Last call for nominations! Please send any nominations by Thursday, May 31st!
Are you seeking an opportunity to expand your network and get further involved in the business archives community? If so, come join the Steering Committee and see what the fun is all about! Joining the Steering Committee is a small-time commitment, providing you with valuable experience as you contribute to vital services for your colleagues.
Please consider nominating yourself or a colleague for one of these...
The Military Archives Section WANTS YOU to join the Steering Committee (apologies to Uncle Sam)! With a minimal monthly time commitment, you can develop your leadership skills and enhance your professional network of fellow archivists. The only requirement is that you are a member of SAA.
Please consider nominating yourself or a colleague for one of these positions:
Vice-Chair/Chair Elect (2 year commitment, as Vice-Chair and Chair): Serves as acting chair in the absence of the chair;...
by Dave J. Moore, Brand Archivist and Historian
Three dollars could buy you a good sized order of overalls at the turn of the 20th century. This check was submitted to Hamilton Carhartt & Co., based in Detroit, from D.L. Powers of Jonesville, Michigan in 1898.
120 years later, Powers Clothing is still going strong… and still selling Carhartt. When you have retail partners that old, you know you must be doing something right. Financial records like this are just one example of the materials...
The Society of American Archivists Museum Archives Section welcomes your comments on a draft of revised Museum Archives Guidelines. These guidelines have been created by the Section to assist all types of museums in the development and administration of archival programs.
You can view the draft Guidelines here and submit feedback by accessing this survey: https://forms.gle/xNp3Ad9QRYwHokX97
Please note that you can sign off on the Guidelines as written using the radio buttons in the first...
A recording of the annual meeting of the Technical Subcommittee on Encoded Archival Description (TS-EAS) is now available to the community on SAA’s YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcl1AzCciZs. The meeting provides an overview of work from the 2023-2024 term, including a review of the Encoded Archival Description (EAD) revision process as well as work on associated standards. Additional updates about these standards revisions are expected in the coming months, and will be...
The Technical Subcommittee on Encoded Archival Standards is pleased to release Encoded Archival Context - Corporate bodies, Persons, Families (EAC-CPF) 2.0, a draft updated version of the standard for public review and comment. To ensure the greatest possible input from EAC-CPF users around the world, the subcommittee is calling for comments on the proposed changes to the current version, EAC-CPF 2010. The deadline for comments on the change proposals is June 30, 2021.
The process for a major...
The Government Records Case Studies are drawn from real life and address challenges faced by archives responsible for government records, including but not limited to: advocacy, (re)appraisal, custody issues, starting a records program, digitization projects, born-digital records, preservation, access, accountability and transparency. The goal is to develop a set of cases from a broad range of repositories, representing all levels of government: local, state, provincial, territorial, tribal,...
Comments Sought
Draft version 2 of “Standardized Statistical Measures and Metrics for Public Services in Archival Repositories and Special Collections Libraries” is now open for comment through Friday, February 17, 2017.
The proposed standard is available here on the SAA website or a PDF of the document can also be downloaded below. Provide your comments on any aspect of the proposed standard by commenting on individual pages of the document as presented here on the SAA website. You do not...
The Local Government Records Roundtable will meet in Cleveland on Friday August 21 at 4:30
The meeting will include a presentation from a government archivist working in the Cleveland area, Judith Cetina:
Judith G. Cetina has a BA (1971), MA (1974) and Ph.D. (1977) in History from Case Western University; and completed fellowships at the Case Western Reserve University Archives and the Western Reserve Historical Society. She has been with the Cuyahoga County Archives since 1977 and has been...
SAA's Committee on Research, Data, and Assessment (CORDA) is thrilled to announce that SAA has entered into a memorandum of agreement with the Odum Institute for Research in Social Science at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to establish the "SAA Dataverse"!
Launching later this year, the SAA Dataverse will support active data reuse and reevaluation on behalf of the entire archival community and will welcome data deposits from our designated communities.
In celebration of "Love...
Thank you to everyone who was able to join us at the SAA 2022 Annual Meeting for the conversation lounge. Here are the slides -- which include links to the google form for your feedback on the beta version of the Research and Innovation Roadmap.
New V1.2 of the SAA Research and Innovation Roadmap -- an active and evolving document, developed by the SAA Committee on Research, Data and Assessment, and asserts the critical research needs and gaps that have been identified by members across the profession. The roadmap reflects an analysis of current and emerging research, assessment, and data needs, to frame and inform work the profession might undertake in the years to come.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1BIFuSyKWOoPPNLHFiEwvRH9pC-...
The roadmap is an active and evolving document, developed by the SAA Committee on Research, Data and Assessment, and represents research interests that have been identified by members across the profession. The roadmap will help shape priorities and opportunities that advance broader professional interests.
Adopted SAA Research and Innovation Roadmap, v 1.4
Your feedback is sought on Roadmaps ongoing development -- please share your input using this survey.
The SAA Committee on Research, Data, and Assessment (CORDA) will be hosting our annual business meeting on Thursday, July 28th from 4:00-5:30 pm EST/3:00-4:30 pm CST/2:00-3:30 pm MST/1:00-2:30 PST.
VIDEO RECORDING HERE
https://www.pathlms.com/saa/events/2923/event_sections/12433/video_presentations/239422
CORDA is finishing an action-packed year and the year ahead looks to be equally ambitious. Many of its early objectives are coming into fruition, and committee members are eager to...
Version 1.3 of the SAA Research and Innovation Roadmap -- an active and evolving document, developed by the SAA Committee on Research, Data and Assessment, and asserts the critical research needs and gaps that have been identified by members across the profession. The roadmap reflects an analysis of current and emerging research, assessment, and data needs, to frame and inform work the profession might undertake in the years to come.
Roadmap 1.3
FEEDBACK WELCOME! Please share your feedback on...
Research and Innovation Roadmap Update 1.4, adopted by SAA Council & Updated July 2023.
The Diversity Committee of the Society of American Archivists (SAA) recognizes that Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility (DEIA) programs and initiatives are essential to our work as archivists. Such programs and initiatives have been under reenergized, politically motivated attack across the United States since Inauguration Day, when the Executive Order, “Ending Radical and Wasteful Government DEI Programs and Preferencing” was issued by the White House. This was followed by “Ending...
The Key Contact subcommittee recently revised the FAQ document and it is now available via the link under About the Subcommittee.
Statistics about Key Contact/SAA membership distribution is now available under About this Subcommittee.
Standards Annual Report, 2022-2023
If you missed the event, or you attended and did not have a chance to look at and contribute to the shared document created by the TS-GRD, please do so! The document will be open until September 30, 2021.
The Technical Subcommittee on Describing Archives: A Content Standard (TS-DACS) recently requested feedback on its proposal to adopt two new single-level minimum required descriptive elements:
· 8.2. Rights Statement for Archival Description
· 13.10. Rights Statement for Archival Authority Records
As noted in the request, these elements were proposed by Alston Coburn (East Carolina University) and Patrick Galligan (Rockefeller Archive Center). They would require archival...
TS-DACS is thrilled to announce that SAA Council unanimously approved their proposal for two new required elements for DACS.
Chapter 8 (Description Control) will now include required element 8.2, Rights Statement for Archival Description. Chapter 13 (Authority Record Management) will include a new required element 13.10, Rights Statement for Archival Authority Records. Chapters 1 and 9 will also be updated to reflect the new required elements.
TS-DACS will begin work to add the new...
Please join the Technical Subcommittee on Describing Archives: A Content Standard (TS-DACS) for our annual business meeting on Monday, June 26, 2023 from 12-1:30 PM (EST). This meeting will be held via Webex. Please remember to register for the event through the SAA Connect event site.
There are no costs to attend the session and it is open to all; SAA membership is not required.
The annual meeting will include updates from TS-DACS on a variety of work, including TS-DACS educational videos...
