In the Loop for Tuesday, March 16, 2010
In the Loop is an electronic newsletter distributed via e-mail bi-weekly to provide
members with an update on SAA activities. Please contact the SAA office at
866-SAA-7858 (toll-free) if you have any questions.
Upcoming Deadlines
March 11–April 11: Cast your vote in the 2010 SAA election.
March 31: Deadline for participating in the “Periodicals Redesign Survey.”
May 1: Deadline for proposals for 75th Anniversary issue of American Archivist.
Vote Today!
Online voting for SAA’s 2010 Election is now open. Casting your vote online is
easier than ever by visiting SAA’s home page between March 11 and April 11 to select
the candidates of your choice vying for SAA office. All individual members, student
members, and primary contacts of institutional members who were in good standing on
February 28, 2010, are eligible to vote. Paper ballots may be requested by calling
1-866-722-7858 or e-mailing servicecenter@archivists.org. Paper ballots must be
requested by March 31, 2010, and postmarked no later than April 11, 2010.
2011 SAA Nomination Form
Please take this opportunity to suggest prospective candidates for the 2011 SAA
ballot. All submissions are confidential. Make your nomination today.
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 and here for a video
of a March 19 event on “Building Governmental Transparency.”
Hey, What Do You Think about SAA Periodicals?
SAA is embarking on a redesign of its periodicals—In the Loop, Archival Outlook, and
American Archivist. Tell us what you think by taking a brief survey (just 9
questions). Click here to participate by March 31.
March/April Archival Outlook Hits the Streets!
Take a look at Jackie Robinson giving batting tips to Connie Morgan, one of three
women to play in the Negro Leagues in the 1950s, and see how Negro League archives
played a role in a new U.S. Postal Stamp. The new issue also gives a peek at the
City of Vancouver’s Olympic archive acquisition and Archives*Records/DC 2010
educational sessions. Login now to read the electronic version. The print edition
will be mailed to members next week.
Tell the Senate Now Why PAHR Is Important to You!
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!
Call for Papers for 75th Anniversary of SAA
SAA will celebrate its 75th Anniversary in 2011. If you’d like to contribute to the
celebration—and see your name in print—here’s a great opportunity! The American
Archivist Editorial Board invites proposals for papers to be published in the
Fall/Winter 2011 issue to mark SAA’s 75th anniversary. The deadline is May 1. Read
more here.
New Procedures for Standards Review/Approval
At its February meeting the SAA Council adopted the Standards Committee’s
recommendations for an overhaul of the committee’s charge and procedures for
development and review of standards. To view the new documents, click here.
Preserving Archives and Manuscripts: Order Your Copy Today
Time is running out to purchase Preserving Archives and Manuscripts (2nd ed.) at the
special promotional rate of $36 (plus s/h). Secure your copy of Mary Lynn
Ritzenthaler’s must-read book today!
Other Preservation Resources . . .
Speaking of preservation, the British Library has a couple of resources also worth
investigating:
• An excellent pamphlet on “Damaged Books” and how to care for them.
• Helen Shenton’s presentation on strategic challenges for preservation, which
addresses the changing landscape (including user habits, user demands, and the
digital world) as well as outlining the British Library's strategy for preservation
and conservation within this context. Check out this set of two sound files totaling
30 minutes.
CLIR Requests Pre-proposals for Hidden Collections Grant
The Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) has opened the pre-proposal
application period for its Cataloging Hidden Special Collections and Archives grant
program. CLIR expects to award about $4 million in grants that range from $75,000 to
$500,000 to institutions holding collections of high scholarly value that are
difficult or impossible to locate through existing finding aids. The deadline for
submitting pre-proposals is April 23, 2010. Click here for more details.
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.
Feeling Groovy? Journal Issues from ‘70s and ‘80s Now Online!
Eighty back issues of the American Archivist—from January 1970 through Fall
1989—were added in February to the American Archivist Online website. Check out the
treasure trove of research articles, as well as interesting reports documenting
SAA’s evolution on the eve of its 75th anniversary.
Volumes 33 through 72 of the journal are now available digitally. With the exception
of the three most recent volumes (70–72), which are reserved for SAA members and
journal subscribers, this content is freely available to the public for the first
time. The remaining 128 back issues, from 1938 through 1969, are in various stages
of digitization, review, and posting. The next batch, including issues from 1951
through 1969, should be launched online by April, and the final batch (1938–1950) is
slated for June. The issues are being scanned by Backstage Library Works.
DC 2010 Registration Fees, Hotel Reservation Site Now Available
Begin planning for DC 2010! Click here for information about registration fees and
to access the headquarters hotel’s guest room reservation site.
Richard A. Baker Graduate Student Travel Grant Available
The Association of Centers for the Study of Congress (ACSC) is accepting
applications for the 2010 Richard A. Baker Graduate Research Travel Grant, which
supports graduate-level research conducted at member repositories of the Association
of Centers for the Study of Congress. An award of up to $500 may be used to
underwrite travel, lodging, copying, and other research expenses. For application
details, click here. Apply by April 18, 2010.
Check Out New Book on Web 2.0
Web 2.0 Tools and Strategies for Archives and Local History Collections by Kate Theimer
demystifies essential Web 2.0 concepts, tools, and buzzwords, and provides a
thorough introduction to new ways to interact with traditional audiences and attract
new ones.
Neal-Schuman Publishers, Inc., 2010 / 246 pp., Soft cover / Product Code:
BOOKRES-0565 / List Price: $79.95 / Member Price: $65.
Continuing Education
We’ve added more workshops from April to June—and more are in the works! With so
many topics to choose from, this is a great time to invest in your professional
future with continuing education from SAA. Take a look at the complete calendar.
Don’t see the topic of your choice? Contact us to bring a workshop to your location.
April/May/June Workshops—there’s space!
• Implementing “More Product, Less Process” in Washington and Georgia
• Describing Archives: A Content Standard: in Chicago and Tampa
• Oral History: From Planning to Preservation: early discount through 3/30
• Digital Libraries and Digital Archives: Just added
• A Guide to Balancing Legal Issues in Photograph Collections
• Fundamentals of Acquisition and Appraisal: Just added
• Style Sheets for EAD – Delivering Your Finding Aids on the Web
• Advanced Appraisal for Archivists
Web Seminars
• Register now for “Basics of Managing Electronic Records…Getting You Started!”
March 30 at 1:00 p.m. (US CT) with Geof Huth of the New York State Archives.
• If you missed live presentations of SAA’s topical Web seminars, they’re now
available Online On Demand. Access the Education Calendar under the Education and
Events menu on the home page and register to gain access for two months. OR, if
you’d rather have an audio CD to listen to while driving, go to the Publications
Catalog and check for CDs.
Attention Job Seekers!
Check out the following career opportunities posted to SAA’s Online Career Center:
• Appraisal Archivist / Bermuda Government Archives (Nationwide)
• Archival Digital Internship / San Francisco Symphony (San Francisco)
• Director / RBMSCL Duke University (Durham, North Carolina)
• Director of Information Services Librarian / American Philatelic Society
(Bellefonte, Pennsylvania)
• E-archivist / Inter-American Development Bank (Washington, D.C.)
• Grateful Dead Archive Project Manager / UC Santa Cruz (Santa Cruz, California)
• Head of University Archives & Area Research Center / University of Wisconsin,
River Falls (River Falls, Wisconsin)
• Project Archivist / Los Angeles County Museum of Art (Los Angeles)
• Tenure-Track Faculty Position / St. John's University (New York)
• University Archivist / University of North Carolina at Greensboro (Greensboro,
North Carolina)
• Video Archiving Summer Internship 2010 / Glenstone (Potomac, Maryland)
• Western History Archivist / Casper College (Casper, Wyoming)
* * *
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
In the Loop for Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
The Famous Mr. Brothman
From the [archhist] roundtable (read until end. It sounds like if you go to DC2010
you can actually meet him:
Brien:
I couldn't say "wrong," but Libraries & the Cultural Record
absolutely is a journal you should consider. Here are reasons why:
1. The journal has been expanding its scope ever since it was founded
as the Journal of Library History 40-plus years ago. Under my
editorship, it is the journal of the history of the information
domain. We are very consciously including pieces from each of the
fields of the information domain--libraries and librarianship, archives
and archival enterprise, information science in all its breadth,
preservation and conservation of the cultural record, and museum
administration and history museums. Moreover, under my leadership, we
are consciously not following others
in the library field who are focusing on the history of books and
reading. While the word "history" is not in our title, and has not
been for more than 30 years, this has consistently been a journal of
history.
2. The title is an expansion from its previous Libraries &
Culture. As we mature as the journal of the history of the
information domain, perhaps someday another title may be more
appropriate. Nothing of that sort is even being contemplated at this
point, particularly because in making the change we have made, we could
not afford to appear to abandon a solid and valuable audience while
building another that must include the first one.
3. A number of substantial pieces dealing with archival history have
been published in our pages through the years, and under the new title,
that number is increasing. We published papers from the Boston I-CHORA
and will publish ones from the 2012 Austin I-CHORA. When that happens,
we will be the first journal to publish papers from more than one. I
have argued for sometime that I-CHORA should identify a journal of
record so that we all know where to look for the papers. Since we are
not affiliated with any association, we are the best choice in my
view. With the 2012 set of papers, we will voice this again loudly,
and having two in our pages, can make a strong case for our journal.
Beyond this, we will open the SAA's 75th anniversary year with a dandy
piece offering what I believe readers will find to be a significant
interpretation of the French experience with archives from the
Revolution to Respect des Fonds. Other pieces on archives are in the
works. The bottom line is that L&CR publishes more pieces dealing
with the history of archives than do other archival journals.
4. In the recent ranking of the Australian Research Council of
20,000-plus journals developed over a two-year period, L&CR fared
very well. We learned of the ranking from the announcement posted on
the ICA list! Here is the statement you can find on our website
reporting this ranking (Note the sentence about our ranking vis-a-vis
archival journals):
Libraries & the Cultural Record has been rated among the
top twenty percent of journals in its field by the Australian Research
Council in a ranking of scholarly journals worldwide. In the category
of library and information studies, 148 journals were ranked on a
four-step scale of A+, A, B, and C. Libraries & the Cultural Record
received an A rating, one of only 30 in the LIS field receiving either
an A or A+ rating. Just six journals (4 percent) received the A+
ranking. Among the 13 archival journals on the list, only two ranked
higher than Libraries & the Cultural Record.
Libraries & the Cultural Record
is a multi-disciplinary research journal that explores the history of
the information domain and especially the broad history of collections
of knowledge that form the cultural record. The peer-reviewed
quarterly journal is edited in the University of Texas School of
Information and is published by University of Texas Press.
According to the Australian Research Council,
for journals ranked A, the majority of papers . . . will be of very
high quality. Publishing in an A journal would enhance the author's
standing, showing they have real engagement with the global research
community and that they have something to say about problems of some
significance.
The Australian Research Council, a government
agency, worked for two years to complete the job of ranking 20,712
unique peer-reviewed journals published worldwide. The database of
rankings is available at: http://www.arc.gov.au/era/era_journal_list.htm.
So, I believe you cannot do better than Libraries & the
Cultural Record as a venue for publishing archival history (and one
certainly can do worse), especially works that explore the history of
archival enterprise as it has been intertwined with the history of one
or more other components of the information domain. We mean to be a
major participant in the discussion of archival history. Our
increasing content testifies to it. And now the recent ranking
documents that we are doing so.
I thank you very much for your inquiry and look forward to being in
contact about a submission from you.
All the best.
XXXX
XXXX:
Thanks for taking the time to respond in such detail to my comment on "Libraries and
the Cultural Record." I have had the opportunity to read a number of contributions
to the journal and found them to be of very high quality. So, I did not at all
intend to impugn the journal.
Nevertheless, in light of what you say about the journal's broadened mandate, the
title is misleading. Indeed, it seems to sell the journal short. This may be one
more bit of evidence that our language and frames of reference are tending to lag
behind technological, social and cultural developments. As you well know,
information technology studies is an evolving field - perhaps at the very beginning
of its evolution - in which many disparate interests are attempting to bring closure
to what we mean by "information technology", "information studies" and so on.
All the more important, then, for archivists to bring historical perspectives to
bear on their understanding and interpretation of the shaping of what seems
traditional and different about our "information society", "information studies",
etc. For example, some bits of historical analysis argue that the information
revolution is nothing but a hyped up reincarnation of late nineteenth - early
twentieth century industrial production systems in the guise of hypermanagement as
well as gussied up parts (code) and rules standardization.
Hope to continue this in Washington at SAA.
Brien
Friday, March 5, 2010
SAA, In the Loop for Tuesday, March 3, 2010
In the Loop for Tuesday, March 3, 2010
In the Loop is an electronic newsletter distributed via e-mail bi-weekly to provide
members with an update on SAA activities. Please contact the SAA office at
866-SAA-7858 (toll-free) if you have any questions.
Upcoming Deadlines
By March 5: “Storm” the Senate for PAHR!
By March 31: Order Preserving Archives and Manuscripts at the special promotional rate!
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!
SAA 2010 Election: Are You Ready to Vote?
Online voting for SAA’s 2010 Election will take place March 11−April 11, 2010.
All individual members, student members, and primary contacts of institutional
members who were in good standing as of February 28, 2010, are eligible to vote.
Paper ballots may be requested by calling 1-866-722-7858 or e-mailing
servicecenter@archivists.org. A paper ballot will be sent to you via first-class
mail, along with complete candidate information. Paper ballots must be requested by
March 31, 2010, and postmarked no later than April 11, 2010. In the meantime, read
candidate statements and biographies here.
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.
Feeling Groovy? Journal Issues from ‘70s and ‘80s Now Online!
Eighty back issues of the American Archivist—from January 1970 through Fall
1989—were added in February to the American Archivist Online website. Check out the
treasure trove of research articles, as well as interesting reports documenting
SAA’s evolution on the eve of its 75th anniversary.
Volumes 33 through 72 of the journal are now available digitally. With the exception
of the three most recent volumes (70–72), which are reserved for SAA members and
journal subscribers, this content is freely available to the public for the first
time. The remaining 128 back issues, from 1938 through 1969, are in various stages
of digitization, review, and posting. The next batch, including issues from 1951
through 1969, should be launched online by April, and the final batch (1938–1950) is
slated for June. The issues are being scanned by Backstage Library Works.
JSTOR and the American Archivist
In February JSTOR reported that American Archivist was at the halfway point of the
release process! All 72 volumes of the journal are undergoing the digitization
process. Once JSTOR receives the dataset files, they will undergo quality-control
testing and data processing before release. For most titles at this stage, a target
release date of six to eight months is anticipated—which means that by September the
entire run of the American Archivist would also be available through JSTOR.
SAA signed an agreement in April 2009 to have American Archivist participate in
JSTOR, an independent not-for-profit organization that is dedicated to making a wide
range of intellectual content available in a trusted digital archive. Currently the
JSTOR archive includes the complete back runs of more than 1,000 journals, which are
available to libraries. American Archivist would be part of the newly developing
Arts and Sciences VI collection under “Library and Information Sciences.” SAA member
Charles Schultz and two anonymous libraries generously donated back issues of the
journal for use by JSTOR.
DC 2010 Registration Fees, Hotel Reservation Site Now Available
Begin planning for DC 2010! Click here for information about registration fees and
to access the headquarters hotel’s guest room reservation site.
Check Out New Book on Web 2.0
Web 2.0 Tools and Strategies for Archives and Local History Collections by Kate Theimer
demystifies essential Web 2.0 concepts, tools, and buzzwords, and provides a
thorough introduction to new ways to interact with traditional audiences and attract
new ones.
Neal-Schuman Publishers, Inc., 2010 / 246 pp., Soft cover / Product Code:
BOOKRES-0565 / List Price: $79.95 / Member Price: $65.
Call for Papers for 75th Anniversary of SAA
SAA will celebrate its 75th Anniversary in 2011. If you’d like to contribute to the
celebration—and see your name in print—here’s a great opportunity! The American
Archivist Editorial Board invites proposals for papers to be published in the
Fall/Winter 2011 issue to mark SAA’s 75th anniversary. The deadline is May 1. Read
more here.
Archivist Employment Up, Says Bureau of Labor Statistics
Curators, archivists, and museum technicians are among the professions projected to
show "much faster than average employment growth" over the next eight years,
according to the U.S. Department of Labor. The projections for 2008 to 2018 appear
in the latest Bureau of Labor Statistics' Occupational Outlook Handbook, released at
the end of 2009. Its job outlook for the three occupations calls for a 20 percent
increase over 10 years. Broken down, museum technicians and conservators are
supposed to increase 26 percent, curators 23 percent, and archivists 7 percent. Read
more here.
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.
Preserving Archives and Manuscripts Is Here!
Hot-off-the-press and ready for your reading is Preserving Archives and Manuscripts
(2nd ed.) by Mary Lynn Ritzenthaler. Time is running out to buy a copy at the
special promotional rate of $36. Click here to order your copy today!
2009 Research Forum Papers Now Available
Click here to check out this new content:
• “‘Everything About This Person’: Name-Based Access to Multiple Resources Using
EAC,” by Nancy Hadley.
• “Searching for ‘Spitzer’ in the Archives: Drawing New Conclusions from
‘Troopergate’ Using Archival Records and Social Networking Analysis,”
by Catherine Stollar Peters.
• “Tapping Our Potential: Business Process Management and Archival Content
Management Systems,” by J. Gordon Daines III and Cory L. Nimer.
Plan for Preservation on March 18
The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) will host its 24th Annual
Preservation Conference, "Plan for Preservation: Assess, Prioritize and Manage,"
March 18, 2010, at the William G. McGowan Theater in Washington, D.C. Take a look at
the event schedule that begins with an introduction by Archivist of the United
States David S. Ferreiro.
National Preservation Week, May 9–15, 2010
Pass It On: Saving Heritage and Memories
This May take the time to highlight your institution as a source of preservation
information. SAA has joined the American Library Association, the Library of
Congress, and the Institute for Museum and Library Services as a partner in
celebrating National Preservation Week, May 9−15, 2010. During this week, SAA
asks institutions to connect our communities through events, activities, and
resources that highlight what we can do to preserve our personal and shared
collections.
• Create a display about preserving and collecting personal, family, or community
heritage.
• Offer a preservation workshop or event.
• Highlight Preservation Week on your website with a link to ALA’s Preservation Week
resources.
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.
Save the Date: Western Roundup 2010
Mark your calendars for Western Roundup 2010, held at the Renaissance Hotel in
Seattle from April 28 through May 1. This is a joint meeting sponsored by Northwest
Archivists, Conference of Inter-Mountain Archivists, Society of California
Archivists, and Rocky Mountain Archivists. For more details click here.
Continuing Education
We’ve added more workshops from April to June—and more are in the works! With so
many topics to choose from, this is a great time to invest in your professional
future with continuing education from SAA. Take a look at the complete calendar.
Don’t see the topic of your choice? Contact us to bring a workshop to your location.
March/April Workshops—there’s still space!
• Implementing “More Product, Less Process” in North Carolina and Washington
• Understanding Photographs: Introduction to Archival Principles and Practices
• Fundamentals of Acquisition and Appraisal
• Arrangement and Description of Manuscript Collections: Just added
• Project Management for Archivists
• Visual Literacy for Photograph Collections: early discount through 3/6
• Describing Archives: A Content Standard: early discount through 3/21
• Oral History: From Planning to Preservation: early discount through 3/30
• Digital Libraries and Digital Archives: Just added
Web Seminars
• Register now for “Basics of Managing Electronic Records…Getting You Started!”
March 30 at 1:00 p.m. (US CT) with Geof Huth of the New York State Archives.
• If you missed live presentations of SAA’s topical Web seminars, they’re now
available Online On Demand. Access the Education Calendar under the Education and
Events menu on the home page and register to gain access for two months. OR, if
you’d rather have an audio CD to listen to while driving, go to the Publications
Catalog and check for CDs.
Attention Job Seekers!
Check out the following career opportunities posted to SAA’s Online Career Center:
• Appraisal Archivist / Government of Bermuda BMU (Nationwide)
• Archival Digital Internship / San Francisco Symphony (San Francisco, California)
• Archivist / Crown Family Philanthropies (Chicago)
• Archivist / Saving & Preserving Arts & Cultural Environments (Aptos, California)
• Coordinator / University Archives and Records Mgmt., Emory University Libraries
(Atlanta)
• Corporate Archivist / HSBC (Mettawa, Illinois)
• Director / Master of Archival Studies Program, Clayton State University (Morrow,
Georgia)
• Director / RBMSCL Duke University (Durham, North Carolina)
• E-Archivist / Inter-American Development Bank (Washington D.C.)
• Eastern Regional Archivist / Office of the Secretary of State (Washington)
• Head / Special Collections and Archives, University of Idaho Library (Moscow, Idaho)
• Lib. Svc. Spec. Archivist for Special Collections / Sacramento Public Library
(Sacramento, California)
• Librarian / William Gilmore Simms Curator, University of South Carolina (Columbia,
South Carolina)
• Records Officer / Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory (Niskayuna, New York)
• Technical Archivist / John Deere (Moline, Illinois)
• Western History Archivist / Casper College (Casper, Wyoming)
* * *
In the Loop is an electronic newsletter distributed via e-mail bi-weekly to provide
members with an update on SAA activities. Please contact the SAA office at
866-SAA-7858 (toll-free) if you have any questions.
Upcoming Deadlines
By March 5: “Storm” the Senate for PAHR!
By March 31: Order Preserving Archives and Manuscripts at the special promotional rate!
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!
SAA 2010 Election: Are You Ready to Vote?
Online voting for SAA’s 2010 Election will take place March 11−April 11, 2010.
All individual members, student members, and primary contacts of institutional
members who were in good standing as of February 28, 2010, are eligible to vote.
Paper ballots may be requested by calling 1-866-722-7858 or e-mailing
servicecenter@archivists.org. A paper ballot will be sent to you via first-class
mail, along with complete candidate information. Paper ballots must be requested by
March 31, 2010, and postmarked no later than April 11, 2010. In the meantime, read
candidate statements and biographies here.
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.
Feeling Groovy? Journal Issues from ‘70s and ‘80s Now Online!
Eighty back issues of the American Archivist—from January 1970 through Fall
1989—were added in February to the American Archivist Online website. Check out the
treasure trove of research articles, as well as interesting reports documenting
SAA’s evolution on the eve of its 75th anniversary.
Volumes 33 through 72 of the journal are now available digitally. With the exception
of the three most recent volumes (70–72), which are reserved for SAA members and
journal subscribers, this content is freely available to the public for the first
time. The remaining 128 back issues, from 1938 through 1969, are in various stages
of digitization, review, and posting. The next batch, including issues from 1951
through 1969, should be launched online by April, and the final batch (1938–1950) is
slated for June. The issues are being scanned by Backstage Library Works.
JSTOR and the American Archivist
In February JSTOR reported that American Archivist was at the halfway point of the
release process! All 72 volumes of the journal are undergoing the digitization
process. Once JSTOR receives the dataset files, they will undergo quality-control
testing and data processing before release. For most titles at this stage, a target
release date of six to eight months is anticipated—which means that by September the
entire run of the American Archivist would also be available through JSTOR.
SAA signed an agreement in April 2009 to have American Archivist participate in
JSTOR, an independent not-for-profit organization that is dedicated to making a wide
range of intellectual content available in a trusted digital archive. Currently the
JSTOR archive includes the complete back runs of more than 1,000 journals, which are
available to libraries. American Archivist would be part of the newly developing
Arts and Sciences VI collection under “Library and Information Sciences.” SAA member
Charles Schultz and two anonymous libraries generously donated back issues of the
journal for use by JSTOR.
DC 2010 Registration Fees, Hotel Reservation Site Now Available
Begin planning for DC 2010! Click here for information about registration fees and
to access the headquarters hotel’s guest room reservation site.
Check Out New Book on Web 2.0
Web 2.0 Tools and Strategies for Archives and Local History Collections by Kate Theimer
demystifies essential Web 2.0 concepts, tools, and buzzwords, and provides a
thorough introduction to new ways to interact with traditional audiences and attract
new ones.
Neal-Schuman Publishers, Inc., 2010 / 246 pp., Soft cover / Product Code:
BOOKRES-0565 / List Price: $79.95 / Member Price: $65.
Call for Papers for 75th Anniversary of SAA
SAA will celebrate its 75th Anniversary in 2011. If you’d like to contribute to the
celebration—and see your name in print—here’s a great opportunity! The American
Archivist Editorial Board invites proposals for papers to be published in the
Fall/Winter 2011 issue to mark SAA’s 75th anniversary. The deadline is May 1. Read
more here.
Archivist Employment Up, Says Bureau of Labor Statistics
Curators, archivists, and museum technicians are among the professions projected to
show "much faster than average employment growth" over the next eight years,
according to the U.S. Department of Labor. The projections for 2008 to 2018 appear
in the latest Bureau of Labor Statistics' Occupational Outlook Handbook, released at
the end of 2009. Its job outlook for the three occupations calls for a 20 percent
increase over 10 years. Broken down, museum technicians and conservators are
supposed to increase 26 percent, curators 23 percent, and archivists 7 percent. Read
more here.
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.
Preserving Archives and Manuscripts Is Here!
Hot-off-the-press and ready for your reading is Preserving Archives and Manuscripts
(2nd ed.) by Mary Lynn Ritzenthaler. Time is running out to buy a copy at the
special promotional rate of $36. Click here to order your copy today!
2009 Research Forum Papers Now Available
Click here to check out this new content:
• “‘Everything About This Person’: Name-Based Access to Multiple Resources Using
EAC,” by Nancy Hadley.
• “Searching for ‘Spitzer’ in the Archives: Drawing New Conclusions from
‘Troopergate’ Using Archival Records and Social Networking Analysis,”
by Catherine Stollar Peters.
• “Tapping Our Potential: Business Process Management and Archival Content
Management Systems,” by J. Gordon Daines III and Cory L. Nimer.
Plan for Preservation on March 18
The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) will host its 24th Annual
Preservation Conference, "Plan for Preservation: Assess, Prioritize and Manage,"
March 18, 2010, at the William G. McGowan Theater in Washington, D.C. Take a look at
the event schedule that begins with an introduction by Archivist of the United
States David S. Ferreiro.
National Preservation Week, May 9–15, 2010
Pass It On: Saving Heritage and Memories
This May take the time to highlight your institution as a source of preservation
information. SAA has joined the American Library Association, the Library of
Congress, and the Institute for Museum and Library Services as a partner in
celebrating National Preservation Week, May 9−15, 2010. During this week, SAA
asks institutions to connect our communities through events, activities, and
resources that highlight what we can do to preserve our personal and shared
collections.
• Create a display about preserving and collecting personal, family, or community
heritage.
• Offer a preservation workshop or event.
• Highlight Preservation Week on your website with a link to ALA’s Preservation Week
resources.
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.
Save the Date: Western Roundup 2010
Mark your calendars for Western Roundup 2010, held at the Renaissance Hotel in
Seattle from April 28 through May 1. This is a joint meeting sponsored by Northwest
Archivists, Conference of Inter-Mountain Archivists, Society of California
Archivists, and Rocky Mountain Archivists. For more details click here.
Continuing Education
We’ve added more workshops from April to June—and more are in the works! With so
many topics to choose from, this is a great time to invest in your professional
future with continuing education from SAA. Take a look at the complete calendar.
Don’t see the topic of your choice? Contact us to bring a workshop to your location.
March/April Workshops—there’s still space!
• Implementing “More Product, Less Process” in North Carolina and Washington
• Understanding Photographs: Introduction to Archival Principles and Practices
• Fundamentals of Acquisition and Appraisal
• Arrangement and Description of Manuscript Collections: Just added
• Project Management for Archivists
• Visual Literacy for Photograph Collections: early discount through 3/6
• Describing Archives: A Content Standard: early discount through 3/21
• Oral History: From Planning to Preservation: early discount through 3/30
• Digital Libraries and Digital Archives: Just added
Web Seminars
• Register now for “Basics of Managing Electronic Records…Getting You Started!”
March 30 at 1:00 p.m. (US CT) with Geof Huth of the New York State Archives.
• If you missed live presentations of SAA’s topical Web seminars, they’re now
available Online On Demand. Access the Education Calendar under the Education and
Events menu on the home page and register to gain access for two months. OR, if
you’d rather have an audio CD to listen to while driving, go to the Publications
Catalog and check for CDs.
Attention Job Seekers!
Check out the following career opportunities posted to SAA’s Online Career Center:
• Appraisal Archivist / Government of Bermuda BMU (Nationwide)
• Archival Digital Internship / San Francisco Symphony (San Francisco, California)
• Archivist / Crown Family Philanthropies (Chicago)
• Archivist / Saving & Preserving Arts & Cultural Environments (Aptos, California)
• Coordinator / University Archives and Records Mgmt., Emory University Libraries
(Atlanta)
• Corporate Archivist / HSBC (Mettawa, Illinois)
• Director / Master of Archival Studies Program, Clayton State University (Morrow,
Georgia)
• Director / RBMSCL Duke University (Durham, North Carolina)
• E-Archivist / Inter-American Development Bank (Washington D.C.)
• Eastern Regional Archivist / Office of the Secretary of State (Washington)
• Head / Special Collections and Archives, University of Idaho Library (Moscow, Idaho)
• Lib. Svc. Spec. Archivist for Special Collections / Sacramento Public Library
(Sacramento, California)
• Librarian / William Gilmore Simms Curator, University of South Carolina (Columbia,
South Carolina)
• Records Officer / Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory (Niskayuna, New York)
• Technical Archivist / John Deere (Moline, Illinois)
• Western History Archivist / Casper College (Casper, Wyoming)
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