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SAA Position Statements and Resolutions

2008

• Joint Statement on Iraqi Records

2007

2006

• Letter to U.S. Archivist Allen Weinstein Regarding Reclassification of Records

2005

• Joint Statement on Hurricane Relief
• Statement on Orphan Works (PDF)
  • Further comments and clarification (PDF)

2004

• Joint Statement: “Sale of Historical Public Records on eBay”
• Statement for the Record on the Nomination of Allen Weinstein to Become Archivist of the United States
• Statement on the Renewal of the USA PATRIOT Act
• Statement on U.S. Supreme Court Ruling Regarding Cheney Energy Task Force Case
• Joint Statement on Selection Criteria for the Archivist of the United States
• Joint Statement on Questions to Ask the Nominee for Archivist of the United States
• Statement on the Nomination of Allen Weinstein to Become Archivist of the United States

2003

• SAA-ARMA Statement of Joint Purpose and Cooperation
• SAA Statement on Iraqi Archives
• Statement on the Importance of Supporting State Archival Programs

2002

• SAA President Peter Hirtle's Letter in Response to the Closing of the Teachers College Special Collections Department
• SAA Resolution on Diversity
• SAA Response to NARA Advanced Notice on Proposed Rulemaking on Electronic Records (PDF format)

2001

• SAA President Steve Hensen's editorial, "The President's Papers Are the People's Business," published in The Washington Post, Sunday, December 16, 2001
• SAA responds to Executive Order 13233 on Presidential Papers
• SAA Comments on the Hague Convention on Jurisdiction and Foreign Judgments in Commercial and Civil Cases
• Endorsement of UNESCO Resolution on Digital Preservation
• SAA Council's Response to Nicholson Baker's Double Fold

2000

• SAA Resolution in Support of the Organization of American Historians re: HBE/Adam's Mark
• Council Resolution Regarding Adam's Mark Hotel Chain (January 30, 2000)

1999

• Testimony Submitted by H. Thomas Hickerson to the Committee on Government Reform's Subcommittee on Government Management, Information, and Technology (October 20, 1999)
• SAA Statement on Diversity (June 13, 1999)
• Resolution on the Systematic Destruction of Archives in Kosovo and War-Caused Devastation of Archives Throughout Yugoslavia (April 14, 1999)
• SAA Statement on Copyright Issues for Archives in Distance Education (February 5, 1999)

1998

• SAA Supports Petition to Open Grand Jury Testimony Related to Alger Hiss Indictments (December 1998)
• Letter to Senators John Warner and Daniel Patrick Moynihan re: amendment to PL104-106 to delay declassification of federal documents (September 5, 1998)
• Annual Business Meeting Resolution on the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (September 4, 1998)
• Resolution Opposing Any Extension to Copyright Term Extension Act (September 1998)
• SAA Position Statement on NARA Space Study (July 1998)

1997

• SAA Opposition to Copyright Term Extension Act (November 7, 1997)
• Archival Roles for the New Millennium (August 1997)
• Basic Principles for Managing Intellectual Property in the Digital Environment: An Archival Perspective (August 1997)
• Statement on the Preservation of Digitized Reproductions (June 9, 1997)
• Copyright, Archival Institutions and the Digital Environment (June 1997)
• The Preservation of Digitized Reproductions (June 1997)
• Archival Issues Raised by Litigation: Challenging General Records Schedule 20 (May 1997)
• Response to "Criteria for the Hiring and Retention of Visual Resource Professionals" (January 27, 1997)

1996

• Resolution in Support of the National Endowment for the Humanities (February 1995)
• SAA Response to the Draft Guidelines for Digital Images Developed by the Conference on Fair Use (June 4,1995)
• Critical Archival Concerns and Interests in the Development and Implementation of the National Information Infrastructure (June 1995)
• Concerns Over the Sudden Dismissal of the Massachusetts State Archivist (June 1995)
• Archival Issues Raised by Information Stored in Electronic Form (March 1995)

before 1995

• ALA-SAA Joint Statement of Access: Guidelines for Access to Original Research Materials (August 1994)
• Statement Concerning the Closing of Archives (June 23, 1990)
• Statement on the Reproduction of Manuscripts and Archives for Reference Service (July 1976) (PDF)

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