We have one candidate for EAD Roundtable Co-Chair this year and three candidates for one Steering Committee Member position. Please read the following candidate statements and don't forget to cast your votes once the electronic ballots go out!
Co-Chair candidate:
Ruth Kitchin Tillman
Metadata Librarian, NASA Goddard Library (Cadence Group)
Education and Experience: Ruth Kitchin Tillman earned her MLS with a focus in archives from the University of Maryland in December...
This year we are electing a junior Co-Chair and two steering committee members,
Click Here to learn more about each nominee.
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Agenda:
1. Subcommittee reports
2. Final version of 3-year plan
3. Archival Outlook article draft
4. Discussion of RAAC activities at SAA in August
5. How to handle new membership year and required subcommittee participation
The Human Rights Archives Roundtable is seeking nominations for the positions of Co-Chair and Web Liaison, both 2 year terms. Help us plan for the coming year, engage members, manage our web presence, and organize our participation in the annual meeting. If you are interested, please submit a brief bio and candidate statement to Theresa Polk at tepolk@gmail.com by Friday, May 30.
For more information about the Human Rights Archives Roundtable, visit our Wordpress blog or our Twitter account, @...
The Research Libraries Roundtable is requesting nominations for Vice Chair/Chair Elect! The Vice Chair/Chair Elect serves a two-year term, serving in year one as Vice Chair and in year two as Chair.
The mission of the RLRT is to promote discussion and collaboration on initiatives and research projects that affect archivists working in a research library context.
Here’s the information we need for each nomination:
candidate name
brief bio
statement of interest
photo (optional...
The Archival History Roundtable invites nominations for individuals to help lead the Roundtable's activities for 2014-2015. We are seeking candidates for the following positions:
Vice Chair
Steering Committee member (three positions available)
The Vice Chair/Chair elect serves a one year term as Vice Chair (2014-2015) and then will serve as Chair for 2015-2016. Steering Committee members serve a one year term.
Candidates must be members of SAA and the Archival History Roundtable. This is a...
Want to make a difference? Want some great networking opportunities while you're at it? This is the second call for nominations! The deadline is May 30th, less than a week away.
We have a 3-year opening and one single year opening on the MDOR steering committee, and a 2-year opening for the Co-Chair position (with a possible 3rd year on the steering committee).
Who's interested? Feel free to nominate yourself. If you nominate someone else, please be sure they are amenable to serving.
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Check out WAR's blog, which features interviews, book reviews, announcements, and news.
In honor of Preservation Week this week, the Section's Poster is now available. Please download and share!
How to deny scholars access to historical archives in the digital age
China's Foreign Ministry curtails access to declassified historic archives
China restricts academic access to historical archives
RAAC Steering Committee meeting minutes from the April 8, 2014 meeting are available online at:
Meeting Minutes
Agenda:
1. Updates on obtaining volunteers/ which subcommittees still need volunteers? (5 minutes)
2. Subcommittee reports required one week prior to call for all future conference calls (5 minutes)
3. Updates from Subcommittees re: contacting SAA component groups (10 minutes)
4. Updates from chairs re: Archival Outlook, SAA Conference RAAC meeting, Steering Committee meeting at SAA (5 minutes)
5. Discussion of what to do with survey data (5 minutes)
6. Discussion of 3-year...
The Technical Subcommittee for Encoded Archival Description (TS-EAD) and the Schema Development Team welcome comments on the gamma release of the EAD3 schema. This will be the final draft release prior to the official release of EAD3 this spring.
The gamma release includes a significantly revised and improved Relax NG schema. A W3C schema version is also available for testing. New to this release is a separate schema that does not include the <relations> element, available as both Relax...
The Regional Archival Associations Consortium (RAAC) Subcommittees are looking for volunteers for their first projects!
To volunteer, please contact the Subcommittee Chair listed after each Subcommittee description.
For any other questions regarding the RAAC, please contact the RAAC Co-Chairs Rachel Chatalbash (rachel.chatalbash@yale.edu) and Amanda Focke (afocke@rice.edu).
Advocacy Subcommittee (Tessa Beers, New England Archivists, chair)
Description: The role of the...
The Winter 2014 issue of Descriptive Notes, the newsletter of the Description Section, is now available online.
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Create partnerships to bring educational opportunities to your area.
Start a local mentoring program.
Participate in a consortium for enhanced purchasing power.
Establish a local or regional speaker’s bureau.
Develop local or regional mini-conferences.
Find travel and carpooling companions, as well as roommates, for conferences, workshops and other events.
Share venues and presenters for public programming.
Cooperate on collecting a particular historical topic, especially one that...
Meeting Agenda:
1. Presentation of microsite web plan (Lynette) (5-10 minutes)
2. Discussion of coordination with other SAA component groups (5-10 minutes)
3. Discussion of short-term goals for each subcommittee (each subcommittee description was unanimously approved by online Steering Committee vote) (30 minutes)
4. Call for volunteers: procedure and timeline (5 minutes)
5. Goals for co-chairs re: creation of strategic three-year plan (5-10 minutes)
RAAC Steering Committee meeting minutes are online now at:
Meeting minutes
Highlights include the creation of terms and structure of the steering committee, the assignment of chairs to sub-committees which align with our Statement of Purpose. These chairs will be calling for general RAAC member participation in our upcoming efforts starting in January 2014. Next Steering Committee meeting to held in early January 2014, with work going on in the background until then.
Questions:
use the RAAC...
About this blog
The Schedule (http://saarmrt.wordpress.com/) is your source for news about the Society of American Archivists Records Management Section. Our intention with this blog is to provide announcements, learning and education opportunities, and chances to share knowledge with other members of the RMRT in a more dynamic way than we could achieve with the SAA-provided microsite alone. (The microsite will still be the section’s repository for meeting minutes, reports and other...
The RAAC steering committee will hold its first meeting on November 7, 2013 at 2:00 EST, over the phone, with results to be shared on this site.
Meeting Agenda:
introductions (5 minutes)
determine steering committee structure (i.e. nominate steering committee chair or co-chairs; webmaster; chairs of ad-hoc committees, etc.) (10-15 minutes)
self-identify steering committee members serving for 2 vs. 3 year terms (5 minutes)
discuss plan for splitting other (non-...
On Friday, October 11th the Issues & Advocacy Roundtable sent a Letter to Target Corporation's CEO, Gregg Steinhafel, regarding the recent annoucement that Target had discontinued its corporate archives. Please read the letter attached below.
On Wednesday, October 16th the Issues & Advocacy Roundtable received a Response from Target Corporation's, Senior Vice President, Communications and Reputation Management, Susan Kahn regarding changes in Target's Archives. Please read the...
