Dear Colleagues:

The Society of American Archivists (SAA) is delighted to present Season 3 of Archives in Context, a podcast highlighting archival literature and technologies, and most importantly, the people behind them.

The results of SAA's 2020 election are in! The following individuals have been elected to serve:

March 23, 2020—Minutes from the March 6, 2020, Council conference call are available now here. 

For highlights from this meeting, see this news item. 

March 20, 2020—Yesterday afternoon, in collaboration with the Federation of State Humanities Councils, our colleagues at the National Humanities Alliance (NHA) submitted a letter to both the House and Senate Appropriations Committees outlining the many challenges that humanities institutions and educators are facing due to the COVID-19 crisis. They urged them to include supplemental funding for the National Endowment for the Humanities to alleviate these strains as part of Congress' next stimulus package.

March 18, 2020—The Society of American Archivists is committed to supporting archivists during the COVID-19 pandemic. 

The SAA Council strongly recommends that leaders, boards and trustees, and administrators of archives close public-facing facilities until archives workers are significantly less likely to be exposed or contribute to the spread of the coronavirus. While this decision is made locally, we urge decision-makers to act swiftly and proactively to authorize closures and remote work to protect the health of archives workers.

March 16, 2020—A new blog post has been added to Off the Record, the SAA Leaders blog hosted by the SAA President. In "Making Room for Everyone," SAA President Meredith Evans shares her President's Message article that originally appeared in the March/April 2020 issue of Archival Outlook. Read the blog post here. 

March 11, 2020—During its March 6 conference call, the SAA Council: