Please send any nominations by Wednesday, June 29! Self-nominations are encouraged!
Are you seeking an opportunity to expand your network and get further involved in the oral history community? If so, consider running for an open position on the Oral History Section Steering Committee.
Benefits of providing your time and expertise to the Steering Committee include:
Networking with engaged colleagues
Cultivating leadership skills in a real-world setting
Driving trends in the field
Gaining...
Please find the 2022 IAAS election slate of candidates below:
Junior Co-Chair:
Ellen EngsethCurator, Immigration History Research Center Archives and Head,Migration and Social Services Collections, University of Minnesota Candidate Statement: Thank you for considering me for this position.I would be very pleased to continue serving on the committee (I amcurrently a member-at-large) as Junior Co-Chair, and advance the workof connecting with both national and international colleagues. I...
2022 Election: Candidate Statements
Thank you to all of the candidates for the 2022 Description Section election. Please read below for candidate biographies and statements of interest.
You will be voting for:
Vice-chair/Chair-elect
Secretary
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
Will Clements
Biography
Will Clements is currently Public Policy Papers Archivist at the...
Read candidate statements for the 2022-2023 election.
The SAA Military Archives Section Steering Committee is excited to announce that the section's annual meeting will be held virtually on July 12, 2022, from 3-4 PM (CST). Our speakers for the section meeting will be Rizwan Ali of the National Security Research Center at Los Alamos National Laborator, and Matthew Peek, former Military Collection Archivist for the State Archives of North Carolina. The section will not be recorded, and can only be attended live this year.
Speaker Information
Rizwan...
The following candidate is running for the Co-chair position:
Steven Calco
Research Archivist, Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives
I am the Research Archivist at the Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives in Martin P. Catherwood Library. Catherwood, located in the ILR School, is part of Cornell University Library. I hold an MLS from CUNY Queens College and an MA in Labor Studies from the CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies. Previously at...
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Thank you!
Thank you to all of our excellent candidates for standing in the 2022 Public Library Archives and Special Collections (PLASC) 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 (or Co-chair), for a two-year term; and
One Secretary, for a one-year term; and
One Webmaster, for a one-year term
Ballots will be managed by SAA staff through Survey Monkey; keep an eye...
This year, PLASC decided to use a blog platform to share news with its membership. Please check out The Finding Aid and consider submitting content.
Our section is excited to share's SAA's latest announcement about approving and creating an Archival Repatriation Committee tasked with ensuring "that the organization's services, activities, policies, communications, and products support archivists in repatriating and receiving archival materials." This new group grew from our section's recent recommendation and we are excited that we will also have standing representation on the committee. The Council will soon issue a special call...
Thank you to all of our excellent candidates for standing in the 2022 Native American Archives 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; 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/...
Thank you to all of our excellent candidates for standing in the 2022 Native American Archives 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; 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/...
Thank you to all our candidates for standing in the 2022 Design Records Section election! Members, please review their candidate statements below so that you can make an informed choice.
You will be voting for:
• Junior Co-Chair
• Steering Committee member
• Steering Committee member
We are also voting on making the Digital Design Records Task Force (DDRFT) a sub-committee under the Design Records Section, as detailed below.
The election will be managed by SAA staff; please keep an eye on...
Thank you to all our excellent candidates for standing in the 2022 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, for a two-year term; and
Three 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...
You will be voting for:
One Vice Chair/Chair-elect, for a two-year term
Two Steering Committee Members, each for a three-year term
Ballots will be managed by SAA staff through Survey Monkey; please keep an eye on your inbox for when the ballot opens!
Vice Chair/Chair-Elect (select one)
Name: Hilarie Pitman Pozesky
Professional title, institution, or affiliation: Cofounder and Archivist, Sepia Archival Management
Biographical Information:
Hilarie Pitman Pozesky is a co-founder of Sepia...
Thank you to all of our excellent candidates for standing in the 2022 Encoded Archival Standards (EAS) Section election. The EAS Section has two open positions for the 2022 election and two candidates running unopposed. Please take some time to review each candidate statement below.
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
One Steering Committee member, for a two-year term.
SAA staff will manage...
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 Chair/Chair-Elect Candidates
The following candidates are running for the Vice Chair/Chair-Elect position:
Veronica DenisonUniversity Archivist, Kansas State University
Biographical statement:
Veronica Denison is the University Archivist at Kansas...
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)
3 Steering Committee Members (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
Joseph R. (Bob) DiazAssociate Librarian...
Vice-Chair/Chair Elect Candidates
Helena Egbert
Biography:Helena Egbert is the Processing Archivist at Kansas State University Libraries. After being hired in April 2020 she led disaster recovery efforts to bring the archival collections back into the building following the Hale library fire in 2018. She continues to lead efforts related to long lasting effects from the disaster. She also oversees processing and collection management efforts. Previously she worked at Oregon State University at...
Thank you to all of our excellent candidates for standing in the 2022 Accessibility & Disability Section election. Please take some time to review their candidate statements.
You will be voting for:
Vice Chair/Chair-Elect (three-year term)
Steering Committee members (three-year terms)
Early-career member (one-year term)
Ballots will be sent by SAA through Survey Monkey — keep an eye on your inbox for when the ballot opens!
Vice Chair/Chair-Elect Candidates
The following candidate is...
Call for nominations! Please send any nominations immediately by June 1!
Are you seeking an opportunity to expand both your own knowledge of archival history and your network of colleagues with similar interests? If so, consider joining the Archival History Section as a member of our Steering Committee or as our Early Career Member.
Steering Committee members aid the section in our newsletter (https://archivalhistory.news), help us sponsor annually an award about archival history, and work in...
Vice Chair / Chair Elect
Alexandra (Lexy) deGraffenreid, Interim Co-Head of Collection Services & Processing Archivist, Penn State Univeristy's Eberly Family Special Collections Library
Biography
Alexandra (Lexy) deGraffenreid is the Interim Co-Head of Collection Services & Processing Archivist at Penn State University’s Eberly Family Special Collections Library where she stewards the ingest, accessioning, processing, and collection maintenance of their archival and special...
Thank you to all of our excellent candidates for standing in the 2022 Metadata and Digital Object Section (MDOS) 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:
1 Co-chair (three-year term)
1 Steering Committee member (three-year term)
1 Web Liaison (three-year term)
1 Education Coordinator (three-year term)
Ballots will be managed by SAA staff through Survey Monkey; keep an eye on your inbox...
The SAA Public Library Archives and Special Collections Section seeks candidates to serve in leadership positions for the next fiscal year, 2022-2023! Getting involved in PLASC leadership is a great way to engage in professional development and public service, and connect with colleagues throughout the United States.
Time commitment is approximately 3 hours/month, including attendance at a virtual monthly meeting. Annual meeting attendance is NOT required. Over the past year PLASC has been...
The Performing Arts Section (PAS) is seeking nominations for both the Co-Chair and a 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.
In order to hold a position as an officer and/or member of the Steering Committee, you must be a member of both SAA and PAS. The term for each office is one year, beginning at the close of the SAA annual meeting in August 2022 and ending...
