April 11, 2022—Join Jennifer Meehan, head of the Eberly Family Special Collections Library at Penn State University, for a conversation with author Scott Cline about his new book, Archival Virtue: Relationship, Obligation, and the Just Archives, published by SAA, on Thursday, April 21, at 12:00 pm CT.

April 11, 2022—The SAA Foundation Board seeks comments by April 29 on a draft of the new SAA Foundation Strategic Plan for fiscal years 2023–2025.

The Foundation Board began drafting its first strategic plan in fall 2021, following recommendations from development consultants to further the foundation's growth. This proposed draft gathers both ongoing and new activities, with many connections to the SAA Strategic Plan and the new SAA Work Plan on Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility.

April 5, 2022—A new blog post has been added to Off the Record, the SAA Leaders blog hosted by the SAA President. In "Community is Not Neutral," Courtney Chartier shares her President's Message, which appeared in the March/April 2022 issue of Archival Outlook. Read the blog post here.

April 5, 2022—Does your archives have an infrastructure project or a major initiative that needs federal funding support? Last year, Congress brought back “earmarks” as part of the appropriations process and at least two projects put forth by SAA members were successful in seeing their projects (totaling $1.1 million!) directly funded by Congress. Members of Congress can once again direct spending to specific projects or entities in their states and districts this year.

March 30, 2022—The results of SAA's 2022 election are in! The following individuals have been elected to serve:

Read the latest issue of Archival Outlook! In the March/April 2022 issue, Sarah Polirer talks about the new SAA book Managing Business Archives, Kathryn Allamong Jacob reflects on special donor connections at the Schlesinger Library at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, and the SAA Dataverse invites submissions of datasets about archives.

Join Charles L. Chavis, Jr., on March 30 at 2:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. ET for a free virtual screening of the short film Hidden in Full View, the story of the lynching of Matthew Williams in Salisbury, Maryland, in 1931. Afterward, Chavis will lead a discussion of the institutional and descriptive challenges of archival research on communities who have experienced racial harm.

March 10, 2022—The SAA Foundation Board of Directors invites applications from individuals interested in serving a three-year term on the Board.