Jennifer Day, CA
Archivist, The City of Oklahoma City, Office of City Clerk
As Chair of the Local Government Records Roundtable I hope to generate more discussion and activity on the email forum, establish goals for the coming year to create a resource/education guide for preserving government records, and start a campaign to bring more LGRRT members to the SAA annual meeting. I appreciate your participation and support. A little about my professional background and current position:
I have...
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...
This year we are electing one Vice Chair/Chair Elect and three Steering Committee members. Electronic ballots will be sent to RLRT members in early 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.
Candidate for Vice Chair/Chair Elect:
Jessica Lacher-Feldman
Steering Committee members may be appointed or elected, each for a one-year term that is renewable...
Vice Chair/Chair-elect (vote for one)
Christine George
Greetings, IART members. My name is Christine Anne George and I would like you to vote for me for Vice Chair. I’ve been on the IART Steering Committee for the past two years and am extremely proud of the work we’ve done. As a member of the Steering Committee, I’ve helped gather research that has been compiled into informative blog posts about issues, such as the news round up for the situation at the University of Oregon and an update about...
The proposed Records Management Roundtable bylaws were accepted by SAA Council at their May 2015 meeting. You can view the final bylaws in the attachment with all the changes accepted. We will be using these bylaws going forward including for the upcoming election.
Please contact Beth Cron at bethany.cron@nara.gov with any questions!
Junior Co-Chair and the Online Communication Liaison for 2015-2017
The Latin American and Caribbean Cultural Heritage Archives Roundtable (LACCHA) is ready to elect the Junior Co-Chair and the Online Communication Liaison for 2015-2017. The candidates for these positions are the following (please see bios and statements):
Candidate for Junior Co-chair:
George Apodaca
Candidate for Online Communications Liaison:
Lauren b. Goodley
Members,
Good news following the May Council meeting. Our Statement of Mission, Vision and Core Values has been officially (and unanimously) approved! Many thanks to those who offered feedback, both during last year’s business meeting and during the comment period in the fall. Some changes have been made to our original draft, most notably in the last value. The Steering Committee decided to change this value to “Dialogue” when conversations with Council revealed that we needed a...
View Todd's bio and statement: http://www2.archivists.org/groups/science-technology-and-healthcare-roundtable/2015-elections
Candidate for Vice Chair/Chair/Immediate Past Chair (1 Position)
Molly Marcusse
Biography: Molly Marcusse is the Assistant Archivist for processing and reference at the American Heritage Center of the University of Wyoming. In this position she works shifts on the reference desk, answers reference requests, processes and describes collections, and is currently working with the accessioning department to create a more efficient and effective workflow for description of new collection materials...
Please review your 2015 nominees. A list of them can be found here. Each candidate has their own candidate page with their qualifications and candidate statements.
Dear Colleagues,
The Nominating Committee of the Oral History Section seeks candidates to fill the following positions:
Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect – 1 seat
Steering Committee Member - 2 seats
Responsibilities of the officers, election and term information are detailed in the Section’s bylaws.
Please consider nominating yourself, or a colleague (with their permission), to stand for election this summer. Elected individuals will take office at the close of the Section meeting in August 2015....
Dear Colleagues,
The Nominating Committee of the Oral History Section seeks candidates to fill the following positions:
Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect – 1 seat
Steering Committee Member - 2 seats
Responsibilities of the officers, election and term information are detailed in the Section’s bylaws.
Please consider nominating yourself, or a colleague (with their permission), to stand for election this summer. Elected individuals will take office at the close of the Section meeting in August 2015....
The Archival History Roundtable is pleased to solicit nominations for four open positions: roundtable vice-chair/chair-elect and three steering committee members. Nominees must be current members of the Society of American Archivists to be considered by the Steering Committee. You may nominate a colleague or self-nominate. To nominate a colleague for either of these positions, please prepare a brief statement of their qualifications (1 paragraph). To self-nominate for either of these positions...
If you’ve got links to ingest workflows, transfer guidelines, in-house best practices, digital materials surveys, or any other formal or informal procedures that just might maybe, kinda, one day be helpful to another archivist, why not post or describe them in the comments?
Labor Archives Roundtable Colleagues,
It's the time of year when we send out the call for nominees to fill the staggered, two-year term as Labor Archives Roundtable co-chair. This term will be for 2015-2017, and will begin in August. Co-Chair Conor Casey's co-chair spot will be expiring, and he is not eligible to serve another consecutive term under the roundtable bylaws. We definitely need a new co-chair candidate. If we have more than one candidate, we have the option of holding an...
Election season is fast approaching and the Electronic Records Section has some exciting opportunities for service.
The ERS will elect a new Vice Chair/Chair Elect and two Steering Committee members, with terms to begin this coming August, following the 2015 Annual Meeting.
Vice Chair/Chair Elect (One position open)The Vice Chair serves a one-year term assisting the Chair in leading the section and representing the section in the absence of the Chair. Upon completion of the Vice Chair's term,...
The Society of American Archivists is publishing a series of case studies designed to facilitate an understanding of issues related to the management of government archives and records. They will be published electronically and distributed through the SAA website under a Creative Commons license, with copyright retained by the authors. Suggested use for these case studies includes as teaching tools in graduate archival education programs and in continuing education workshops, as well as...
The Acquisitions and Appraisal Section is seeking nominations for candidates to run for the following three positions:
Vice-Chair / Chair-Elect
Steering Committee At-Large Member (2 positions available)
In order to be nominated for these positions, candidates must be a member of the Society of American Archivists and a member of the Acquisitions and Appraisal Section. You are invited to nominate yourself or someone else for any of the above positions. Please include name, email address,...
Attendees of the 2015 SAA Annual Conference in Cleveland will have a fun opportunity to give back to the host city by participating in a charitable service project. We will be partnering with Shoes and Clothes for Kids (SC4K) to provide a volunteer opportunity for interested meeting goers.
Shoes and Clothes for Kids (SC4K) is the only non-profit organization in Greater Cleveland providing new shoes and clothes at no charge throughout the year to thousands of children in need. For the past 46...
An alumnus from Carleton College donated the first computer used by our student newspaper, The Carletonian, a late 1980’s MacintoshPlus. How would you go about salvaging the files from this device?
RAAC's Grants Development Subcommittee developed a resource to raise awareness among member regionals about grant opportunities. The Grant Resource Guide is a list of national and state-level grants, which is intended to expand and evolve over time. If you have additional grant opportunities to add to the list, please contact Kristen Chinery, Grants Development Subcommittee Chair at kristen.chinery@wayne.edu. Please share the link wherever you think appropriate!
Prepare for Hurricane and Tornado Season - share these Disaster Recovery Resources!
Find trusted information including disaster planning, recovery, funding, and training resources. Learn what’s available and what to do before disaster strikes.
This new online resource was created by the Disaster Planning and Recovery Subcommittee of the Regional Archival Associations Consortium to assist archives and other repositories in preparing for and responding to collections emergencies.
Does your...
RAAC Steering Committee meeting minutes from the May 4, 2015 meeting are available online at:
Meeting Minutes
We’re not even halfway through 2015 yet, but it appears to be a rather dramatic year for archives. From records management issues in universities to questionable email practices of public officials to laws that appear to be throwbacks to the early twentieth-century, there’s a lot going on that can affect both archives and archivists. With that in mind, the Issues & Advocacy Roundtable is launching a blog series called Archivists on the Issues and we are looking for contributors.
Entries...
