The SAA Council is seeking member comments on Best Practices for Internships as a Component of Graduate Archival Education and Best Practices for Volunteers in Archives. Both documents are now slated for their first periodic review since being approved in 2014. This initial call for comments will be used to determine if a review committee is needed to prepare substantive revisions to either or both of these best practice documents.

July 13, 2018—The SAA Executive Committee agreed to sign on to a letter, drafted by OpenTheGovernment.org, calling on Congress to immediately investigate the administration’s records management practices relating to the “zero-tolerance” immigration enforcement policy and family reunification efforts.

After receiving an overwhelming response to this year’s call for volunteers, SAA Vice President/President-Elect Dr. Meredith Evans is pleased to announce the following appointments to SAA groups. With assistance from the 2018 Appointments Committee and consultation with appointed group leaders, Dr. Evans completed the nearly 100 appointments in May.

July 10, 2018—Responding to a July 5 New York Times article, SAA President Tanya Zanish-Belcher today sent the following letter to the editor:

July 9, 2018—The Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) Rare Books and Manuscripts Section (RBMS) and the Society of American Archivists (SAA) have developed a new standard, Guidelines for Primary Source Literacy.

July 5, 2018—In a June 27 blog post by Archivist of the United States David Ferriero, the National Archives and Records Administration provided an update on the status of its review of the proposed Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) records schedule for records related to detainees held in ICE detention facilities. Ferriero notes: