Announcements

Dear colleagues,

The Society of California Archivists (SCA) invites submissions of session proposals for our 2025 Annual General Meeting (AGM) to be held in-person from April 2-4, 2025 at the Garland Hotel in Studio City, CA.

The deadline for proposals is Friday, December 6, 2024 (11:59pm PT).  If you have a particular topic in mind and are looking for co-presenters, please use the SCA AGM ideas spreadsheet to make connections.

SUBMIT your session proposals here: https://forms.gle/qXmbVhu77PETHSc7A

The Program Committee invites your submissions, especially those based on next year's theme The Future of Memory: Archival Innovation and Sustainability. The theme can be broadly interpreted, expanding on the scope of interpretations of innovation and sustainability. We aim to include a broad and diverse range of sessions and topics. Possible session topics could include:

- Equitable access

- Balancing innovation in preservation

- Sustainable practices in preservation

- New models for engagement and access 

- Collaborative community archiving 

- Big data and sustainability

- Archiving social movements

- Anticipating technology shifts and their impacts on archiving

- Sustainability of funding and resources,

- Disruptive technologies

- Decolonizing the archive

- Developing partnerships for sustainability 

- Minimalism in archiving

Other aspects of archival practice and research are also welcomed.

First-time presenters, current graduate students, early-career professionals, solo archivists, community members, and other individuals who work with archival materials in less traditional or unconventional roles are encouraged to submit a proposal.

Questions? Please contact the Program Committee Co-Chairs Sue Luftschein, at vicepresident@calarchivists.org, or Stef Baldivia, at memberatlarge@calarchivists.org 

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Susan Luftschein
Head of Special Collections
University of Southern California
luftsche@usc.edu
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