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Election 2010
Fourteen candidates vying for three different offices are slated on SAA’s 2010 ballot. Learn about the candidates here. Casting your vote online is easier than ever - use the big orange button between March 11 and April 11.
Send the Senate a “Snowstorm” of Support for PAHR!
Senators Orrin Hatch (R-UT) and Carl Levin (D-MI) will introduce the Preserving the American Historical Record legislation in the Senate very soon. (The House bill now has 60 co-sponsors!) But first they will send a “Dear Colleague” letter inviting other Senators to join them as sponsors. Now is the time to contact your Senators to tell them that this bill is of concern to you and your organization as their constituents – and to ask for their support. If we can move PAHR well in the Senate in the next month or two, the chances are very real that the bill could be voted on in both houses of Congress this year! See the PAHR web page for all the tools and information you need to contact your Senators!
International Relief for Haitian Cultural Heritage
SAA has received updates from several sources on international efforts to provide relief for Haitian cultural heritage. For information from UNESCO, the International Council on Archives, and the U.S. Committee of the Blue Shield, click here.
Bring a Little Sunshine to Your Week!
Sunshine Week, March 14 - 20, is a national initiative led by the American Society of Newspaper Editors to open a dialogue about the importance of open government and freedom of information. Participants include news media, civic groups, archives and libraries, nonprofits, schools, and others interested in the public's right to know. Take this opportunity to participate - and help spread the good word about archives and archivists. Click here for the 2010 Sunshine Week toolkit.
Actions Taken by the SAA Council
A strategic planning session on public awareness, a half-day joint meeting with CoSA Board of Directors to discuss strategies for ensuring passage of the PAHR act in 2010, and a meeting with Archivist of the United States David Ferriero were among the many activities tackled by the SAA Council at its February 2–4 meeting in Washington, D.C., before the blizzard hit! Read a complete summary of the meeting here.
SAA Council Posthumously Honors Studs Terkel
The SAA Council passed a resolution honoring renowned oral historian Louis "Studs" Terkel. Read the full resolution here.
Call for Papers for 75th Anniversary of SAA
The American Archivist Editorial Board invites proposals for papers to mark the 75th anniversary of SAA in the Fall/Winter 2011 issue. Read more here.
2010 SAA Research Forum “Foundations and Innovations” Call for Participants ★ Call for Presentations
The past three Research Forums have yielded great participant responses, confirming
that the full spectrum of research activities—from “pure” research to applied research
and innovative practice—is of interest and value to the archives community. The 2010
Research Forum will build on its previous success with a full day of presentations. [Read More]
It’s Here! Preserving Archives and Manuscripts
Hot off the press and ready for your reading is Preserving Archives and Manuscripts (2nd ed.) by Mary Lynn Ritzenthaler. Order your copy at a special promotional price of $36 today!
How Do You Document “Tweets”?
Case studies documenting the use of Twitter and virtual environments (Second Life, etc.) by archival repositories are wanted for The Interactive Archivist: Case Studies in Utilizing Web 2.0 to Improve the Archival Experience. Also welcome are case studies in areas such as blogging, social networking, tagging and folksonomies, mashups, RSS, wikis, photo sharing services, video sharing services, and podcasts. Click here for more info.
Research Forum Papers Published
Three research papers touching on EAC, social networks, and business process management from the 2009 Research Forum are now available. Click here to check out this new content from Nancy Hadley, Catherine Stollar Peters, and J. Gordon Daines III and Cory L. Nimer.
NYU to Host Discussion Series
Just what is “archival silence”? Check out this topic and others at New York University’s Spring 2010 “Discussing the Archive: Ideas, Practices and Institutions” series.
Letter to ALA Concerning “Traditional Cultural Expressions” Statement
On January 6, 2010, SAA President Peter Gottlieb responded to ALA on behalf of SAA about ALA's current draft statement (Draft 6) on traditional cultural expressions (available online at http://wo.ala.org/tce/). Click here for details.
A Peek at the Spring/Summer 2010 American Archivist
Production is underway, and the published issue will be available online and in print in May. Click here to view the issue’s Table of Contents.
Archival Haiku
More than 50 haiku written by archivists about the profession are captured in this clever collection. [Read more]
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 make a difference!
Orphan Works: Statement of Best Practices
SAA’s Intellectual Property Working Group has produced “Orphan Works: A Statement of Best Practices,” which provides information on reasonable efforts to identify and locate rights holders. Now available as a PDF 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/.
What Did You Do to“Save Our Archives”? |
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Ask not what your archives can do for you, but what you can do for your archives! On May 1, archivists around the country did something - even if it was something small - to prepare their archives for a disaster. Share your story at MayDay@archivists.org. Read more about disaster planning, MayDay, and what others have done in the past here. |
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