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.
· ...
Dear Colleagues,
To gather information from archivists and special collections librarians about current practices and priorities for standardized measures for public services, 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 requesting your input through a survey. Your responses will help inform the development of standardized measures for public services in archives and...
Please join the Records Management Roundtable at SAA 2015 for a series of lightning talks on various records management topics. We have a great lineup and look forward to having good discussions. The meeting will be held Friday, August 21 from 4:30 - 6:00pm in the Grand Ballroom A at the Cleveland Convention Center. If you can't attend follow along with #rmrt #saa15. The agenda is available here.
For the agenda, we will have a brief business meeting with announcements followed by these...
Please join us at the WCRT Meeting in Cleveland!
The Women's Collections Roundtable promotes the preservation and research use of records documenting women and provides a network for archivists working with related collections. Anyone interested in documenting women's history is welcome at the annual business meeting. Attendees are invited to share their successes and challenges in an open discussion about promoting access to women's collections.
Women's Collections Roundtable Meeting...
Hello fellow Regional Archival Associations Consortium representatives,
We are looking forward to seeing you at the RAAC Annual Meeting.
Time: Wednesday, August 19th, 2015
2:00-3:30 pm, during the SAA Annual Meeting.
Location: Severance (Renaissance Cleveland Hotel, 24 Public Square, Cleveland, OH 44113)
Agenda:
Introductions
Brief review of three-year plan
Subcommittee overviews / reports
RAAC/SGA symposium in 2016
Communication schedule
Subcommittee breakout sessions
Wrap-up...
The archival community recognizes the need to define a metadata schema for encoding the description of archival functions. Based on this need and demand, and with the approval of the Standards Committee for the Society of American Archivists, the Technical Subcommittee on EAC-CPF, charged to address encoding needs for archival contextual entities (starting with corporate bodies, persons and families), has initiated the work for developing a schema for Functions. A Working Group was created with...
The CMTRT Steering Committee is very pleased to debut the first iteration of the CMTRT Documentation Portal, available here:
http://www2.archivists.org/groups/collection-management-tools-roundtable/cmt-documentation-portal
Overtime we hope to make the Portal more robust by adding:
More user generated manuals and guides, particularly for non-represented or under-represented tools
Any “official” public documentation distributed by tools such as the Archivists’ Toolkit or Archon
Guidelines for...
CMTRT members:
Please join us on Wednesday August 19, 2015 from 3-4:30pm in Room 25A in the Cleveland Convention Center. We will be discussing the CMTRT Documentation Portal and we will also hear from 4 members who will present “simple solutions to common CMT challenges,” followed by Q&A. It’s going to be a great session, so we hope you can make it!
Meeting Agenda
3pm: Welcome and Announcements
3:15pm: CMTRT Documentation Portal: Purpose, Progress, and Next Steps
3:30pm: “Simple Solutions”...
Please join us in welcoming the incoming MDOR steering committee members. We are so pleased to have them on board!
Co-Chair: Arcadia Falcone (Yale University)
Steering Committee: Matt McEniry (Texas Tech University)
Steering Committee: Aaron Speight (Truman State University)
Steering Committee: Melissa Torres (University of Houston-Downtown)
The results of the Latin American and Caribbean Cultural Heritage Archives Roundtable 2015 elections are in. Welcome to our incoming Co-Chair George Apodaca and our Online Communication Liaison Lauren B. Goodley.
August 19, 20155-7 PMCleveland, OhioSAA Joint meeting between International Archival Affairs (IAA) Roundtable and Latin American and Caribbean Cultural Heritage Archives (LACCHA) Roundtable
Agenda
5:00 Welcome and Introductions (Natalie Baur and Christian Kelleher)
5:10 Introduction to the Itinerant Archivist idea, model, and project (Natalie Baur, Christian Kelleher, Francine Snyder)
5:15 Presentations by Jorge Yepez and Judy Blankenship on archives and archivology in Ecuador
(English...
Congratulations to our election winners:
Jeremy Brett, Vice Chair/Chair-Elect
Judith Wiener, Steering Committee member
They will take office following the roundtable's annual meeting in Cleveland on Friday, August 21, at 4:30 pm. Many thanks to all of the candidates for their willingness to be a part of the roundtable's leadership.
We look forward to seeing you in Cleveland!
The message below was sent by Sarah Quigley to the Issues & Advocacy listserv on Friday, July 24, 2015
Members,
I’m pleased to share the results of our recent election.
Christine George has been elected Vice-Chair. Jeremy Brett and Alison Stankrauff have both been re-elected to the Steering Committee and they’ll be joined by new members Laurel Bowen and Tara Kelley. They’ll be working closely with next year’s chair, Wendy Hagenmaier. This is a great group of professionals and I’m...
Dear STHC Roundtable Members, Get involved and make new connections at this year’s Science, Technology, and Healthcare (STHC) Roundtable meeting at the SAA Annual Meeting at the Cleveland Convention Center. As your calendar fills up with tours of Cleveland’s many wonderful museums, libraries, and archives, be sure to leave room on Friday afternoon to attend the STHC roundtable meeting! The STHC Roundtable will meet on Friday, August 21st, from 4:30 to 6:00 (check the final on-site program...
Hello Records Management Roundtable!
Are you going to be at SAA in August? Do you have a records management question or a topic you would like to share with the roundtable?
For the Annual Meeting in August, the roundtable meeting (Friday 8/21, 4:30-6:00) is collecting presentation ideas for lightning talks (about 5 minutes) after the business meeting. Along those lines, are there pressing issues, exciting developments, or otherwise unaddressed topics you’d like to discuss during the meeting?...
The Society of American Archivists Annual Meeting in Cleveland will provide an opportunity for attendees to ask questions of and learn about the work of the three joint SAA-ACRL/RBMS Joint Task Forces on Public Services Measures, Holdings Counts and Measures, and Primary Source Literacy. The lunch forum scheduled to begin at 12:15pm on Thursday, August 20th will include a brief background on the creation of the task forces and an overview of each task force before opening to attendees for...
RAAC members -- please be aware of this new threat to the NHPRC and know that we will follow up with a specific call to action once this bill hits of the House floor (might be weeks or months from now).
SAA's current news alert:
SAA learned this morning from the National Coalition for History that the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, which oversees NARA, will take up a bill tomorrow morning to address the recent data breach at the Office of Personnel Management. Committee...
CPR members are encouraged to send comments about the draft documents to CPR leadership (rob.spindler@asu.edu) or directly to CAPP, as you prefer. The documents will also be discussed at the CPR business meeting during the SAA Annual Conference.
RAAC Steering Committee meeting minutes from the June 29, 2015 meeting are available online at:
Meeting Minutes
Jennifer MotszkoJennifer graduated from the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee with Master's degrees in History and Library and Information Science. Since 2008, she has worked as the Manuscript Archivist for The University of North Carolina at Greensboro's Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives. As Manuscript Archivist, Jennifer collects materials that document the historical, political, and cultural landscape of the Piedmont Triad region and support the...
