab and help develop preservation and access workflows and policy for digital content across the library. I have an extensive background in audiovisual production,...
SNAP RT 2016-2017 Ballot
Vice Chair/Chair-Elect Candidates
Megan Moltrup - University of Texas at Austin
My name is Megan Moltrup. I graduated from the University of Texas at Austin this past May. During my time at UT, I specialized in archives and was involved in our student chapter of SAA. Last year, I served as our President, one of my major projects was working to organize a roundtable meeting for student chapter officers. I've worked in a variety of institutions including the Harry Ransom...
Nominations for Chair
Beth Cron
Beth Cron is a Senior Records Management Policy Analyst at the National Archives and Records Administration. She is a member of the Records Management Policy and Outreach Section within the Office of the Chief Records Officer. Her team has produced guidance on social media records, cloud computing, and email archiving applications. Beth is a 2008 graduate of the School of Information at the University of Michigan and she specialized in Archives and Records...
Cliff Hight, Candidate for VP/Chair-Elect
Biographical statement:
Cliff Hight has been the university archivist at Kansas State University Libraries since 2011. His primary stewardship is the preservation and accessibility of historically-significant university records in all formats. He holds an MSIS in archives and records administration and an MA in history from the University at Albany, State University of New York. He was the archivist/curator at the Royal Gorge Regional Museum and...
SOCIETY OF AMERICAN ARCHIVISITS
Archival History Round Table
Election of Officers
2016-2017
The election of new officers for the Archival History Roundtable will be held for the following positions: Vice Chair/Chair-Elect (1 position) and Steering Committee (3 positions).
Each candidate was invited to submit a brief background statement of experience and interest in the Archival History Roundtable.
Candidate for Vice Chair/Chair-Elect:
Kelly Kolar (Middle Tennessee State University)
I am...
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-...
