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...
Please register for the 2025 Annual Business Meeting of the Performing Arts Section, which will take place on Wednesday, July 30th from 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM EDT. Registration is available here:
We will recap our section's work over this year, discuss plans for the newsletter, announce the election results, and hear updates from our Council liaison, Alison Clemens. Following these announcements, we will have a roundtable discussion on the subject of caring for, and providing access to, costumes...
Please register for the 2025 Annual Business Meeting of the Performing Arts Section, which will take place on Wednesday, July 30th from 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM EDT. Registration is available here:
We will recap our section's work over this year, discuss plans for the newsletter, announce the election results, and hear updates from our Council liaison, Alison Clemens. Following these announcements, we will have a roundtable discussion on the subject of caring for, and providing access to, costumes...
Candidates are listed in alphabetical order.
Bolton "Bo" Kelly Doub University of Southern California
I currently work as the Archival Projects Librarian in the University of Southern California (USC) Libraries Special Collections. Prior to USC, I processed collections at the Center for the Study of Political Graphics and the Computer History Museum under two different grant-funded projects.
LGBTQ+ histories, communities, and identities have been an important part of my life, as I have ...
Please take some time to review the candidate statements for the 2025-2027 Diverse Sexuality and Gender Section leadership positions before submitting your vote once the ballots open.
You will be voting for:
1 Junior Co-chair / Elect Co-chair, and
1 Social Media / Web Liaison
Ballots will be managed by SAA staff through Survey Monkey; keep an eye on your inbox for when the ballot opens!
Junior Co-chair / Elect Co-chair Candidate:
A. R. Flynn
A.R. Flynn (they / them) is Project...
Attached is the agenda for the LAGAS section meeting on Wednesday, July 26th.
We look forward to seeing you all at SAA!
We’re excited to invite you to this year’s PLASC section meeting, featuring a panel presentation on Description Remediation in Action.
Katie MacKendrick (Cataloging Supervisor) & Laura Ruttum Senturia (Archives Access Supervisor) from the Denver Public Library will share their experience conducting a diversity audit of nearly 6,000 manuscript and photograph collections from 2020–2022. They’ll discuss key findings and the ongoing reparative cataloging efforts resulting from the audit.
From...
The ballot is ready!
Ballots are open and remain open for 3 weeks, closing on Tuesday, July 15.
Ballot Page: https://mysaa.archivists.org/myballots
The “View Ballot” link will direct users to the usual SurveyMonkey election ballot. Users must be logged in to access the page. Once they submit one ballot, users will be redirected back to the main page to complete their next ballot.
Thank you!
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.
Click here to view Archival Landscapes seminars.
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...
ARCS Steering Committee Nominations 2025
VICE CHAIR:
1.
Alex Palma
Lasallian Legacy Baltimore District
Philadelphia branch 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...
The election is now open! You can view the candidate statements here.
Important Dates:The elections will open on Monday, June 23 and remain open through Monday, July 15.
When you're ready to vote, please use this link and click on the Native American Archives Section ballot.
Please note that you must be a current member of the Society of American Archivists (SAA) to participate in the election.
Thank you for supporting NAAS leadership. Your voice matters!
Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect
Lori Schwartz
Hagel and Technical Services Archivist, University of Nebraska at Omaha
I have worked at the University of Nebraska at Omaha's Archives and Special Collections for ten years. I was first hired to manage the U.S. Senator Chuck Hagel Archives. In 2021, I picked up additional responsibilities of directing arrangement and description for the rest of the department's manuscript collections. Prior to 2015, I was Special Projects Archivist at South Carolina...
The next edition of the Business Archives Section Quarterly (BASQ) is in the works!
This time we are dealing with the ways in which corporate archives are managing during the COVID-19 pandemic. This is an unusual time for us all, and we are interested in hearing how business archivists are supporting their companies. We've had some great conversations on the message board about this topic and want to take it to the newsletter.
You can check out the threads “Your Responses to COVID-19” (March 19...
