Online Portal for Oklahoma Native Art of the Oklahoma Oral History Research Program, Oklahoma State University LibrarySarah Milligan, Head, Oklahoma Oral History Research Program and Associate Professor, Oklahoma State University Library The Oklahoma Native Artist oral history project, a project of the Oklahoma Oral History Research Program (OOHRP) at the Oklahoma State University Library since 2010, is uniquely stand-alone. It is not tied to a particular art project, exhibition, or collection...
The 2017 Chapter Oral History Project, Institute of the Sister of Mercy of the Americas Maureen Skorupa Keyes, Sisters of Mercy Mid-Atlantic Community Archives, Merion, PA The Sisters of Mercy Archives Team, consisting of archivists from the Mercy Heritage Center, located in Belmont, North Carolina, and community archivists from the Mid-Atlantic Community in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and the West-Midwest Community in Omaha, Nebraska, has initiated the 2017 Chapter Oral...
The Founders of American Sign Language Interpreters and Interpreter Educators
Carolyn Ball, Executive Director, VRS Interpreting Institute (VRSII)
On June 16, 1964 the Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf (RID) was founded in Muncie, Indiana at Ball State College. The establishment of RID was not planned, nor was it expected. After RID was established, the small membership was scattered across the country and there were very few contacts made between members, apart from the occasional...
The Baylor University Institute for Oral History announces its upcoming online introductory oral history workshop available on two consecutive Wednesday mornings, February 7 and 14, 2018. The six-hour, interactive training attracts newcomers to oral history from around the world. Baylor’s award-winning oral historians equip participants to get started using oral history methodology through instruction on project design, ethical and legal considerations, recording equipment, interviewing...
Baylor University Institute for Oral History Announces Launch of "Survivors of Genocide" Project Website
Baylor University Institute for Oral History
The Baylor University Institute for Oral History (BUIOH) is proud to announce the launch of its newest project website, "Survivors of Genocide." From May 2015 through October 2016, the Institute conducted fourteen oral histories with survivors of the genocides in Cambodia, Rwanda/Burundi, Bosnia, and Darfur. This work was contracted through a...
The 2017 issue of Archival Elements contains the following articles:
Message from the Co-chairs
Science, Technology, and Health Care Related Sessions in Portland
Unsung Heroes of STEM and Medicine
News from Our Members
Asking the Archivists
Brief Submissions
Short Contributions
Feature Articles
About the Authors
Steering Committee Members
PDFs of all the newsletters are here.
The business meeting portion of the Military Archives Section's gathering will focus on the issues of elections, the annual staff ride, the military archival directory, and the future of the Section.
After that, we'll have two presentations: about military classification and how to use your collections to embrace World War I during its centennial year.
1. Classification: what it is, the impact of over-classification, and what MAS can do to contribute to SAA's overall objective of greater...
Pre-Revolutionary Era
Gelfand, Aleksandr. “As Vast as the Sea”: An Overview of Archives and the Archival Profession in Russia from the Time of Ivan the Terrible to World War I.” American Archivist 79, no. 2 (Fall–Winter 2016): 230-253. Available with subscription or SAA membership: https://doi.org/10.17723/0360-9081-79.2.230
Soviet Era
Epstein, Fritz T. "Archives Administration in the Soviet Union." American Archivist 20, no. 2 (Apr 1957): 131-45. Freely available at: http://americanarchivist...
Join the Electronic Records Section and the Records Management Section for a panel on managing email with Chris Prom (Task Force on Technical Approaches to Email Archives), Sarah Demb (Harvard University’s approach to email appraisal), and Camille Tyndall Watson (Transforming Online Mail with Embedded Semantics).
We will be meeting Wednesday, July 26 from 4:00pm - 5:15pm.
Find below an announcement from Lauren Gaylord, SNAP’s Blog Coordinator:
The SAA Annual Meeting is quickly approaching! If you’re one of the lucky ones able to go, please consider summarizing a session for your #SAALeftBehind colleagues who can’t attend this year. Knowledge is power and sharing is caring!
We’ve marked sessions that are of particular interest to SNAP members, but the blog team will happily accept summaries for any sessions, events, section meetings, and other conference...
Vote now in the 2017 SNAP elections! Check your inbox (and spam folders) for your unique email link to the online ballot. Voting for the new SNAP officers and Steering Committee members will close on July 12, 2017.
The approved revisions are minor. The Council has agreed upon measures to call all sections and roundtables Sections; to call each Section's unique procedures Standing Rules; to designate Section IX. Sections of the SAA Governance Manual as the SAA Section ByLaws, that is, the basic procedures that apply to all Sections; and to include updated language about those procedures in the Governance, Elections, and Amendments sections of each Section's Standing Rules.
The proposed revisions...
Section Members:
By now you should have received an email invitation to cast your ballot in the Archives Management Section election. If you don’t see one, please check you spam/junk folder as sometimes emails from SurveyMonkey will end up there.
Also, each voter is given a unique link to the ballot, so please do not forward the link to others.
Here is the link to the candidate statements: https://www2.archivists.org/groups/archives-management-section/archives-management-section-2017-election...
This year we are electing one Vice Chair/Chair Elect and three Steering Committee members. Electronic ballots will be sent to members in July. The Vice Chair/Chair Elect serves a two-year term. Year 1: Serves as Vice Chair and participates as a member of the Steering Committee. Year 2: Serves as Chair of the Roundtable.
Steering Committee members may be appointed or elected, each for a one-year term that is renewable for up to three consecutive years at the discretion of the incoming Chair.
Meet our wonderful slate of candidates for the 2017 WCS election. The two individuals receiving the most votes will serve as co-Vice Chairs of the roundtable in 2017-2018 and co-Chairs of the roundtable in 2018-2019.
Annalise Berdini
Biography
Annalise Berdini is the Digital Archivist at UC San Diego Library Special Collections and Archives. Previously, she has worked as a Manuscripts/Archives Processor for UCSD Special Collections and Archives, and at various institutions in Philadelphia as...
New LEADERS of the Archival History Section and the STANDING RULES REFERENDUM will be decided, starting Monday June 26 and ending July 10. You'll receive a unique ballot from SurveyMonkey. Please do not share the link with others. In case you do not receive your ballot next week, please check your spam box and filter settings. If you have trouble receiving or casting a ballot, please email Felicia Owens.
According to the Governance Manual, all those who are active section members as of June...
Referendum Summary
In addition to voting for chair-elect and steering committee candidates, section members will be asked to approve revised Standing Rules (previously known as By-Laws; more about that change below) for the College and University Archives Section as part of this year's election process. The referendum will appear on the ballot members receive via SurveyMonkey sometime between June 26 and 28.
Wondering what changes you'll be voting for? A marked-up copy of the old By-Laws is...
Hannah Jellen
Hannah Jellen is the Interim Manuscripts Curator at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library (ALPLM) in Springfield, Illinois. She is a graduate of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) where she received her BM in Musicology and her MSLIS. She is returning to UIUC in August of 2017 to pursue an MM in Musicology where she will study American popular and folk music. Prior to her position at ALPLM, Hannah worked at the Sousa Archives and Center for American Music...
The SAA-ACRL/RBMS Joint Task Force on the Development of Standardized Statistical Measures for Public Services in Archival Repositories and Special Collections Libraries submitted the final draft version of the standard to the RBMS Executive Committee and SAA Standards Committee on June 9, 2017 for review and eventual approval. The submission will be reviewed by ACRL-RBMS and SAA over the coming months. The task force recognizes that while this review is underway, archivists and special...
Survey Monkey emails for voting will be generated between June 26 and June 28. Watch for them! If you do not get one, and it's not in your spam folder, or if you have any other problems casting your ballot, please contact fowens@archivists.org.
Slate for the 2017 Preservation Section Election
Vice-Chair/Chair Elect
We have 1 candidate for 1 position.
Eve Neiger
Member-At-Large
We have 3 candidates for 1 position.
Fletcher Durant
Summer Espinoza
Rhonda Rhinehart
Scroll down for the candidate's...
Candidates for Vice Chair/Chair Elect
Lauren Algee
Biographical Statement
I have been Digital Curation Librarian for DC Public Libraries Special Collections since 2013, where I manage creation, preservation, and access for digital local history collections. I proposed and supervised the National Digital Stewardship Residency project that created the DCPL Memory Lab, a public digitization preservation lab and resource and am now part of the team bringing the Memory Lab model to other public...
SAA Recorded Sound Section 2017/2018 Elections
Nominee Bios and Statements
Vice Chair/Chair Elect
Sarah Cunningham: Sarah Cunningham is the Audiovisual Archivist at the LBJ Presidential Library branch of the National Archives (2003 – present) and is on the faculty at the Graduate School of Information at the University of Texas at Austin. She teaches the Introductory and Advanced classes in Audio Preservation.
Cunningham’s work revolves around digitization projects, the preservation and...
