April 9, 2019—SAA has endorsed the Council of State Archivists’ (CoSA) statement expressing concern about Texas House Bill 1962, which would change the existing statutes governing archival records of the Texas legislature. Read the statement here.  

BETHANY ANDERSON and AMY COOPER CARY, EDITORS

April 4, 2019—“WIPO must step forward to establish broad standards for [copyright] exceptions that recognize the non-commercial work of archives to preserve and make available the world’s cultural heritage,” said SAA representative Bill Maher at a meeting of WIPO’s Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights in Geneva, Switzerland, on April 3. Read the full statement here.  

April 3, 2019—The Society of American Archivists is concerned about the recent decision by Hollins University President Pareena G. Lawrence to remove from the University’s institutional repository yearbooks containing offensive imagery of blackface. Read the full statement here.

March 4, 2019—SAA Vice President/President-Elect Michelle Light has notified the SAA Council of her resignation from that post, effective May 15, 2019. 

Light has taken a position with the Library of Congress that will preclude her from serving as SAA Vice President/President-Elect and President due to potential conflicts of interest. As noted in her Off the Record blog post,