Election results are in! Your 2017-18 SAA Research Libraries Section Steering Committee includes:
Lisa Carter, The Ohio State University Libraries: Chair, 7/29/2017 - 8/18/2018
Vakil Smallen, George Washington University: Vice Chair/Chair-Elect, 7/29/2017 - 8/18/2018
Daniel Cavanaugh, University of Virginia’s Claude Moore Health Sciences Library: 7/29/2017 - 8/7/2019
Anton duPlessis, Texas A&M University Libraries: 8/6/2016 - 8/18/2018
Jean Green, Binghamton University Libraries: 7/...
CPS will hold a special election to fill a vacant seat on the CPS Steering Committee. Biographical information and responses from the two candidates are below:
1. Rebecca Denne, Special Projects Archivist, University of South Carolina, South Carolina Political Collections, M.L.S., M.A. Public History
What is your experience with congressional papers?
My experience with political papers began with graduate research in the Mayoral Archives in Indianapolis which houses the collections of local...
You asked and we delivered. The new SNAP Student Chapter Manual is now available under "Resources" on the right-hand sidebar of the SNAP webpage.
You can also access the Student Chapter Manual here.
Power Point slides from the PLASC meeting at SAA17 are available here.
Following the 2017 Preservation Section Business Meeting in Portland, OR, we have begun to compile Handling Guidelines from reading rooms around the country. We hope these will serve as a helpful resource for those institutions looking to write new handling policies, revise existing policies, or create new handouts and guides for their patrons. Check out the new resources at: https://www2.archivists.org/groups/preservation-section/resource-library-handling-guidelines-for-the-reading-room
The 2017 MARS meeting at the annual SAA convention focused quite a bit on the future of the Section and several potential future projects were brought up by presenters and from the floor.
First, the Military Archival Collection Directory now has a rudimentary start on the SAA MARS' microsite: https://www2.archivists.org/groups/military-archives-section/mars-launches-directory-of-military-archival-collections. With time, MARS will grow this list into a dynamic tool for broad use. This project...
Research Libraries SectionCandidates for 2017 election
Vice-Chair/Chair-elect:
Vakil Smallen
Biography: Vakil is the National Education Association Archivist at George Washington University, responsible for processing describing and promoting collections, and providing reference assistance. He primarily works with GW Libraries’ unique collections related to education, including the records of the National Education Association. Additionally, he was part of a project to explore the potential for...
The 2017 MARS officer candidates' biographies and statements are in the attached PDF.
Candidate Biographies and Statements
***Voting is NOW open! Members will receive an email from SAA with voting instructions. Voting is open until Friday, August 25th.****
Vice Chair/Chair-Elect
Ricardo L. Punzalan
Assistant Professor of Archives & Digital CurationCollege of Information StudiesUniversity of Maryland, College Park
Bio: Ricardo L. Punzalan is assistant professor of archives and digital curation at the College of Information Studies, affiliate faculty in the Department of...
In order to facilitate greater communications between archivists whose institutions hold collections related to the military and its impact on society, the Military Archives Section is compiling a Directory of Military Archival Collections. This directory is open in any institution, large or small, military or government, academic, public or private which holds military related archival materials. Even if this is not the primary focus of your instituation, all archives holding such materials...
Here, below, is a listing of the candidates elected to serve the open positions. Thank you to all candidates and for all who voted:
Vice Chair/Chair Elect: Greg McCoy (Procter & Gamble)
Vice Editor: Meredith Torre (Atlanta Housing Authority)
Secretary: Michele McKinnon Fricke (Capital Group)
Member at Large: Lauren Gaylord (Pixar Animation Studios)
Education Chair: Jennifer Johnson (Cargill, Inc.)
Welcome new members of the IAAS Steering Committee!
Junior Co-Chair Katharina Hering (National Equal Justice Library)
Member-at-large Mark Edwin Peterson (Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library & Museum)
Hello Section members,
SAA’s Archives Management Section addresses the identification and consideration of management and leadership issues that are important to archivists and archival institutions and brings together archivists from dissimilar institutions who share these interests. On behalf of the Steering Committee I want to encourage all Archives Management Section members in attendance at SAA to join us for our annual meeting on Thursday, August 16 from 4:15-5:30 p.m. in Delaware B...
International Archival Affairs Section (IAAS) and Latin American and Caribbean Cultural Heritage Section (LACCHA) Meeting
Society of American Archivists Annual Meeting
Thursday July 27, 2017 2:00pm - 3:15pm
Oregon BR 203
Welcome by Ryder Kouba, IAAS Senior co-chair, and Ana D. Rodriguez, LACCHA junior co-chair
2:05 pm – Election results for IAAS and LACCHA, Daniel Necas Junior co-chair, and Ana D. Rodriguez, LACCHA junior co-chair
2:10 pm - Announcement by SAA Council Liaison
2:20 pm...
Performing Arts Section Agenda, Friday July 28, 11:15-12:30
Call to Order
Business Meeting (11:15-11:35)
Updates from Council Rep
PAR Updates/Election Announcement
Member Updates
Presentation (11:40-12:05): Tom Clareson, LYRASIS, Project Director of the Performing Arts Readiness Project - Disaster Planning for Performing Arts Collections. Read more about the Performing Arts Readiness Project here: http://performingartsreadiness.org/
Presentation (12:10-12:25): Kate Crowe (Curator of...
The SAA/RBMS Joint Task Force on the Development of Guidelines for Primary Source Literacy is pleased to host its final Open Forum at the Oregon Convention Center on Thursday, July 27th, from 12:15-1:00 PM in room A106. Please join us for an overview of our two-year process of drafting and revising the final version of the Guidelines for Primary Source Literacy, next steps for the Guidelines and an exciting new SAA epublication, Case Studies on Teaching with Primary Sources, and a discussion of...
Wednesday July 26, 2017, 4:00 pm, A105, Oregon Convention Center
Business Meeting (15 minutes)
1. Chair’s Welcome
2. SAA Council Liaison updates
3. Introduction of incoming officers
Adam Mosseri - Vice Chair/Chair Elect
Gavin Do - Steering Committee
Jaycie Vos - Steering Committee
4. Oral History Association Task Force
Section Program (45 minutes)
Following the business meeting, Katrina Vandeven with the Women’s March on Washington Archives Project, Sarah Loose of Amamantar y...
Dear Archives Management Section Members:
The results of the Section election are in and I am pleased to announce the leadership roster for 2018-2019. Newly elected/re-elected members of the Steering Committee appear in bold. Members will assume their responsibilities following the Section’s annual meeting on Thursday, August 16 from 4:15-5:30 p.m. in Delaware B, [Lobby Level] of the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel.
Chair: David Benjamin, University of Central Florida
Vice-chair/Chair elect: ...
Based on the election results, appointments, and the usual rotation of the chairs, here is the STHC Steering Committee membership that will be effective after the conclusion of our meeting on 27 July 2017:
Polina Ilieva - Senior Co-Chair
Eleanor (Eli) Brown - Junior Co-Chair
Todd Kosmerick - Immediate Past Chair
Gabrielle Barr - Newsletter Editor
Rebekah Kim - Web Liaison
The At-Large Steering Committee members are
Bethany Anderson
Kimberly Anderson
Andrew Lippert
Lorraine Richards...
The Recorded Sound Section's annual meeting will be held in Portland on Wednesday, July 26th, 2:30-3:45, RM. B11. Our guest speaker this year will be copyright expert, Peter Hirtle.
Peter Hirtle is an Affiliate Fellow of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University. Until his retirement from Cornell in 2015, he served as Senior Policy Advisor to the Cornell University Library with a special mandate to address intellectual property issues. Previously at Cornell, ...
SAA 2017 Oral History Section Session Description - Wednesday, July 26, 4:00-5:15 pm Update from OHS Chair-Elect Amanda PellerinThis year’s Oral History Section Session, as in years past, will be full of informative and inspiring stories on current projects and future practices for the oral history discipline. Things will kick off with a presentation of the newly-elected section members. Steven Sielaff and Jaycie Vos from the Oral History Association Task Force will discuss an exciting...
Note from the ChairGreetings, everyone! This year’s annual meeting in Portland is shaping up to be exciting, with wonderful speakers, sessions, and a range of other opportunities made possible largely by its location. I wanted to take a few moments to highlight some of the upcoming events that might be of interest to members of this section, starting with our own business meeting. While our incoming chair Amanda Pellerin has provided details on our speakers elsewhere in this newsletter, please...
Digitizing Oral History Projects at the University Archives, Texas State UniversityLindsey D. Waldenberg, Graduate Assistant, Texas State University With more than one hundred years’ worth of history to process and preserve, the University Archives (established 2006) at Texas State University has accomplished much in its eleven years of operation. One of the Archives’ most recent projects focuses on digitizing its oral history collections. Consisting of over two hundred interviews that...
Documenting Denver Activism Archives Project Undertakes a New Method of Oral HistoryKatrina Vandeven, Director, Documenting Denver Activism Archives Project Following the 2016 election, Denver, Colorado has experienced a new wave of grassroots, activist activity. Citizens who had previously not interacted with the state are taking new measures to speak to their local and national governments, often en masse, in marches and rallies with attendance in the hundreds to tens of thousands....
American Folklife Center Launches Occupational Folklife Project OnlineKelly Revak, Processing Archivist, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress The American Folklife Center is pleased to announce the online launch of the Occupational Folklife Project (OFP), a major oral history initiative of the American Folklife Center (AFC) at the Library of Congress documenting the diverse culture of contemporary American workers. The first installment features “Working the Port of Houston,” a...
