The SAA Statement of Core Values and Code of Ethics includes eleven core values. Among them is Social Responsibility. In fulfilling its charge to investigate and recommend changes to SAA’s annual meeting, the Social Responsibility Subgroup has been looking into ways in which the annual meeting can help us to be better local, national and global citizens. We've been focusing mainly on three areas:
Fair labor practices
A labor dispute at the Hyatt Regency during SAA's 2011 meeting in Chicago...
A part of the charge for the Annual Meeting Task Force is to offer Council specific recommendations for reasonable changes that can be made to the meeting’s structure and administration. The Content Subcommittee is charged with making recommendations on the current format, schedule and type of content. To this end, the Subcommittee has conducted a review of annual meetings for professional organizations from allied fields (including libraries, museums & international archival...
The Annual Meeting Task Force has been busy organizing, finding good sources for information, and conducting research, so it’s high time we reported to you, the members of SAA and started this conversation about where we go from here! If you’re wondering what our charge is, please see the our page on the main SAA website (http://saa.archivists.org/4DCGI/committees/SAATF-AM.html?Action=Show_Comm_Detail&CommCode=SAA**TF-AM&Time=-1866235686). It’s a big one… But, in a nutshell, we have...
Read the letter co-signed by the Society of American Archivists and other organizations concerning the Intelligence Authorization Bill, 2013. [Letter]
Read the letter by Gregor Trinkaus-Randall, President of the Society of American Archivists, issued to the Hon. James Moore, opposing to the April 30 decision by Library and Archives Canada to eliminate the National Archival Development Program and the Canadian Council on Archives. [Letter]
The Roundtable has endorsed the following two proposals for SAA 2013:
1. Displaced Archives
Nations and peoples have suffered throughout history from the removal of their documentary heritage. Records have been removed during war, revolution, and other conflicts for purposes ranging from plunder to propaganda to intelligence to documenting war crimes to the rescue of archives threatened with destruction. Such "displaced archives" are scattered in institutions across the globe; access to...
Candidate Statement for Web Liaison
I am currently a student at Simmons Graduate School of Library and Information Science in the Archives and History dual-degree program. In addition to being a full-time student, I am the Social Media Intern with the Archives and Archivists of Color Roundtable, as well as a founding member of the Core Working Group for Archivists without Borders, U.S. Chapter. My interest in human rights developed prior to my entry into the information science field,...
The American Library Association (ALA) celebrates Preservation Week , next Spring April 21st through April 27th, 2013. Libraries and other institutions can use Preservation Week to connect and reach out to their local communities through events, activities, and resources. It's a great opportunity for the general public to learn how library collections are preserved, and how libraries can help the public preserve their personal collections. For more information please visit us at http://www....
In keeping with the Content Subcommittee’s assignment to review the current and past formats of SAA annual meetings, the subcommittee undertook a review of SAA meeting programs for the years 1997-2012. The subcommittee looked at quantifiable aspects of the meeting—number of education sessions, attendance, etc.—as well as when specific events were held. The data was compiled in two spreadsheets. Observations and information that could not be presented in a spreadsheet appear in a word...
SNAP Appointed Officers
Liaison Coordinator: Amanda Strauss
Website Coordinator: James Northway
Social Media Coordinator: Helen Schubert
Blog Coordinator: Lisa Huntsha
Newsletter Coordinator: Gloria Gonzalez
With fall unfolding, now is a great time to focus on developing wonderful RAO-related session proposals to submit for the 2013 SAA Annual Meeting in New Orleans. For information about how to do this, see: http://www2.archivists.org/conference/2013/new-orleans/call-for-session-proposals-archives-new-orleans-2013.
The deadline to submit your proposal to the SAA program committee and to sections and roundtables for endorsement consideration has been extended and is now Monday, October 8,...
Thanks to all who participated in the first-ever Marketplace of Ideas at the 2012 SAA Annual Meeting in San Diego. Please take a moment and respond to a brief survey the 2012-13 RAO program committee developed to evaluate the RAO 2012 Marketplace of Ideas program offered as part of RAO’s regular membership meeting. If you missed the RAO meeting, there are just a couple of questions we’d love to have you address, if you attended the Marketplace, then we would appreciate your feedback on the...
Introduction
In 2007, Marist College Archives & Special Collections received a grant from National Historical Publications & Records Commission (NHPRC) to arrange, describe, preserve and make the collection of one of our nation’s best known journalists and explorers, Lowell Thomas accessible to all interested researchers and educators. The Lowell Thomas Papers consists of approximately 36,000 photographs, hundreds of hours of audio, thousands of feet of motion picture film, numerous...
Please nominate yourself or others for a SNAP appointed position! You must be a SNAP member to be eligible, but you do NOT need to be an SAA member. Please write a separate paragraph for each position you're interested in. (For example, if you'd like to nominate yourself for Liaison Coordinator and Website Coordinator, fill out the first two paragraph boxes in the form.)
Nominations are due by 11:59 PM EST on Wednesday, September 5. The Steering Committee will meet the weekend of September 8-9...
Thank you for the enthusiastic feedback received at the Annual Meeting Task Force information table and forum in San Diego! We welcome any other comments from those who could not make the meeting - or from those who have additional thoughts. Just add a comment below....
(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...
Archivists’ Toolkit/Archon Roundtable 2012 Annual Meeting Agenda
August 8, 2012 3:15-5:15pm Location: San Diego Hilton Bayfront Room: Sapphire MN
3:15pm- 3:30pm Business Meeting Introductions of Steering Committee By-law changes summary/process Update from SAA Council Liaison Bill Landis Election Results/Installation of SC members
3:30pm-3:45pm Updates and Announcements from the Field Update on Archivists’ Toolkit Update on Archon OCLC Research on linked open data NWDA/CDL AT training...
SNAP congratulates the winners of our 2012 elections.
Polina E. Ilieva and Jody L. DeRidder were elected co-chairs for 2012-2013. Congratulations!
Research Libraries Roundtable Annual MeetingWednesday, August 8, 20121:00 – 3:00 pm Room Sapphire GH
AGENDA
Program1:00 – 2:15 pm
Are Archives and Special Collections becoming central to the mission of research libraries?
The Roundtable will explore the centrality of archives and special collections to the mission of research libraries featuring lightening talks from a variety of institutions providing evidence of the direct involvement of archivists in the changing academic environment,...
