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Be an "Activist Archivist"!
 “Preserving the American Historical Record” Act Seeks Co-Sponsors; You Can Help!
New legislation to preserve the American historical record will be introduced in Congress soon. You can help ensure its success by enlisting co-sponsors! Read more.
National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC) Reauthorization
H.R. 5582 would reauthorize NHPRC at an annual level of $20 million for FY 2010–2014 — double the amount of the current authorization. For more information, go to http://historycoalition.org/?s=H.R.+5582.
The Artist-Museum Partnership Act (AMPA)
AMPA aims to allow artists, writers, and composers who donate works to museums and libraries to take a tax deduction equal to the fair market value of their work. Help keep this bill alive by contacting your senators to encourage their support! Click here for a pdf of a sample letter that you can adapt on your letterhead and fax. Click here to track previous introductions of this bill.
SAA/ACA Joint Statement on Iraqi Records
SAA and the Association of Canadian Archivists have released a joint statement on the fate of records captured or otherwise obtained by the U.S., and those removed by private parties, during the first and second Gulf wars. See the full statement here.
SAA Election Results In
Peter Gottlieb of the Wisconsin Historical Society will assume the office of vice president at the Society’s 72nd Annual Meeting in San Francisco in August and will become the 65th president in 2009-2010. Newly elected Council members are Tom Hyry (Beinecke Library, Yale University), Rosalye Settles (US Department of the Treasury), and Robert Spindler (Arizona State University Libraries). Beginning their one-year term on the Nominating Committee are Chris Prom, Chair (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Julie Herrada (Special Collections Library, University of Michigan), and Helen Wong Smith (Edwin H. Mookini Library, University of Hawai’i, Hilo). See the May/June issue of Archival Outlook for more information.
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 Did you do something simple to make a difference for your archives on May 1? We want to hear about it! Drop us a line at MayDay@archivists.org. Read about what others have done in the past here.
Quick Tip: “Negatives should be dried vertically. They can be hung on a line with plastic clips placed at the edges.”
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Successful Internships Start Here!
Check out the latest book from SAA: Archival Internships: A Guide for Faculty, Supervisors, and Students by Jeannette A. Bastian and Donna Webber. It provides useful and practical guidelines for successful internships through discussions of pertinent issues, case studies illustrating problems and solutions, and an array of sample forms and procedures. Click here for more info.
Launch of American Archivist Online
SAA is pleased to announce the launch of American Archivist Online. Individual members of SAA may access the online edition by logging in here.
2008 Ham Scholarships Awarded
Two talented and enthusiastic archives students are recipients of the inaugural F. Gerald Ham Scholarship to provide financial support to graduate students in their second year of archival studies. Congratulations to Emiko Hastings of the University of Michigan and Becky Robbins of Simmons College for their outstanding applications! We expect to see them actively involved in the profession and in SAA for many years to come!
Request for Proposals — Advocacy Case Studies
Have you organized an advocacy effort to achieve a significant archival program objective? SAA would like to hear from you! The main author of a SAA publication on advocacy seeks proposals from archivists to write one of approximately ten case studies to be included in the book. Proposals due May 15, 2008. Click here for more details.
Say It Ain’t So, Joe!
The March/April issue of Archival Outlook looks at the unique neighborhoods of San Francisco, SAA’s Annual Meeting destination in August. Find out what three now-retired professionals have to say about their work experiences in “Feminist Leaders Comment on the Status of Women.” With baseball spring training in progress, check out the recent acquisition of the Black Sox Archive. Plus stay abreast of Council activities, American Archivist Online, and much more!
New Skills for a Digital Era
What are the skills that information professionals must have to work with e-books, electronic records, and other digital materials? Find out in the proceedings from the “New Skills for a Digital Era” colloquium, held May 2006 in Washington, DC, which brought together information professionals, educators, managers, and technologists.
California Court Rules on Defamation and Oral History
Responding in part to an amicus brief filed by SAA and numerous library and publishing organizations, the California Supreme Court has ruled on the question of whether the “single-publication” rule applies to publications (such as an oral history) that have extremely limited distribution. [Read more]
Best Elevator Speech Contest Winner
Lisa H. Lewis took her boss’s advice and decided to enter the “Best Elevator Speech” contest conducted by SAA in celebration of American Archives Month 2007. Her 28-word entry took first place and won her a free year membership in SAA and a $50 coupon for books. [Read More]
SAA Urges Congress to Reconsider “HIPSA” Provisions
In a November 27 letter to the Senate’s Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, SAA President Mark Greene and colleagues from related organizations urge reconsideration of Health Information Privacy and Security Act of 2007 (HIPSA) provisions that would place perpetual privacy restrictions on medical information. [Read the letter here.]
Get a Grant!
The Library of Congress and the Foundation Center have published “Foundation Grants for Preservation in Libraries, Archives, and Museums.” This guide lists 1,725 grants of $5,000 or more awarded by 474 foundations from 2003 through 2007. The publication includes hotlinks to free online grant writing tutorials, a statistical analysis of grant funding, state-by-state descriptions of projects funded in preservation, indexes of recipients, and a list of all foundations that have donated to preservation. For more information, go to: http://www.loc.gov/preserv/.
“Access to Archives: The Japanese and American Practices”
Papers from the “Access to Archives: The Japanese and American Practices” conference held in Tokyo last May are now available. A delegation from SAA attended the conference under a grant from the Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission (JUSFC).
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A*CENSUS Survey Results Now Available Online
A special section on A*CENSUS was published in the Fall/Winter 2006 issue of The American Archivist. The online version includes enhanced links to additional tabular material. For comprehensive information on the survey, click here. |
ALA/SAA Joint Statement on Access to Research Materials Review Task Force
A newly formed joint task force of SAA and ALA members is charged with reviewing, updating, and revising the 1994 ALA/SAA Joint Statement on Access to Original Research Materials. In pursuing its charge, the group will benefit from a preliminary revision of the statement by an ALA/RBMS task force.
SAA appointees are: Joseph Anderson (American Institute for Physics), Pat Michaelis (Kansas State Historical Society), and Donna Webber (Simmons College). ALA/ACRL/RBMS appointees are: Elaine Barone (Buffalo & Erie County Public Library), Timothy Murray (University of Delaware), and Diane Windham Shaw (Lafayette College).
Your Contribution Will Make a Difference!
The SAA Foundation is the nation’s leading source of nonprofit funding dedicated solely to the interests of archives and archivists. Its mission: To enrich the knowledge and enhance the contributions of current and future generations by championing efforts to preserve and make accessible evidence of human activity and records of enduring value. [Click here to learn how you can make a difference for archives and archivists!]
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