ARCS Steering Committee Nominations 2025
VICE CHAIR:
1.
Alex Palma
Lasallian Legacy Baltimore District
Philadelphia branch of Lasallian DENA Archives
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Bio:
Alex Palma is an Archivist for the Lasallian District of Eastern North America and works out of La Salle University. Prior to his current role, Alex served in a variety of different capacities at Museums and Historic Sites throughout Philadelphia. He is a proud member of the Organizing Team for...
The election is now open! You can view the candidate statements here.
Important Dates:The elections will open on Monday, June 23 and remain open through Monday, July 15.
When you're ready to vote, please use this link and click on the Native American Archives Section ballot.
Please note that you must be a current member of the Society of American Archivists (SAA) to participate in the election.
Thank you for supporting NAAS leadership. Your voice matters!
The election is now open! You can view the candidate statements here.
Important Dates:The elections will open on Monday, June 23 and remain open through Monday, July 15.
When you're ready to vote, please use this link and click on the Native American Archives Section ballot.
Please note that you must be a current member of the Society of American Archivists (SAA) to participate in the election.
Thank you for supporting NAAS leadership. Your voice matters!
Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect
Lori Schwartz
Hagel and Technical Services Archivist, University of Nebraska at Omaha
I have worked at the University of Nebraska at Omaha's Archives and Special Collections for ten years. I was first hired to manage the U.S. Senator Chuck Hagel Archives. In 2021, I picked up additional responsibilities of directing arrangement and description for the rest of the department's manuscript collections. Prior to 2015, I was Special Projects Archivist at South Carolina...
The Diverse Sexuality and Gender Section co-chairs are proposing changes to the standing rules of this section.
General changes throughout the Standing Rules:
Inclusive pronoun usage
modify LGBTQIA to LGBTQIA+
Changes regarding Article 4. Governance include:
Defining the Social Media / Web Liaison(s) position and responsibilities
Establishing a Program Coordinator position
Establishing an option for past-chairs to join the Steering Committee and serve a term of two years ...
The Webinar was hosted by Rachael Woody of Rachael Cristine Consulting LLC. Rachael discussed how she set up her business, reviewed business and financial logistics, revealed how to select an appropriate consulting rate, and offered her tips and tricks for successfully entering the consulting world.
Rachael presented for about 45 minutes and then answer questions from the audience. If you have a question you’d like to ask Rachael, connect directly at 503-922-3402, consulting@rachaelcristine.com...
Thank you to everyone who shared and responded to the 2025 Accessibility and Disability Section election call for candidates! We appreciate all seven of the nominations that we received and are glad to see a full slate and another competitive election. The names and statements of the candidates are posted below. Please take a few minutes to review them.
Section members will be voting for:
3 Steering Committee members (two-year terms)
1 Student/early-career member (one-year term)
1 Vice Chair/...
The next edition of the Business Archives Section Quarterly (BASQ) is in the works!
This time we are dealing with the ways in which corporate archives are managing during the COVID-19 pandemic. This is an unusual time for us all, and we are interested in hearing how business archivists are supporting their companies. We've had some great conversations on the message board about this topic and want to take it to the newsletter.
You can check out the threads “Your Responses to COVID-19” (March 19...
The Business Archives Section is opening a position for an Early Career Member on the section steering committee. This position is intended for individuals starting out in the field to have an opportunity to be mentored by section leaders, and expand their leadership skills and resources. Immediate responsibilities will include supporting the Newsletter, the Quarterly Conference Calls, and the Education Director, but may be tailored to individual interests. This position is open to students and...
Hello,
My company is looking at changing its current servers and backups to Amazon WorkDocs. I do not have any experience with this so I am looking for feedback from people who do. I need to be able to maintain security, access, and digital preservation over our records, which includes over 27TB of dervived digital images, born digital images, and moving images. Any thoughts positive or negative would be appreciated. I have cross posted my question, I do apologize if you receive it multiiple...
The Accessibility & Disability Section has launched a refreshed and revamped website with resources, information about the section, and the ADS blog. Find the new ADS site at saadisabilityarchivists.wordpress.com.
The Reference, Access, and Outreach Section (RAO) of the Society of American Archivists (SAA) seeks proposals for the 2024 Marketplace of IDEAs to be held during the Virtual Annual Meeting on Thursday, July 25, 2024 at 4pm EDT/3pm CDT/2pm MDT/1pm PDT.
Topics related to the sub-committee areas of Teaching with Primary Sources, Exhibits and Events, and Public Services Assessment are encouraged.Proposals addressing topics or themes related to the following will also be prioritized:- evolving the...
The Accessioning, Acquisitions, and Appraisal Section Steering Committee has proposed the following wording changes to the section's standing rules to acknowledge maintenance of the Archival Accessioning Best Practices. Section members will vote on these changes during the upcoming election.
The proposed wording changes are underlined below:
I. PurposeThe purpose of the Accessioning, Acquisitions, and Appraisal Section of the Society of American Archivists (SAA) is to provide a forum for...
Thank you to all of our excellent candidates for standing in the 2025 Metadata and Digital Object Section (MDOS) election. Please take some time to review their candidate statements and get to know them so you can make an informed choice.
You will be voting for:
Three year terms:
Co-Chair (vote for 1)
Steering Committee Member (vote for 3)
Ballots will be managed by SAA staff through Survey Monkey; keep an eye on your inbox for when the ballot opens!
Co-Chair Candidate
The following...
VICE CHAIR/CHAIR ELECT
Alex Palma
Lasallian Legacy Baltimore District
Philadelphia branch of Lasallian DENA Archives
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Alex Palma is an Archivist for the Lasallian District of Eastern North America and works out of La Salle University. Prior to his current role, Alex served in a variety of different capacities at Museums and Historic Sites throughout Philadelphia. He is a proud member of the Organizing Team for Archives 4 Black Lives in...
"Community Chat on Student Involvement in Oral History Projects"
Date: April 24, 2025
Speaker: Gillian Goldberg (they/them), University of the Pacific; Elisa Villalpando (she/her), University of the Pacific
Recording available!
The Steering Committee of the Archival History Section is pleased to invite you to our annual meeting on July 31 from 1:00pm to 2:30pm CT (beginning 2:00 pm EST, 12:00 pm MT, 11:00 am PT). We will report on business of the year and present the Archival History Article Awards. Then, we will hear from invited speaker, Christopher Livingston, Director, Historical Research Center at California State University, Bakersfield about the current work at the HRC. Below is a biography and summary of his...
The SAA Oral History Section invites you to join us Thursday, September 26, 2024 at 1-2pm EST for a community chat with Archivist David Olson about his recently published article in the American Archivist, “Forms, Formations, and Reforms,” on the evolution of the oral history release form from its origins to current practices and future trends. The event will consist of a conversation between Olson and OHS Chair Cyrana Dowell, followed by an audience Q&A. We encourage you to read the...
Dear SAA members!
I am thrilled to announce the final Archival Vistas Briefings Seminar for the 2024-2025 season from the International Archival Affairs Section (IAAS).
As you might recall, the Archival Vistas Briefings virtual program series began in 2023 and discusses a topic or theme of international focus. The theme for 2024-2025 is archival standards and how we experience and use them. In each seminar, an international guest speaker(s) introduces attendees to how they have interacted...
Samantha Bradbeer, Archivist and Historian, Hallmark Cards, Inc.
Samantha Bradbeer spends her days at Hallmark making sure that an accurate and varied record of company, family, and product history is preserved for future generations.
As the company archivist and historian, Bradbeer oversees the preservation of advertisements, audio visual materials, chromolithographs, company records, greeting cards and other products, original artwork, postcards, progressive proof books, rare books, prints...
The Reference, Access, & Outreach (RAO) Section of the Society of American Archivists (SAA) is seeking nominees for election to the following positions:
(2) Steering Committee Member-at-Large - two year commitment (1) Vice-chair/Chair-elect - three year commitment
All positions begin at the 2024 Annual Meeting. Nominations can be made via the Google Form link below by May 30, 2024 Extended Deadline for Elected Positions: June 7, 2024. For more information and details on roles and...
A Talk by Karolina Hedström, Stockholm County Museum, Sweden and Bente Jensen, Aalborg City Archives, Denmark
Wednesday, May 14th 2025, 11am EDT (8am PDT; 4pm BST)
Register for the online event
This talk will present the Connect to Collect, a collaborative network of museums and archives dedicated to collecting and preserving social digital photography. Through the development of the innovative web app Connect to Collect, we aim to explore new methods for gathering and curating this vital form...
A group of "engineers, designers, business executives, and others" created and signed a pledge vowing not to create a database of individuals based on their religious beliefs. In doing so, the writers of the pledge acknowledge the role of technology in human rights abuses throughout history and vow to identify and advocate against the targeting of marginalized communities such as Muslims and immigrants.
The full pledge can be found at http://neveragain.tech/
Pride month is here! Do you want to learn about the latest on LGBTQIA2S+ oral history projects and their archival considerations? Join us at the 37th Annual Meeting of the Diverse Sexuality and Gender Section (SAA-DSGS) on July, 7th, 2025 from 11am to 12.30pm (central). Following brief Section’s business meetings, we’ll hear from two young professionals on this topic:
01-“Visibility is Survival”: Changes to the LGBTQ+ Oral History Inventory at the University of Wisconsin-Madison by David...
