Meet Your 2025 Collection Management Section Candidates

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
• One Steering Committee Member, for a two year term

Vice Chair/Chair Elect

Sarah Jones

Head of Special Collections & Archives Technical Services

University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Bio:

Sarah Jones has served as Head of Special Collections and Archives Technical Services at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) since 2023. She has been with UNLV Special Collections and Archives since 2017, holding a variety of roles including Digitization Grant Project Manager, Visiting Technical Services Librarian, and Technical Services Librarian. She earned her MLIS from UCLA in 2017. Sarah is an active member of several regional and national professional organizations, including the Society of California Archivists, the Conference of Inter-Mountain Archivists, and the Society of American Archivists. She has previously served on steering committees for both the Description Section and the Collection Management Section of SAA.

Candidate Statement:

With a deep commitment to the principles of preservation, access, and responsible stewardship, I bring both hands-on experience and a forward-looking perspective to the evolving challenges and opportunities in archival collection management. Over the course of my career, I have developed and implemented collection management policies and procedures that align with institutional missions while remaining flexible and responsive to the changing needs of users and staff. I am particularly passionate about advancing collaborative workflows, enhancing metadata and discovery systems, and promoting sustainable collection development strategies grounded in inclusion and transparency. Serving on this committee would allow me to contribute to the strategic direction and standards that shape our professional practice. I am eager to work alongside colleagues from across institutions to address shared challenges and strengthen the sense of community within our field.

Steering Committee Member

Rory Grennan
Director of Archives

Florida State University Libraries

Bio:

Rory Grennan is Director of Archives for Florida State University Libraries. He has been on the faculty of the Special Collections & Archives division since 2015. He holds an MLIS from San Jose State University, is a Certified Archivist, and has over a decade of progressively responsible professional experience in academic archives.

Rory is an active member of the Society of American Archivists and Society of Florida Archivists, serving as SAA Manuscripts Section Steering Committee Member (2016-2018), SFA Annual Meeting Planning Committee (2017-2018), SAA Standards Committee Member (2020-2023), SFA RAAC Representative (2021-2023), and occasional reviewer for the SAA Case Studies in Teaching with Primary Sources series.

 His research interests include efficient and effective archival processing, archival literacy and instruction, and intellectual property in archives and manuscripts. Outside the archives, Rory is a father, bass guitarist, and superhero connoisseur.

Candidate Statement

As my archival career progresses, I find myself seeking and developing effective and innovative ways to process and manage archival collections. Like many of you, I have often stood at the intersection of access-first principles and seemingly-impossible processing backlogs. In creating new guidelines and workflows at my home repository, I have valued the work of communities like the Collection Management Section. Shared discussion and documentation with other professionals has been key to my own work and as Steering Committee member I would look to foster a culture that pays that back to the community and forward to students and new professionals.