SAA Council Approves Standard for Public Services Metrics, Adopts SAA Legislative Agenda

On its January 17, 2018, conference call, the SAA Council accomplished the following:

• Approved the final draft of the “Standardized Statistical Measures for Public Services in Archival Repositories and Special Collections Libraries,” as prepared by the SAA-ACRL/RBMS Joint Task Force on Public Services Metrics. [The standard will be added to the SAA Standards Portal as soon as possible.]
• Approved extension of the SAA-ACRL/RBMS Joint Task Force on Holdings Metrics through August 31, 2018.
• Approved SAA’s 2018 Legislative Agenda and Action Plan. Developed by the Committee on Public Policy, the Agenda is intended to 1) supplement SAA’s more wide-ranging Public Policy Agenda, 2) provide focus and direction to SAA’s advocacy efforts, and 3) encourage members to take individual action in support of archives and archivists.
• Discussed possible revisions to the Key Performance Indicators in SAA’s Strategic Plan and the details of a pilot test to provide funding to sections for special projects, among other discussion items.

The complete meeting minutes will be posted to the website once they are approved by the Council.

The SAA Council will meet in Chicago, May 7-9. To propose agenda items for Council consideration, forward your ideas to SAA President Tanya Zanish-Belcher (president@archivists.org) or Executive Director Nancy Beaumont (nbeaumont@archivists.org).