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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 ...
The American Archivist is a biannual peer-reviewed academic journal and the official publication of the Society of American Archivists. It covers theoretical and practical developments in archival science, particularly in North America. The journal contains essays, case studies, perspectives, and reviews of recent books
Grover was a founding member of the Society of American Archivists and served as its president from 1953 to 1954. He also served as the Western Hemisphere vice president of the International Council on Archives. He died of cancer at his home in Silver Spring, Maryland. [5] [6]
In 1942, he became the first African-American archivist employed at the National Archives of the United States. [2] He was also the first African-American to become a fellow of the Society of American Archivists and to be editor of the journal The American Archivist. He was an expert in agricultural archives, and served as president of the ...
Terry Cook was instrumental in the development of archival theory at the end of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st. His scholarship covered archival appraisal, theories of the archive, total archives, postmodernism, community archives, the fonds and series systems of arrangement and description, the contrast between analogue and digital thinking and relations between archivists and ...
The Society of American Archivists recognizes Fellows for their outstanding contributions to the archival profession. It is the highest award bestowed by the organization. It is the highest award bestowed by the organization.
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 .
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 ...