Hello Everyone!
Please join the Annual Business Meeting of the Oral History Section on Tuesday, July 9th at 11-12:30 pdt/ 2-3:30 edt. We will review the Oral History Committee's work over the past year before turning over the floor to our speakers, Dr. Tyler Reed, Doug Boyd, and Jennifer Keil, who will speak about utilizing AI in oral history work. We will conclude the meeting with announcements and our agenda for the coming year!
Please be sure to register here.
The time for 2015 elections for open SNAP positions is upon us. Take a few minutes to read over the candidate statements!
Vice-chair/Chair Elect Candidates
Kelly Kietur – Private archive
I'm Kelly and I currently work as an archivist at a private archive in the Detroit area. I'm interested in serving as Vice Chair/Chair-Elect because as a new archivist as well as a first generation professional I am all too familiar with how daunting it can be when one is just starting out. I want to help...
Thank you to all our excellent candidates for standing in the 2021 Congressional Papers 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; and
2 Steering Committee members
Ballots will be managed by SAA staff through Survey Monkey; keep an eye on your inbox for when the ballot opens!
Vice Chair/Chair-Elect Candidates
The following candidates are running for...
The One Book, Many Communities has 3 digital book discussion events in the month of August. This project draws inspiration from the “one book, one town” idea, wherein people in local communities come together to read and discuss a common book. Librarians and Archivists with Palestine invites readers, librarians, and others to organize gatherings to discuss Minor Detail by Adania Shibli. This campaign is designed to introduce readers to the richness of Palestinian literature, and create a...
We hope you have had a good start into the new year. The Technical Subcommittee on Encoded Archival Standards (TS-EAS) would like to kick-off 2021 with an update on some of our recent as well as upcoming activities.
Encoded Archival Context - Corporate Bodies, Persons, and Families (EAC-CPF)Since early 2019, TS-EAS has been working on a major revision of the EAC-CPF standard. This revision -- EAC-CPF 2.0 -- addresses bug reports and feature requests from the implementer community -- and also...
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...
Join us for an informal meeting to discuss Section updates, Archives Month, and share your latest news!
When: Friday, October 27 at 2pm Eastern / 1pm Central / 12pm Mountain / 11am Pacific / 10am Alaska / 8am Hawaii
RSVP: https://tinyurl.com/57nsh98f
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Please submit newsletter items about archives and human rights (writ broadly) to hilary.h.barlow@gmail.com. These can be recent publications, upcoming events or exhibitions, opportunities and scholarships, or something else entirely as long as it connects to archives and human rights. For the October newsletter, please send you submission by October 24, 2019.
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RAO will host its 6th annual Marketplace of Ideas at the SAA Annual Meeting in Portland, OR on Wednesday, July 26, from 2:30–3:45pm, The Marketplace will kick off with each "vendor" giving a 2-minute infomercial to entice "shoppers." After that, we'll divide up and vendors will "sell" their ideas to shoppers in two 20-minute rounds. If you're interested in participating as a vendor, you'll find more information here.
A recap of our facinating December Coffee Chat with Dr. Ian Milligan is now live on our blog. Read more about Dr. Milligan's efforts to make web archives easier for historians and researchers to use.
Greetings,
On behalf of the Society of American Archivists Encoded Archival Standards (EAS) Section Steering Committee and the Technical Subcommittee on Encoded Archival Standards (TS-EAS), I am excited to announce that registration is open for our joint EAS Section and TS-EAS annual meeting, to be held on Tuesday, July 6, 10:00 AM-12:00 PM CDT/11:00 AM-1:00 PM EDT/17:00-19:00 CEST. This meeting is being held as part of the broader SAA Virtual Annual Meeting.
Please see the event...
SAA RAO Annual Meeting Agenda - As Of May 30, 2018
Date: Thursday August 16, 2018
Time: 4:15 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.
Location: Room – as of May 30, 2018 – on the SAA website – is “To Be Determined”. Marriott Wardman Park Hotel, 2660 Woodley Road NW, Washington, DC 20008.
Business Portion of Meeting: From 4:15 p.m. to 4:55 p.m.
Welcome! - Alison Stankrauff
RAO Leadership and Election Update: - Su Kim Chung
Communication Committee Update: - Rebecca Bizonet, Kris Bronstad, Julie Porterfield,...
The Reference, Access, & Outreach section of the Society of American Archivists seeks nominations for election to the following roles:
Steering Committee Member-at-Large (2)
2 year commitment
Vice-chair/Chair-elect
3 year commitment
All roles begin at the conclusion of the 2022 Annual Meeting. Nominations can be made via our 2022 Nominations Form by the end of the business day on June 24, 2022. For more information and details on roles and responsibilities you can review the...
by Jill Severn
Regular review of an organization’s bylaws is a great way to ensure that the organization remains nimble, responsive, and current. (It is also a great way to make sure that the organization’s image isn’t marred by the presence of typos.) Last year the RAO steering committee included this review as one of its tasks for the year. After careful scrutiny, the group determined that a few revisions would clarify and reflect current practice and a broad slathering of spell check...
Seeking a few good members!
Please send us any nominations for Steering Committee for the Reference, Outreach, and Access Section. And of course, you’re welcome to nominate yourself!
Here are the (short) by-laws that explain the duties and terms of the officers: http://www.archivists.org/saagroups/rao/bylaws.asp
Serving as a section leader is a great way to get involved with—or continue to be involved with—SAA, and a chance to benefit your profession. The Nominations Committee would be...
The 2013 RAO Program Committee seeks Hot Topics and Cool Demonstrations for provocative conversation and deep thinking in a hotel in New Orleans. On August 15th 2013 RAO will host its second annual Marketplace of Ideas and seeks purveyors of hot topics and cool demonstrations to sell their wares to a savvy audience of RAO archivists.
What is an RAO Hot Topic?
An RAO hot topic is an issue, a concern, an idea that has sparked recent attention in RAO circles. It can be something that seems...
Just a reminder that the Technical Subcommittee on Encoded Archival Standards (TS-EAS) is currently accepting public comments on the final draft of Encoded Archival Description (EAD) 4.0. Please note that there are some updated links below for accessing the draft and related documentation.
The draft includes newly proposed changes based on suggestions and comments received from the community (https://www2.archivists.org/sites/all/files/FeedbackReceived_1stCallForComments_EAD4.0.pdf) during the...
Would you like to get more involved with SAA and expand your leadership experience? Maybe it's time to help lead the Preservation Section!
We are seeking candidates for two positions:
Vice-Chair/Chair Elect
Member-At-Large
If you are interested in nominating yourself, or would like to nominate someone else, please send the name and a 4 or 5 sentence statement of interest/professional bio to Kara McClurken (kmm6ef@virginia.edu) by Monday, May 23rd.
The work: Section projects include planning...
Thank you to all of our excellent candidates for standing in the 2023 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 two Co-chairs, each for a two-year term.
The ballot is now open through August 13, 2023, and every PAS member's vote counts! The ballot is available under your SAA user profile or via this link.
Elizabeth K. Batiuk
elizabeth.k.batiuk@vanderbilt.edu...
The Crisis, Disaster, and Tragedy Response Working Group (CDTRWG) welcomed Pamela Schwartz, Executive Director of the Orange County Regional History Center. Through review and juxtaposition of case studies in preserving oral histories containing instances of contemporary and generational trauma, this presentation will include a discussion of purpose, process, ethics, challenges, and use of oral history on topics relating to the Pulse nightclyb shooting, the Ocoee Massacre, politics and law, and...
The Reference, Access, and Outreach Section (RAO) of the Society of American Archivists (SAA) seeks proposals for the 2023 Spring/Summer IDEAS Webinar Series (April-July) and Annual Meeting Marketplace of IDEAs on Friday, July 14, 2023 @ 4pm EDT/3pm CDT/2pm MDT/1pm PDT.
Topics focused on the RAO sub-committee areas of Teaching with Primary Sources, Exhibits and Events, and Public Services Assessment are encouraged. Proposals addressing topics or themes related to the following will be...
The Teaching with Primary Sources sub-committee of the Reference, Access and Outreach Section of the Society of American Archivists is accepting applications for the role of Associate Editor for the Case Studies on Teaching With Primary Sources series. For more information about the series, visit: https://www2.archivists.org/publications/epubs/Case-Studies-Teaching-With-Primary-Sources.
The Associate Editor works with the Editor to maintain the Teaching with Primary Sources Case Studies as a...
If so, please consider running for a Steering Committee position! You can find more information here.
Dear SAA members!
I am thrilled to announce the final Archival Vistas Briefings Seminar for the 2024-2025 season from the International Archival Affairs Section (IAAS).
As you might recall, the Archival Vistas Briefings virtual program series began in 2023 and discusses a topic or theme of international focus. The theme for 2024-2025 is archival standards and how we experience and use them. In each seminar, an international guest speaker(s) introduces attendees to how they have...
