Given the use of social media by people living in areas of armed conflict or severe repression, social media platforms have become accidental and unstable archives for human rights content. The last two decades have witnessed a fundamental shift in how people around the world communicate. During this period, the proliferation of smartphones and the rise of social media platforms have enabled increased identification, collection, and sharing of digital information related to international crimes...
The Technical Subcommittee on Encoded Archival Standards (TS-EAS), in collaboration with the Encoded Archival Standards Section Steering Committee, is excited to share the recordings of two webinars held in November 2022 that introduce the new version of 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 to...
The Donald Peterson Student Travel Award given by the SAA was established in 2005, supporting students and recent graduates from graduate archival programs within North America to attend SAA’s Annual Meeting. The goal of the scholarship is to stimulate greater participation in SAA events, such as presenting research or joining a committee or section.
Inoue is the Pratt Archives and Digital Initiatives graduate assistant. In this role, she processes archival collections, digitizes black and...
The Steering Committee of the Archival History Section is pleased to invite you to our annual meeting on July 31 from 1:00pm to 2:30pm CT (beginning 2:00 pm EST, 12:00 pm MT, 11:00 am PT). We will report on business of the year and present the Archival History Article Awards. Then, we will hear from invited speaker, Christopher Livingston, Director, Historical Research Center at California State University, Bakersfield about the current work at the HRC. Below is a biography and summary of his...
Nominee for Communications Manager (1-year term)
Brenna Edwards, Manager for Digital Archives, Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin
Having served in multiple roles on several Society of American Archivists sections, I am interested in the Communications Manager position with the Web Archiving Section steering committee because coordinating communications in a timely manner is the key to having successful events and section health. My knowledge of figuring out the right time...
Cliff Hight, Candidate for VP/Chair-Elect
Biographical statement:
Cliff Hight has been the university archivist at Kansas State University Libraries since 2011. His primary stewardship is the preservation and accessibility of historically-significant university records in all formats. He holds an MSIS in archives and records administration and an MA in history from the University at Albany, State University of New York. He was the archivist/curator at the Royal Gorge Regional Museum and...
The Technical Subcommittee on Encoded Archival Standards (TS-EAS) is pleased to release the second draft of Encoded Archival Description (EAD) 4.0 for public review and comment.
This version includes additionally proposed changes based on suggestions and comments received from the community during the first call for comments, which ran between April and July 2024. The subcommittee would like to thank those who contributed to the review with their comments and invites all EAD users around the...
Co-Chair (Three Year Committment, One Vacancy):
Ashten Vassar-Cain, Project Archivist, Pennhurst Memorial & Preservation Alliance
Bio:
I am a community archivist focusing on Disability History and Culture. I am a current MLIS student at Simmons University School of Library and Information Science. I hold a previous Master's degree in Human Rights from the University of Connecticut, where I focused on atrocity crimes, state violence, and disability institutionalization. This perspective...
Holly Deakyne
Processing Archivist, Special Collections Department, Library, Museums & Press, University of Delaware
I have worked in numerous archival settings, primarily as a processing archivist for personal and professional papers, including at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Ohio University, the Getty Research Institute, and the New-York Historical Society. I hold an MLS from Pratt Institute with a specialization in archives. In my current position, I am appraising, arranging, and...
On April 9th we hosted Rachel Taketa and Amanda Norman from the Opioid Industry Documents Archive for an incredible discussion about their work making opioid industry records available for researchers, lawyers, and the public.
Resources and the recording is now available on our Archival Elements Blog.
Thank you to Rachel and Amanda!
Below are links to three of the most recent stories from the 20th Century Fox Archive's blog series.
Thank you to all of our excellent candidates for standing in the 2026 Accessioning, Acquisitions, & Appraisal 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 (three-year term); and
Two Steering Committee members (two-year terms).
Ballots will be managed by SAA staff through Survey Monkey; keep an eye on your inbox for when the ballot opens!
Vice Chair/...
(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...
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 to...
The Technical Subcommittee on Encoded Archival Standards is holding an open working meeting on Thursday, August 13, 2020 at 9 AM PDT / 10 AM MDT / 11 AM CDT / 12 PM EDT / 5 PM BST / 6 PM CEST/ 2 AM Friday AEST (https://sched.co/dQd6).
The meeting is open for all to attend, and will cover our new outreach work, the on-going revision of Encoded Archival Context--Corporate bodies, Persons, and Families (EAC-CPF), and an update on current Encoded Archival Description (EAD) work. We will...
Society of American Archives, Archival History Section,
Archival History Article Award
Washington DC, 16 August 2018
Patricia Kennedy Grimsted,"Pan-European Displaced Archives in the Russian Federation: Still Prisoners of War on the 70th Anniversary of V-E Day"in Displaced Archives edited by James Lowry.
Displaced Archives in Russia from the Second World War:
Remarks by Patricia Kennedy Grimsted
I am personally very honored by the Archival History Article Award for my chapter on displaced...
Thank you to all our excellent candidates for standing in the 2026 Performing Arts 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 Co-chair, for a two-year term; and
Ballots will be managed by SAA staff through Survey Monkey; keep an eye on your inbox for when the ballot opens!
Co-Chair Candidates
The following candidates are running for the Co-Chair position:
Candidate Name: ...
The Technical Subcommittee for Encoded Archival Standards (TS-EAS) at the Society of American Archivists (SAA) invites you to engage with a draft of the new version of the Encoded Archival Description standard, EAD 4.0, between December 2023 and February 2024, ahead of the public call for comments. For this activity, we are specifically looking towards archival aggregators as well as software providers and developers.
Having started the major revision process with various engagement...
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,...
Please join the Archival History Section on Thursday, May 21st at 2PM Eastern / 1PM Central / 12PM Mountain / 11AM Pacific for our annual meeting!
This meeting will cover:
A summary of this past year's section business, including recaps of our winter and spring lectures and the launch of the Archival History Section writing group;
An update from our SAA section liaison;
The announcement of the Archival History Article Award winner;
An update on the 2026 elections and greetings...
“The pandemic has been a horror,” says Rachel Mattson, Curator of the Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies. One of the projects that has kept the Tretter staff connected, supported, engaged — and able to support a wide range of research inquiries — throughout the pandemic is a project organized around a Twin Cities public access television show, GAZE-TV.GAZE-TV ran from 1986 until Pride season 1992, and then as Green And Yellow (GAY) TV until Pride...
CALM seeks participants from across LAMs who will contribute to a discussion about how well we are doing (or not doing) on the various fronts of employment, continuing education, collection development, descriptive practices, etc. We seek participants with different perspectives - from those new to the profession to experienced professionals and anyone in between. This panel will address what we are doing well and what we can do better in order for LAMs to become more inclusive environments...
VICE CHAIR/CHAIR-ELECT (Select 1)
Danielle SangalangArchivist and Records Manager, Massachusetts College of Art and Design
Biography:
Danielle Sangalang is the Archivist and Records Manager at Massachusetts College of Art and Design. She holds a Master’s degree in Library and Information Science and History from Simmons University. Danielle is an active member of the Digital Commonwealth Board of Directors and Past President (July 2019-June 2020). In 2020, she had the opportunity to help guide...
We hope to see you at the 2023 Annual Meeting of the College & University Archives Section! You must be registered to attend. Please follow this link to get registered. We hope to see you there!
2023 Election: Candidate Statements
Thank you to all of the candidates for the 2023 Description Section election. Please read below for candidate biographies and statements of interest.
You will be voting for:
Vice Chair/Chair-Elect
One (1) Steering Committee Member-at-Large
Ballots will be managed by SAA staff; keep an eye on your inbox for when the ballot opens!
Vice Chair / Chair-Elect
Betts Coup
Bio:
Betts Coup is the Interim Head, Manuscript Section at Houghton Library at Harvard...
