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Current S.A.A. President Helen Wong Smith in July 2023 at the Society of American Archivists and Council of State Archivists Joint Annual Meeting Open House at the National Archives in Washington, D.C. The Society of American Archivists is the oldest and largest archivist association in North America, serving the educational and informational ...
She is a member of the Society of American Archivists (SAA), Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference (MARAC), National Association of Government Archives and Records Administrators (NAGARA), and is a Certified Archivist with the Academy of Certified Archivists (ACA), where she served as a Regent from 1991–1994. [1]
The professional qualifications of archivists became an issue in the 1950s, when the Society of American Archivists (SAA) and the American Historical Association made the case that the archivist of the United States should be a professional, not political, appointee. The 1970s saw much internal SAA discussion of education and professional ...
Conway began his career in October, 1977, when he joined the staff of the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library as an archivist and worked there for 10 years. Between 1987 and 1989, Conway worked for the Society of American Archivists as a Preservation Program Officer.
Maynard J. Brichford (1926-2019) was an American archivist who served as the 35th president of the Society of American Archivists (SAA). [1] He was a leading academic archivist who established the archives program at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Current program priorities include the State Electronic Records Initiative (SERI), publishing guidance on email archiving, and providing a network of support. In 2018, the Society of American Archivists recognized CoSA with the Distinguished Service Award for the organization's significant contributions to the archives profession. [4]
Archivists with a PhD often work as teaching faculty, deans, or directors of archival programs. [54] In 2002, the Society of American Archivists published Guidelines for a Graduate Program in Archival Studies; [55] it also promotes and disseminates a code of ethics, [56] which has undergone several revisions since it was first adopted in 1980. [12]
Richard Pearce-Moses is an American archivist and educator. He was president of the Society of American Archivists in 2005–6. He was recognized by the Library of Congress for his work as a Digital Preservation Pioneer. He was the first director of the Master of Archival Studies (MAS) program at Clayton State University.