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)

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