The Native American Archives Section is seeking nominations for our 2023-2024 Steering Committee positions!
The Society of American Archivists (SAA) Native American Archives Section (NAAS) is seeking nominations for (1) Vice Chair/Chair-Elect and three (3) Steering Committee members. Anyone is welcome to apply, including students and early-career archivists. If you work with Native American archival materials, or are interested in learning more about the Protocols for Native American Archival...
New V1.2 of the SAA Research and Innovation Roadmap -- an active and evolving document, developed by the SAA Committee on Research, Data and Assessment, and asserts the critical research needs and gaps that have been identified by members across the profession. The roadmap reflects an analysis of current and emerging research, assessment, and data needs, to frame and inform work the profession might undertake in the years to come.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1BIFuSyKWOoPPNLHFiEwvRH9pC-...
Would you like to get more involved with SAA and expand your leadership experience? Maybe it's time to help lead the Preservation Section!
We are seeking candidates for two positions:
Vice-Chair/Chair Elect
Member-At-Large
If you are interested in nominating yourself, or would like to nominate someone else, please send the name and a 4 or 5 sentence statement of interest/professional bio to Kim Hoffman (khoffman@hamilton.edu) by Monday, May 22nd.
The work: Section projects include...
This year we have multiple open spots on our section's leadership team:
Vice-Chair (1)
Steering committee members (up to 2)
Please submit nominations for these positions via email to the AES Chair, Jesse Johnston (jajohnst@umich.edu). Please submit any nominatsion by May 25, so our slate of candidates may be posted on May 26.
List of Positions
Vice-Chair/Chair Elect (2-year commitment, 1 year as Vice-Chair and 1 year as Chair): Serves as Vice-Chair from the conclusion of the 2023 annual...
The Performing Arts Section (PAS) is inviting nominations for the Co-Chairs and three Steering Committee Member positions.
Serving in a leadership role on the Section is a wonderful way to become more involved with PAS and SAA and get to know other archivists.
Members of SAA and PAS are encouraged to apply for a position as an officer or member of the Steering Committee. Membership in both SAA and PAS is a condition of the nomination. The term for each office is two years, beginning in...
The Performing Arts Section (PAS) is inviting nominations for both the Co-Chair and three Steering Committee Member positions.
Serving in a leadership role on the Section is a wonderful way to become more involved with PAS and SAA and get to know other archivists.
Members of SAA and PAS are encouraged to apply for a position as an officer or member of the Steering Committee. Membership in both SAA and PAS is a condition of the nomination. The term for each office is two years, beginning in...
Help shape the future of the Society of American Archivists' Metadata and Digital Object Section (MDOS) by joining the Steering Committee!
Service on the MDOS Steering Committee is a manageable time commitment that offers you valuable experience as you contribute to our profession. You can help foster discussion, education, and collaboration among archivists interested in digitization, digital archival objects, and the metadata that enables their access, management, and preservation. This...
Come join LAS for a Community Exchange open discussion about the LAS oral history series and the topic of Financial Records.
Oral History There has been such a large show of interest in the LAS oral history series that we would like to give people a chance to discuss!
Financial Records A recent LAS listserv discussion inspired the idea for this event. Should financial records be redacted? Should they even be included in the archive? Which records are benign and which are more sensitive?...
Do you have an interest in developing the solo archivist community, or know someone who would be an excellent leader? The Lone Arrangers Section calls on our membership for candidates to join our 2023–2025 leadership team! Email the LAS Chair and Vice-Chair to nominate yourself, a friend, or a colleague. The deadline for nominations in the 2023 election is 11:59 PM PST on Friday, May 26th.
We are looking for candidate nominations for the following positions:
The Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect (2-...
Did you miss the LAS "UnBOXed" events on April 20 or April 27? Recordings are available below! These include section updates as well as presentations from Kristin Morris (Computer History Museum) and Cali Vance (The Bush School) on aspects of managing Oral History work.
Part 1 UnBOXed: Oral History Projects for Solo Archivists
Kristin Morris, SAA Oral History Section Steering Committee Member and Cisco Archivist at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA, has spent 20 years as a...
Are you passionate about preservation and excited to share skills and knowledge with your colleagues? Would you like to get more involved with SAA and expand your leadership experience? Maybe it's time to help lead the Preservation Section!
We are seeking candidates for two positions:
Vice-Chair/Chair Elect
Member-At-Large
If you are interested in nominating yourself, or would like to nominate someone else, please send the name and a 4 or 5 sentence statement of interest/professional...
The Military Archives Section WANTS YOU to join the Steering Committee (apologies to Uncle Sam)! With a minimal monthly time commitment, you can develop your leadership skills and enhance your professional network of fellow archivists. The only requirement is that you are a member of SAA.
Please consider nominating yourself or a colleague for one of these positions:
Vice-Chair/Chair Elect (2 year commitment, as Vice-Chair and Chair): Serves as acting chair in the absence of the chair...
You can make an impact by joining SAA's Accessioning, Acquisitions, and Appraisal (AA&A) Section by nominating yourself or recommending others for a leadership position on the AA&A Section Steering Committee.
We are seeking individuals for the following three positions:
(1) Vice Chair/Chair Elect (3-year commitment as Vice Chair, Chair, and Immediate Past Chair)
(2) At-Large Members (2-year commitment)
Steering committee members spend an average of a few hours per month working on...
SAA’s Description Section and the Technical Subcommittee on Encoded Archival Standards recently completed a three-part webinar series on controlled vocabularies. The series' presentations focused on the purpose of data value standards, how to approach their usage, and the current encoding options in Encoded Archival Description (EAD) and Encoded Archival Context (EAC-CPF). Along with other technical aspects of their implementation, the sessions provided examples of the practical application of...
The Encoded Archival Standards (EAS) Section is seeking candidates for three positions:
One co-chair for a two-year term (2023-2025) -- first year as junior co-chair and second year as senior co-chair
Two Steering Committee members for a two-year term (2023-2025)
We welcome early career candidates, as well as more seasoned archivists, including those who have held EAS Section leadership positions in the past. The time commitment for Steering Committee members is roughly 2-5 hours per month,...
The Collection Management Section spring webinar on "Digital Records and Collection Management" was held on April 10th, 2023. If you missed the live presentation and would like to watch, you may request streaming access to the recording by emailing the section chair (2022-23) Rita Johnston, at ritajohnston@miami.edu.
Lara Friedman-Shedlov is the Digital Records Archivist for the Archives and Special Collections Department of the University of Minnesota Libraries. They will describe how they...
The final session of the SAA’s Description Section and the Technical Subcommittee on Encoded Archival Standards webinar series on controlled vocabularies is today, April 12th, for North American audiences at 12 PM ET. This final session will present use cases for the application of controlled vocabularies in practice, for example with reparative description projects. It will also focus on options for selecting and revising controlled vocabulary terms in archival descriptions.
Speakers for...
The CDTRWG welcomed Nicola Laurent (she/her) and Kirsten Wright (she/her) from the University of Melbourne to present "Understanding the Need for Trauma-Informed Practice in Archives" on Wednesday, June 28 at 11 a.m. Central Trime. This talk considered what trauma-informed archival practice is and why we need to implement the practice in archives. Nicola and Kirsten provided an overview of the 2022 survey Understanding the International Landscape of Trauma and Archives, which sought to obtain...
This spring the Lone Arranger Section is excited to host a two-part series on oral history for solo archivists! Be sure to register for both presentations!
Part 1
UnBOXed: Oral History Projects for Solo Archivists
Kristin Morris, SAA Oral History Section Steering Committee Member and Cisco Archivist at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA, has spent 20 years as a curator and collections manager in local history museums. Kristin will present on her experience getting oral history...
International Archival Affairs Section (IAAS) of the Society of American Archivists presents our April Archival Landscapes Seminar
Kenya – Presented by Dr. Cleophas Ambira, ICA Africa Programme
Thursday 13 April 2023, 9am Eastern
Register in advance: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEsf-GupjkjGtHTfnY1yb4eXSPcSLhqBfFi
Dr. Ambira is the current Coordinator for the ICA Africa Programme and the chairman of Kenya Association of Records Managers and Archivists (KARMA). Dr. Ambira is a...
Catch up with this brief recap of our March 8th coffee chat with Julien Masanès, posted to the WAS Blog: Coffee Chat Recap with Julien Masanès – the Rise of Digital Collaboration Spaces and the Challenges for Archivists – Web Archiving Section (wordpress.com)
A link to the recorded session is available via the blog post and will be live for 30 days.
The first session of the SAA’s Description Section and the Technical Subcommittee on Encoded Archival Standards webinar series on controlled vocabularies is this week, on Wednesday, March 15 at 9 AM CET. This initial session will give an overview of how controlled terms are used in archival description and will provide recommendations and case studies on selecting vocabularies.
Speakers for this week's session include:
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Kerstin Arnold (Archives Portal Europe)
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The Spring 2023 issue of SOLO, the newsletter of the Lone Arrangers Section, is now available. This issue includes updates and reflections from LAS members as well as the results of the 2022–2023 member survey.
Read all past issues of SOLO on our Newsletter page.
Have an experience or idea you would like to share with your fellow solo archivists? Send submissions for the next issue of SOLO to lonearrangersectionsaa@gmail.com.
In this talk Kostas Arvanitis, Anne Eyre and Jen Kavanagh talk about a guide for archiving disaster support group records, which is designed for professionals and support groups. The guide is the outcome of a relevant project, which was funded by the University of Manchester, UK. From January to August 2022, a team of collective trauma and heritage consultants and academic researchers worked with members of the September 11 UK Families Support Group (S11UKFSG) in understanding and articulating...
SAA’s Description Section and the Technical Subcommittee on Encoded Archival Standards invite you to a three-part webinar series on controlled vocabularies. This series will review the purpose of data value standards, how to approach their usage, and the current encoding options in Encoded Archival Description (EAD) and Encoded Archival Context (EAC-CPF). Along with other technical aspects of their implementation, the sessions will provide examples of the practical application of controlled...
