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...
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,...
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...
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)
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.
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...
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.
Last updated in 1999, the updated Guidelines for College and University Archives is ready! Approved by the SAA Council on July 26, 2023, these new Guidelines represent years of work by dedicated C&UA Section members and invaluable input from Section membership. The Guidelines are available on the righthand menu in the Section microsite sidebar and will be available soon in the SAA Standards Portal.
This work could not have come to fruition without the efforts of Michelle Sweetser, Sandra...
Given the use of social media by people living in areas of armed conflict or severe repression, social media platforms have become accidental and unstable archives for human rights content. The last two decades have witnessed a fundamental shift in how people around the world communicate. During this period, the proliferation of smartphones and the rise of social media platforms have enabled increased identification, collection, and sharing of digital information related to international crimes...
Vice Chair/Chair-Elect Candidates
Ying-Ying Han
Bio
Yingying recently earned her Ph.D. from the School of Information Sciences, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Starting from August, she will be a faculty member at the School of Information Sciences, University of Tennessee. Her research and teaching interests focus on critical archival studies, digital preservation, and community engagement with marginalized groups.
By integrating critical theories such as feminist ethics of care,...
“The pandemic has been a horror,” says Rachel Mattson, Curator of the Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies. One of the projects that has kept the Tretter staff connected, supported, engaged — and able to support a wide range of research inquiries — throughout the pandemic is a project organized around a Twin Cities public access television show, GAZE-TV.GAZE-TV ran from 1986 until Pride season 1992, and then as Green And Yellow (GAY) TV until Pride...
The SAA Committee on Research, Data, and Assessment (CORDA) will be hosting our annual business meeting on Thursday, July 28th from 4:00-5:30 pm EST/3:00-4:30 pm CST/2:00-3:30 pm MST/1:00-2:30 PST.
VIDEO RECORDING HERE
https://www.pathlms.com/saa/events/2923/event_sections/12433/video_presentations/239422
CORDA is finishing an action-packed year and the year ahead looks to be equally ambitious. Many of its early objectives are coming into fruition, and committee members are eager to...
Thank you to all of our excellent candidates for standing in the 2025 Accessioning, Acquisitions, & Appraisal 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 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!
Vice...
Vice Chair/Chair-Elect:
Alex Palma
Lasallian Legacy Baltimore District
Philadelphia branck of Lasallian DENA Archives
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Bio:
Alex Palma is an Archivist for the Lasallian District of Eastern North America and works out of La Salle University. Prior to his current role, Alex served in a variety of different capacities at Museums and Historic Sites throughout Philadelphia. He is a proud member of the Organizing Team for Archives 4 Black Lives in Philadelphia, he is...
Karen Trivette, PhD recruiter of Archival Science Faculty and Students at Alma Mater Europaea University-European Center Maribor, Slovenia, will be inducted as a Fellow of the Society of American Archivists (SAA) during an awards ceremony at the Annual Meeting of SAA in Anaheim, CA. The distinction of Fellow is the highest honor bestowed on individuals by SAA and is awarded for outstanding contributions to the archives profession.
Specifically related to the International Archival Affairs...
Dear SAA members!
I am thrilled to announce the final Archival Landscapes Seminar for the 2024-2025 season from the International Archival Affairs Section (IAAS).
As you might recall, the Archival Landscapes virtual seminar series began in 2020. In each seminar, an international guest speaker introduces participants to the issues and advancements in their local context, describing the history, operating environment and unique aspects of archival practice in their country. Past series' programs...
We're extremely excited to launch the new SAA Early Career Member program this year in the BAS. We received applications from three great candidates... so we decided to keep them all! The Early Career Member 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.
Please take a few minutes to learn about these great new additions to the BAS Steering Committee!
Heidi Charles
Heidi...
The Accessioning, Acquisitions, and Appraisal Section Steering Committee has proposed the following wording changes to the section's standing rules to acknowledge maintenance of the Archival Accessioning Best Practices. Section members will vote on these changes during the upcoming election.
The proposed wording changes are underlined below:
I. PurposeThe purpose of the Accessioning, Acquisitions, and Appraisal Section of the Society of American Archivists (SAA) is to provide a forum for...
The election results are in!
Please welcome our new steering committee members Yolanda Hester and Molly Copeland.
Yolanda Hester is an oral historian and a public historian. She is currently the project
director of the Arthur Ashe Oral History Project at Arthur Ashe Legacy at UCLA, where
she oversees an extensive oral history project of the tennis champion.
Molly Copeland (she/her) is the Manuscripts Archivist at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, where she is responsible for the...
