If you missed the SAA Solo Archivists Section (SAS) annual section meeting on July 22, or just want to rewatch the announcements or Allison Bundy's interesting and informative deep dive into implementing ArchivEra at her repository, the recording is now available!
If you're only interested in Allison's presentation, it begins (after a short introduction by SAS incoming chair Hilary Swett) at about the 23-minute mark.
A reminder of the content of her talk:
Allison's case study covers the reasons...
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...
Detail illustration from the 200 East 42nd Street marketing brochure, 1958. Illustration features the front entrance of the building, located on 42nd Street and Third Avenue. Durst Archives.
By Ryan Donaldson, Senior Manager of Heritage and Information Services
Founded in 1915, The Durst Organization (“Durst”) is a family-run business dedicated to the principles of innovation, integrity, community, and sustainability. Durst develops, builds, owns, and manages premier office towers and...
This link will take you to the PLASC Marketing and Advocacy Toolkit, a Wordpress site.
Heading into the new SAA year after the Annual Meeting in August, the Technical Subcommittee on Encoded Archival Standards (TS-EAS) has finalised two minor revisions of EAD3 (Tag Library) and EAD 2002 (Schema), which the Standards Committee approved before the summer break. With this, TS-EAS also would like to kick off the major revision of EAD, asking for the community’s comments to get us started.
Minor revisions - EAD3 Tag Library and EAD 2002 schema
As a precursor to the major revision,...
Dear members of the Encoded Archival Standards community,
TS EAS is seeking to fill two international and two SAA based vacancies in TS EAS during the fall of 2021. We seek new members through open calls and will evaluate all applications. There might be an on-line call performed after we have gone through the applications.
TS EAS meets four times a year (committee members must attend at least two of these) and also has smaller teams working with specific tasks like the maintenance of the...
Vice Chair/Chair-Elect Candidate: Gabrielle M. Dudley
Gabrielle M. Dudley serves as the Research Library Fellow for Reference and Instruction at the Manuscript, Archive, and Rare Book Library (MARBL) at Emory University. In May 2012, Gabrielle graduated from the University of South Carolina with a MA in Public History and a MLIS with an emphasis in African American history and archival administration. She also holds a BA in History from the University of Montevallo. Gabrielle has been a member...
The May 2013 issue of the Archivists and Archives of Color Roundtable Newsletter is now available for download! It includes an article about the Washington State University's Hirahira photo collection, a remembrance of past AACR co-chair Taronda Spencer, and a calendar of upcoming events.
LinksAACR NewslettersAACR Newsletter (May 2013)
In a “Joint Letter on the National Library and Archives of Grenada,” the Archivists and Archives of Color Roundtable and the Issues & Advocacy Roundtable of SAA applaud the newly elected Minister for Education and Human Resource Development, the Honorable Anthony Boatswain for his “efforts to reopen and restore the Sheila Buckmire Memorial Library,” which serves as the national library and national archives center. It has been closed to the people of Grenada since July 2011. The letter to...
2024 DRS Annual Meeting Agenda
Time: Monday, July 29th – 2 pm - 3:30 pm EST.
2:00 pm – 2:10 pm = Welcome & Announcements
2:10 pm - 2:30 pm = Digital Design Record Committee presentation
2:30 pm – 2:40 pm = Presentation: “Post 1991 Digital Records” by Becca Brown and Paige Adair of the Portman Archives
2:40 pm – 3:15 pm = Q & A for presenters and Open Floor for other DRS-related topics
We hope you can join us, even if it’s only for just a few minutes...
Please join us on Friday, August 28, 2026, at 11am EDT with Tamara Stefanac, Croatian archivist at the National and University Library in Zagreb, for the fourth Archival Landscapes seminar of the year.
Stefanac previously participated in a Vistas 2023 IAAS seminar where she briefly discussed her Fulbright Scholarship experience.
Advance registration for this seminar is available at this link.
We look forward to seeing you there!
On the 43rd anniversary of the military coup in Argentina, the Argentine government of Mauricio Macri has announced that the Trump Administration will provide “the largest delivery of declassified documents, in size and file quality, to another nation”—formerly secret U.S. records relating to human rights abuses committed during under the military dictatorship between 1976 and 1983. The official transfer of the records is planned for mid-April during a visit by Argentina’s minister of justice...
Survey Monkey emails for voting will be generated between June 26 and June 28. Watch for them! If you do not get one, and it's not in your spam folder, or if you have any other problems casting your ballot, please contact fowens@archivists.org.
Slate for the 2017 Preservation Section Election
Vice-Chair/Chair Elect
We have 1 candidate for 1 position.
Eve Neiger
Member-At-Large
We have 3 candidates for 1 position.
Fletcher Durant
Summer Espinoza
Rhonda Rhinehart
Scroll down for the candidate's...
Candidate Statement for Co-Chair of the Labor Archives Roundtable
Conor Casey, MA, MLIS, CA
Roundtable Service
It was a pleasure serving as Labor Archives Roundtable Co-Chair in 2011-2013 and 2013-2015. In my terms, I coordinated our roundtable’s adoption of bylaws to ensure our compliance with SAA council policy, spearheaded an investigative effort to determine the viability of a topical cross-repository labor collections search portal, enhanced access to our updated LAR repository...
The Collection Management Section will be holding its spring webinar and annual meeting together this year on May 20 from 2-3:30pm ET. Steering committee members and invited speakers will present on the Guidelines for Standardized Holdings Counts and Measures for Archival Repositories and Special Collections Libraries. Both CMS and the Rare Books and Manuscripts Section (RBMS) of ACRL are collaborating on a joint revision of the standard. Audience members will have the opportunity to learn...
The Technical Subcommittee on Describing Archives: A Content Standard (TS-DACS) recently requested feedback on its proposal to adopt two new single-level minimum required descriptive elements:
· 8.2. Rights Statement for Archival Description
· 13.10. Rights Statement for Archival Authority Records
As noted in the request, these elements were proposed by Alston Coburn (East Carolina University) and Patrick Galligan (Rockefeller Archive Center). They would require archival...
Visual Materials Section event this THURSDAY, November 2 @ 3:30pm ET / 12:30pm PT
Annual Meeting Proposal Brainstorming
Do you have a project or an idea related to visual materials you'd like to share but need a little encouragement? Do you have a question about working with visual materials that you'd like to know the answer to?
Come join the Visual Materials section for an informal brainstorming session to make connections and workshop ideas for annual meeting session proposals. Let's get...
You will be voting for: • The Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect (one candidate, 2025-2028)• One Staring Committee Member (one candidate, full three-year term)• One Steering Committee Member (seven candidates, interm one-year term)• Updates to the ERS Section Standing Rules
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 Candidate (one open seat)
Lara Friedman-ShedlovDigital Records Archivist, University of Minnesota...
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...
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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...
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 a June webinar as part of the upcoming major revision of the Encoded Archival Description (EAD).
EAD 2002 and EAD3 are currently used by a global community, and TS-EAS aims to get a better understanding of the landscape of EAD use and the needs and requirements of the EAD community with regard...
Ensuring that all histories – especially the most marginalized – are preserved and shared is a priority for Sites of Conscience around the globe. To support this, in partnership with our Asian and Pacific Sites of Conscience Network, we are pleased to launch “Shared Journeys,” a virtual exhibit that showcases the hidden, lost, or sidelined histories of the Asian region. The project is a collaboration between 12 Sites of Conscience in the region and is curated by Radhika Hettiarachchi.Read more ...
"Performance in the Archives" [Virtual Coffee Table Discussion" April 29, 2022, 3:00 pm EDT/2:00 pm CDT/12:00 pm PDT, via Zoom
SAA's Performing Arts Section (PAS) invites SAA members, affiliates, colleagues, and friends to a discussion about the encounters, interactions, and mutual influences between the world of archives and performing arts. The panel features Lynn Garafola, Professor Emerita of Dance, Barnard College, Columbia University; Zachary Whittenburg, dance journalist and Arts...
During March and April this year, the Technical Subcommittee on Encoded Archival Standards (TS-EAS) conducted a community survey of the application of the standards it supports. The results of the survey were discussed at the committee's component group meeting in May, but a written report is now available through the SAA Description Section's Descriptive Notes blog at https://saadescription.wordpress.com/2026/06/09/standards-in-practice-findings-from-a-community-survey-on-encoded-archival-...
