Thank you to all of our excellent candidates for standing in the 2023 Archival History Section election. Please take some time to review th following candidate bios and statements and get to know them.
The ballots themselves will be managed by SAA staff. Keep an eye on your inbox for the official ballots to all sections.
You will be voting for:
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One Vice Chair (for a one-year term, who will move to Chair next year)
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Three (3) Steering Committee members, for one-year...
Thank you to all of our excellent candidates for standing in the 2023 Archival History Section election. Please take some time to review their candidate statements and get to know them.
You will find their bios and statements in both our newsletter and in another note that will follow this one.
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...
Thank you to all of our excellent candidates for standing in the 2023 Congressional Papers Section (CPS) 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 Chair (two-year term),
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!...
Thank you to all of our wonderful candidates for volunteering to run for open SAA Collection Management Section positions.
You will be voting for:
One Vice Chair/Chair-Elect (or Co-chair), for a two-year term
Two Steering Committee members, for a two-year term.
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 (1 position)
Alexis PeregoyDirector of the Coit Museum of Pharmacy and Health...
Many thanks to all of our excellent candidates for putting themselves forward in this election cycle. Please read and consider their statements carefully before submitting your votes.
The positions up for election this cycle are:
Vice Chair / Chair Elect for a 2-year term (1 position)
Steering Committee Member / Member-at-Large with 1-year terms (3 positions)
Secretary with 1-year term (1 position)
SAA will be sending the ballots out to all members via Survey Monkey, so watch your inbox and...
In 2023, the SAA Lone Arrangers Section (LAS) will elect new leadership to fill the following positions: Vice Chair/Chair, Newsletter Editor, and Regional Representative.
Meet the 2023 Candidates:
Vice Chair/Chair-Elect
Hilary Swett
Archivist, Writers Guild Foundation
Bio: I am a solo archivist at the Writers Guild Foundation, a non-profit entertainment special collections library and archive in Los Angeles. Like all of us in small shops, I wear many hats and juggle shifting priorities and...
Mark your calendars! The LAS Annual Meeting will be on Monday, June 12th from 1-2:30 PM Pacific / 2-3:30 PM Mountain/ 3-4:30 PM Central/ 4-5:30 PM Eastern.
During the meeting, we will introduce important updates, initiatives, and future plans from our Steering Committee. We will also be welcoming Christina Zamon, Head of Special Collections and Archives at Georgia State University and author of the soon-to-be-released book, Alone in the Stacks. In celebration of our 20th anniversary as a group...
Steering Committee Roster
Please find the 2023 IAAS election slate of candidates below:
Junior Co-Chair (2-year term):
Karen Trivette
Head of Special Collection and College Archives, Gladys Marcus Library,
Fashion Institute of Technology, State University of New York
Candidate Statement: I wish to express my sincere interest to serve the SAA International Archival Affairs Section (IAAS) as Junior Co-Chair. Since becoming a professional archivist, I have taken on leadership roles within my...
The Archivists and Archives of Color Section Steering Committee is excited to announce the excellent slate of candidates running in this year’s election. Please review their bios and statements before casting your votes.
You will be voting for:
1 Co-chair (2-year term)
1 Newsletter Editor (2-year term)
SAA staff administer ballots through Survey Monkey and will email you the ballot when voting opens.
Co-chair
Kimberly Villafuerte BarzolaDigital Archiving Educator, LGBTQ Religious Archives...
Thank you to all of our excellent candidates for standing in the 2023 Archives Management 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, for a two-year term;
One Secretary, for a one-year term; and
2 Steering Committee members, for three-year terms.
Ballots will be managed by SAA staff through Survey Monkey; keep an eye on your inbox for when the...
Thank you to all of our excellent candidates for standing in the 2023 Encoded Archival Standards (EAS) 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, serving in year one as junior co-chair and in year two as senior co-chair; and
Two Steering Committee members, for a two-year term.
Ballots will be managed by SAA staff through Survey Monkey; keep an...
You will be voting for:
One Vice Chair/Chair-Elect, for a three-year term; and
Three 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/Chair-Elect Candidates
The following candidates are running for the Vice Chair/Chair-Elect position:
Elizabeth Russell
Providence Archives, Seattle
Biographical Statement
I am currently Senior...
Samantha Bradbeer, Archivist and Historian, Hallmark Cards, Inc.
Samantha Bradbeer spends her days at Hallmark making sure that an accurate and varied record of company, family, and product history is preserved for future generations.
As the company archivist and historian, Bradbeer oversees the preservation of advertisements, audio visual materials, chromolithographs, company records, greeting cards and other products, original artwork, postcards, progressive proof books, rare books, prints...
Register now via Webex to attend the 2023 Privacy and Confidentiality Section Meeting on Tuesday, June 13, 2023, from 11:00 a.m.- 12:30 p.m., CT.
Following a brief business meeting, we will host an informal, unrecorded open discussion about privacy and confidentiality in archives. We will use Padlet to guide the discussion. An anonymous posting option will be available.
Potential discussion topics could include, but are not limited to:
Reappraisal based on P&C...
Are you passionate about preservation and excited to share skills and knowledge with your colleagues? 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...
The Native American Archives Section is seeking nominations for our 2023-2024 Steering Committee positions!
The Society of American Archivists (SAA) Native American Archives Section (NAAS) is seeking nominations for (1) Vice Chair/Chair-Elect and three (3) Steering Committee members. Anyone is welcome to apply, including students and early-career archivists. If you work with Native American archival materials, or are interested in learning more about the Protocols for Native American Archival...
New V1.2 of the SAA Research and Innovation Roadmap -- an active and evolving document, developed by the SAA Committee on Research, Data and Assessment, and asserts the critical research needs and gaps that have been identified by members across the profession. The roadmap reflects an analysis of current and emerging research, assessment, and data needs, to frame and inform work the profession might undertake in the years to come.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1BIFuSyKWOoPPNLHFiEwvRH9pC-...
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 Kim Hoffman (khoffman@hamilton.edu) by Monday, May 22nd.
The work: Section projects include...
This year we have multiple open spots on our section's leadership team:
Vice-Chair (1)
Steering committee members (up to 2)
Please submit nominations for these positions via email to the AES Chair, Jesse Johnston (jajohnst@umich.edu). Please submit any nominatsion by May 25, so our slate of candidates may be posted on May 26.
List of Positions
Vice-Chair/Chair Elect (2-year commitment, 1 year as Vice-Chair and 1 year as Chair): Serves as Vice-Chair from the conclusion of the 2023 annual...
The Performing Arts Section (PAS) is inviting nominations for the Co-Chairs and three Steering Committee Member positions.
Serving in a leadership role on the Section is a wonderful way to become more involved with PAS and SAA and get to know other archivists.
Members of SAA and PAS are encouraged to apply for a position as an officer or member of the Steering Committee. Membership in both SAA and PAS is a condition of the nomination. The term for each office is two years, beginning in...
The Performing Arts Section (PAS) is inviting nominations for both the Co-Chair and three Steering Committee Member positions.
Serving in a leadership role on the Section is a wonderful way to become more involved with PAS and SAA and get to know other archivists.
Members of SAA and PAS are encouraged to apply for a position as an officer or member of the Steering Committee. Membership in both SAA and PAS is a condition of the nomination. The term for each office is two years, beginning in...
Help shape the future of the Society of American Archivists' Metadata and Digital Object Section (MDOS) by joining the Steering Committee!
Service on the MDOS Steering Committee is a manageable time commitment that offers you valuable experience as you contribute to our profession. You can help foster discussion, education, and collaboration among archivists interested in digitization, digital archival objects, and the metadata that enables their access, management, and preservation. This...
Come join LAS for a Community Exchange open discussion about the LAS oral history series and the topic of Financial Records.
Oral History There has been such a large show of interest in the LAS oral history series that we would like to give people a chance to discuss!
Financial Records A recent LAS listserv discussion inspired the idea for this event. Should financial records be redacted? Should they even be included in the archive? Which records are benign and which are more sensitive?...
Do you have an interest in developing the solo archivist community, or know someone who would be an excellent leader? The Lone Arrangers Section calls on our membership for candidates to join our 2023–2025 leadership team! Email the LAS Chair and Vice-Chair to nominate yourself, a friend, or a colleague. The deadline for nominations in the 2023 election is 11:59 PM PST on Friday, May 26th.
We are looking for candidate nominations for the following positions:
The Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect (2-...
