2026 RAO Ballot

Vice-Chair/Chair

(2-year term to replace recently vacated Vice-Chair/Chair position)

Amber Skantz (she/her) 

Amber Skantz most recently sat for and earned the Certified Archivist designation from the Academy of Certified Archivists. A 2022 graduate of Louisiana State University’s School of Library and Information Science, Amber has experience in both academic and public libraries as well as in university archives and living history museums. Amber also holds a Master of Arts in History. While in academic libraries, Amber has served in several reference and outreach roles, including serving as the co-chair of the library marketing and outreach team, and being one of the first non-faculty library employees to both lead the circulation department and perform regular reference desk shifts.  

In my role, I work to identify, stabilize, arrange and describe material of ongoing historical value related to my institution and the communities that it serves, with the end goal of making that material accessible to individuals across many demographics, both academic and the general public. I have presented for and worked with several regional, local, and national groups that are focused on ways to upscale this work, such as the Southeastern Archives Association, the Society of Alabama Archivists, The Best Practices Exchange, and the Teaching with Primary Sources Consortium’s TPSFest, among many others. In all of my professional roles, I have found that I love working behind the scenes to connect people to the information they need. It is my hope that I can bring this energy to SAA RAO.