Dear IAAS and SAA members,
One of our Members-at-Large, Jenifer Monger, was elected the new International Archival Affairs Section (IAAS) Junior Co-Chair! As a result, one of our three Members-at-Large positions is now open for a special election. This position will be at a bare minimum around five hours per month, but it can be more dependent on what projects the individual would like to take on. We are always eager to hear about new and exciting ideas for the section! This is a three-year...
Joint meeting of the Museum Archives (MAS) and Science, Technology, and Health Care (STHC) Sections
23 July 2025, 11:00 - 12:30 CST
Attendance: 54
I. Welcome and Introductions
II. SAA Council updates (Eira Tansey)
○ Statements in response to current events available on SAA site
○ Next leadership meeting: September 25th
III. STHC Business*
IV. MAS Chair’s Report (Laura Uglean-Jackson)
○ Thanks to 2024-2025 MAS leadership: Kelly Schulz (Newsletter Editor), Lena Hansen (Web Liaison...
Thank you to all of our excellent candidates for standing in the 2025 STHC Section election. Please review the candidate statements and get to know them so you can make an informed choice.
You will be voting for:
One Junior Co-Chair (two-year term)
One Member-At-Large Steering Committee Member (three-year term)
Ballots will be managed by SAA staff, so please keep an eye on your inbox for when the ballot opens!
Junior Co-Chair Candidate
J.E. Molly Seegers
Director, The Arthur H. Aufses,...
Dear IAAS Members and SAA Community,
Please give a warm welcome to our newest International Archival Affairs Section (IAAS) Junior Co-Chair: Jenifer Monger!
Thank you to all who voted, and a big thank you to all the candidates. We really appreciate your passion and desire to contribute to the IAAS! As Ms. Monger was previously a Member-at-Large, we will be having an upcoming special election to fill our open Member-at-Large position. Please keep your eye out for future information regarding...
Colleagues,
The SAA Technical Subcommittee on Encoded Archival Standards (TS-EAS) will be holding an open meeting on the revision of Encoded Archival Description (EAD) on Thursday, August 14, 2025 from 12:30–2 PM ET. This community forum will conclude a four-day planning meeting on standards revision, which will focus on discussing and resolving outstanding issues from the second call for comments for the EAD 4 draft.
The open meeting will be held on Zoom. If you would like to attend, please...
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...
Please join the Metadata and Digital Object Section in welcoming the following individuals to our 2025-2026 MDOS Steering Committee:
Junior Co-Chair:
Warren Lambert, Digitization Specialist / University of Kansas Libraries
Steering Committee Members:
Tyler Cline, Digital Archivist / UNC Charlotte
Brenna Edwards, Manager for Digital Archives / Harry Ransom Center
Ugoma Smoke, Research Assistant in Native and Indigenous Archives and Linked Data / University of Maryland
Michelle Witt,...
The Business Archives Section is opening a position for an Early Career Member on the section steering committee. This position is intended for individuals starting out in the field to have an opportunity to be mentored by section leaders, and expand their leadership skills and resources. Immediate responsibilities will include supporting the Newsletter, the Quarterly Conference Calls, and the Education Director, but may be tailored to individual interests. This position is open to students and...
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...
SAA's Technical Subcommittee for Encoded Archival Standards (TS-EAS) is pleased to highlight the following new resources in our GitHub repository, following on the SAA 2020 annual conference:
We've updated our procedural handbook, to include a set of design principles that we began to formulate in early 2020 -- and codified at the conference. The design principles reflect recent decisions and will guide future discussions for the development of EAD, EAC-CPF, and any other schemas that might be...
We're ramping up for another edition of the Business Archives Section Quarterly (BASQ)!
This time we'll be dealing with the ways in which corporate archives engage with those outside of their businesses. Creating meaningful connections with external audiences is a major way for business archives to increase their profile and continue to prove the importance of their role in the company.
How do you interact with external audiences? We want to hear about it! Some examples could include:
Archives...
The Society of American Archivists' Technical Subcommittee for Encoded Archival Standards (TS-EAS) are excited to announce the availability of "Records in Contexts (RiC) Update":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlZN1CQ2lVk
This webinar was originally held on December 13, 2021, and provides an update on work on the Records in Contexts (RiC) model. Daniel Pitti and Florence Clavaud of the International Council on Archives Experts Group on Archival Description (EGAD) present a brief overview of...
Please join TS-DACS for our Annual Business Meeting Tuesday July 16 at 2pm Eastern time/1pm Central. Please register for the meeting through the SAA Connect website. The meeting will include a summary of TS-DACS activities for the year and a discussion of Records in Context (RiC)
Alongside the public call for comments on the new version of the Encoded Archival Description standard, EAD 4.0, the Technical Subcommittee for Encoded Archival Standards (TS-EAS) of the Society of American Archivists (SAA) invites you to three informal drop-in sessions to discuss the main features of the new version. Following a brief presentation on a selected topic, each of these drop-in sessions will open the floor for your questions, comments, and suggestions.
Similar to previous TS-EAS...
The STHC Section is proud to announce the results of our 2025 election.
J.E. Molly Seegers will serve as Junior Co-Chair (2025-2027)
Caitlin Rizzo will serve as Member-at-Large (2025-2028)
Welcome Molly and Caitlin!
SAA's Science, Technology and Health Care Section has initiated a project to highlight underrepresented and diverse persons and groups documented in archival collections on the history of STEM and medicine. The hope is that the shared information will be a useful resource for researchers. All archival repositories are encouraged to contribute information for inclusion on the STHC "Unsung Heroes" webpage.
Thank you to all of our excellent candidates for standing in the 2022 Encoded Archival Standards (EAS) Section election. The EAS Section has two open positions for the 2022 election and two candidates running unopposed. Please take some time to review each candidate statement below.
You will be voting for:
One co-chair, for a two-year term, serving in year one as junior co-chair and in year two as senior co-chair; and
One Steering Committee member, for a two-year term.
SAA staff will manage...
As announced at the ERS annual section meeting Monday, July 20th, 2025, the results of the section election are in, and the new members of the ERS steering committee are:
Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect: Lara Friedman-Shedlov, Digital Records Archivist at the University of Minnesota
Steering Committee Member (full term): Doreen Dixon, Electronic Records Archivist at Drake University
Steering Committee Member (interim): Rebecca Hastings, Digital Archivist at University of Idaho
Our section standing...
You can make an impact by joining SAA's Accessioning, Acquisitions, and Appraisal (AA&A) Section by nominating yourself or recommending others for a leadership position on the AA&A Section Steering Committee.
We are seeking individuals for the following three positions:
(1) Vice Chair/Chair Elect (3-year commitment as Vice Chair, Chair, and Immediate Past Chair)
(2) At-Large Members (2-year commitment)
Steering committee members spend an average of a few hours per month working on...
The 2021-2022 Steering Committee met for the first time in September to discuss our goals for the upcoming year, and we are looking forward to continuing with our Coffee Chats and publishing some great content in the form of blog and Twitter posts. We would also love for people in our section to get involved and share their ideas, so we invite you to participate by submitting news, announcements, and topics of interest. We also welcome guest contributors to the blog, so please feel free to...
2025 Election Candidates
It is that time of the year again - SAA elections season! Thank you to our excellent candidates for standing in the 2025 Oral History Section elections. Please take some time to review their candidate statements and get to know them so you can make an informed choice.
This year, you will be voting for: One (1) Vice Chair/Chair-Elect, for a three-year term, and two (2) Steering Committee members, each for a two-year term.
Ballots will be managed by SAA staff. Keep an...
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,...
Congratulations to the following winner of our most recent election!
-Junior Co-chair / Elected Senior Co-chair: A.R. Flynn
-Social Media and Web Liaison: Kate Burns
Welcome to the Steering Committee, which is as follows:
-Senior Co-chair: Jordi Padilla-Delgado
-Junior Co-chair / Elected Senior Co-chair: A.R. Flynn
-Social Media and Web Liaison: Kate Burns
-Members: Max Flowers and Lou Hines
And also welcome to Early-Career Members Madison Newport and Lark Wilson. Thank you all for your...
The Working Group is pleased to make available for reference a PDF copy of the active survey collecting public feedback related to the current "Guidelines for College and University Archives" for those who would like to review the questions before completing the survey.
