Thank you to all of our excellent candidates for standing in the 2023 Archives Management Section election. Please take some time to review their candidate statements and get to know them so you can make an informed choice.
You will be voting for:
One Vice Chair/Chair-Elect, for a two-year term;
One Secretary, for a one-year term; and
2 Steering Committee members, for three-year terms.
Ballots will be managed by SAA staff through Survey Monkey; keep an eye on your inbox for when the...
The Society of American Archivists' (SAA) Technical Subcommittee on Encoded Archival Standards (TS-EAS), in collaboration with the Encoded Archival Standards Section Steering Committee, will be hosting an April webinar to introduce proposed changes to the EAC-CPF standard.
Encoded Archival Context - Corporate bodies, Persons, and Families (EAC-CPF) is an international standard maintained by SAA for encoding contextual information about persons, corporate bodies, and families related...
In April 2019, the Joint Working Group on Issues and Awareness offered the webinar "Archival Advocacy at Home Preparing and Messaging for Visiting District Congressional Offices."
To view this webinar, please click the following link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-qUNEi-K3Vm8SIqAY0XUM3MJ-BRMnkHU/view?usp=sharing
Chapter 1: How Khmer Rouge Came to Power
With the support of the European Union and Rei Foundation Limited, Bophana Center is currently developing a smart-device application for learning Khmer Rouge history. In line with this project, Bophana Center launches a series of thematic panel discussions about Khmer Rouge history and its education with special guests.
The first edition will be dedicated to the theme of "How the Khmer Rouge came to power" which constitutes the first chapter of...
SAA’s Description Section and the Technical Subcommittee on Encoded Archival Standards recently completed a three-part webinar series on controlled vocabularies. The series' presentations focused on the purpose of data value standards, how to approach their usage, and the current encoding options in Encoded Archival Description (EAD) and Encoded Archival Context (EAC-CPF). Along with other technical aspects of their implementation, the sessions provided examples of the practical application of...
Candidates for Section Co-Chair
Ben Blake, Independent Archivist and Consultant
Candidate Statement for Co-Chair – Labor Archives SectionStatement not provided.
Steven Calco, Interim Assistant Director of the Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives at Cornell University Library
Candidate Statement for Co-Chair – Labor Archives SectionI am the Interim Assistant Director of the Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives at Cornell University Library...
This report describes our investigation into the global proliferation of Internet filtering systems manufactured by the Canadian company, Netsweeper, Inc. After undertaking a mapping of worldwide country installations, we focus in on ten country cases in which we verify that Netsweeper systems are being used to censor the Internet for subscribers of consumer Internet Service Providers, and where human rights and corporate social responsibility questions are acute.
Read more here.
These case studies are drawn from real life. They address one or more of the areas covered by the Code of Ethics for Archivists: professional judgment in carrying out basic archival tasks, protecting records authenticity, access to and use of records, professional relationships with donors or users, privacy issues, ensuring security against theft, and questions of trust in archivists’ conduct. (For information on how to submit a case study, see our Call for Case Studies.)
Case 1An Online...
The Archival History Section steering committee invites members of the section and SAA to attend a virtual lecture on Wednesday, February 25 at 12PM EST, by Joel A. Blanco-Rivera. Blanco-Rivera, adjunct professor at the National School of Conservation, Restoration and Museography in Mexico City, will be giving a talk entitled "Archival Traditions in Puerto Rico: Historical Legacies and their Impact on the Management of the Files of the Intelligence Division." The talk will provide a historical...
Heading into the new SAA year after the Annual Meeting in August, the Technical Subcommittee on Encoded Archival Standards (TS-EAS) has finalised two minor revisions of EAD3 (Tag Library) and EAD 2002 (Schema), which the Standards Committee approved before the summer break. With this, TS-EAS also would like to kick off the major revision of EAD, asking for the community’s comments to get us started.
Minor revisions - EAD3 Tag Library and EAD 2002 schema
As a precursor to the major revision,...
Thank you to our candidates for standing for the 2024 Manuscript Repositories Section election.
Section members, please review the candidate statements below and get to know the candidates so you can make an informed choice.
You will be voting for:
One Vice Chair/Chair-Elect, for a two-year term; and
Three (3) Steering Committee members (two-year terms).
Ballots are open June 24 - July 15, 2024.
Vice Chair/Chair-Elect Candidate
The following candidate is running for the Vice Chair/Chair-Elect...
Abolitionist Library Association is a collective of library workers, students, and community members taking action to divest from all forms of policing in libraries and invest in our collective liberation.We envision a world without policing or prisons. Our goal is to create libraries that are rooted in community self-determination and intellectual freedom through collective action.Read more here.
On the 43rd anniversary of the military coup in Argentina, the Argentine government of Mauricio Macri has announced that the Trump Administration will provide “the largest delivery of declassified documents, in size and file quality, to another nation”—formerly secret U.S. records relating to human rights abuses committed during under the military dictatorship between 1976 and 1983. The official transfer of the records is planned for mid-April during a visit by Argentina’s minister of justice...
Where do you see yourself professionally in 2021? Appointed to a relatively new technical subcommittee, perhaps? Working to improve and influence the role of encoded archival standards — including EAD and EAC-CPF — throughout the world? If so, now is the time to volunteer!
The Technical Subcommittee on Encoded Archival Standards (TS-EAS) is seeking volunteers to join our group.
Next year, the committee will be focused on the following major areas of work:
Finalizing a major revision of...
Five historical volumes covering the period 1863-1975 are available online in PDF format. They provide an overview of the ICRC operational and legal activities and therefore provide an ideal springboard for more in-depth research in the ICRC archives.Read more here.
Please join the Collection Management Section for its annual meeting on July 29 at 2:00 - 3:30 PM EST. This year, we will have updates from the SAA Council, a business meeting for the Collection Management section, and two presentations about collaboration and collection management.
Welcome
Council updates
Business Meeting
Presentations
The Kentucky Heritage Emergency Response Network (KHERN): Collaboration in Disaster Preparedness and Response, Ruth Bryan, University Archivist,...
Thank you to all our candidates for standing in the 2025 Design Records Section election! Members, please review their candidate statements below.
You will be voting for:
• Junior Co-Chair (Chair-Elect)
• Steering Committee member (multiple openings)
Please note that the election will be managed by SAA Governance staff - keep an eye on your inbox for voting information!
Junior Co-chair Candidate
Betsy Frederick-Rothwell, Curator & Head Archivist, Environmental Design Archives, University...
(The following was originally posted on my personal blog, Of Bicycles and Archives.)
This week the Society of American Archivists Annual Meeting is taking place in San Diego. When participants first arrived, a Dole container ship was docked quite nearby and generated a lot of excitement. It’s departure saddened many, but last night’s arrival of the Green Bay Packers at the conference hotel livened things up again. All of this I know from Twitter. Though a member of the Annual Meeting Task...
Registration is now open!
Join the Collection Management Section for a spring webinar panel on April 28, 2025 from 3:00-4:30 pm Eastern. This panel will feature presentations on setting strategic priorities and decision-making for collection management with a focus on tools and workflows.
Steven Gentry of the University of Michigan, will present a weighted scoring model that informs processing prioritization. He will talk about the project’s inception, an overview of the model, its various...
The Technical Subcommittee for Encoded Archival Standards (TS-EAS) is responsible for the ongoing maintenance of EAD and EAC-CPF as well as the development of future companion standards, such as Encoded Archival Context for Functions.
We are seeking self-nominations from the archival community to join TS-EAS. We are seeking to fill one international and two SAA based vacancies in TS-EAS during the fall of 2024. We seek new members through open calls and will evaluate all applications.
Anyone...
If you weren't at SAA you might have missed the presentation about the Helen Keller Archive digitization project and the important project to make it more accessible. Check out this post with session highlights at the American Foundation for the Blind blog.
Look out for more SAA content coming up on the Human Rights Archives Section blog!
The Encoded Archival Standards (EAS) Section is seeking candidates for three positions:
One co-chair for a two-year term (2023-2025) -- first year as junior co-chair and second year as senior co-chair
Two Steering Committee members for a two-year term (2023-2025)
We welcome early career candidates, as well as more seasoned archivists, including those who have held EAS Section leadership positions in the past. The time commitment for Steering Committee members is roughly 2-5 hours per month,...
Vice Chair/Chair-Elect
Justin Kovar is the Audio and Moving Image Archivist for the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History at the University of Texas at Austin and has been at the Center since 2011. Previous to that he was a Graduate Research Assistant for the University's Historical Music Recordings Collections and intern for the Texas Archive of the Moving Image. Justin earned his MSIS Degree from the School of Information at the University of Texas at Austin, and is an ACA certified...
Visit the PLASC Blog, The Finding Aid, to read a new post about establishing a digitization memory lab at Midwest Genealogy Center at the Mid-Continent Public Library!
The Memory Lab is a tool that democratizes access to the equipment and knowledge needed to archive personal collections at no cost.
Read the full Story: Demystifying DIY Digitization - An inside look at the public library memory lab
Links Below!
Dear members of the Encoded Archival Standards community,
TS EAS is seeking to fill two international and two SAA based vacancies in TS EAS during the fall of 2021. We seek new members through open calls and will evaluate all applications. There might be an on-line call performed after we have gone through the applications.
TS EAS meets four times a year (committee members must attend at least two of these) and also has smaller teams working with specific tasks like the maintenance of the...
