Announcements

Hello! Welcome to the new Quarterly Round-Up of Section announcements, news, job postings, and blog posts relating to electronic records in the field. This is a new initiative by the ERS Steering Committee, and we hope to continue this, as we know emails and notifications can get lost easily. If you have any feedback (about the content or to give it a snazzier name) or want to contribute, email Vice-Chair, Brenna Edwards at brenna.edwards01@gmail.com - we're excited to share this with everyone and hope to evolve it as we go! The next round-up will go out at the end of September!  

• Announcements

  • 2023 Section meeting: Joint Accessioning, Acquisitions, and Appraisal and Electronic Records Section Meeting featuring a panel on appraising and accessioning born digital records. Featuring panelists Christine Bethke, Brenna Edwards, Emmeline Kaser, and Emily Higgs Kopin. Event page here. Register here. Free and open to everyone!

  • Candidate statements for the 2023 Electronic Records Section elections are posted and available on our site. Please take a look and get to know our candidates! Voting is now open! Visit https://mysaa.archivists.org/myballots to see ballot links and vote. Once you submit one ballot, you will be redirected back to the main page to complete your next ballot. Voting will close July 17th. 

  • The Electronic Records Section published a Zotero list of resources that help archivists process and preserve born-digital collections. The ERS Resource List can be accessed on our site or via this link: https://www.zotero.org/groups/5014656/saa-ers-resource-list/library

• Papers

  • Nicole Grady Mountjoy (University of the Pacific) reviews Born-Digital Design Records (SAA, 2022), edited by Samantha Winn, in Journal of Western Archives: https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1167&context=westernarchives

• Job Postings

  • Digital Archivist Librarian, The City of Fort Worth Library, Fort Worth, TX [closes 6/29]: https://boards.greenhouse.io/cityoffortworth/jobs/5642298003?gh_jid=5642298003

  • Librarian (Digital Preservation), Government Publishing Office, Washington, D.C. [closes 6/30]: https://www.usajobs.gov/job/732161700

  • Digital Collections & Metadata Coordinator, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA [open until filled]: https://jobs.sjsu.edu/en-us/job/527290/digital-collections-metadata-coordinator

  • Digital Collection Specialist, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. [three vacancies, closes 7/24]: https://www.usajobs.gov/job/733116500

  • Special Collections Digital Access Librarian, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA [closes 8/9]: https://recruit.apo.ucla.edu/JPF08535

• Blog Posts

  • 92NY Unterberg Poetry Center Email Archives: A Case Study on Troubleshooting Email File Transfer for Processing, bloggERS: https://saaers.wordpress.com/2023/05/09/92ny-unterberg-poetry-center/ 

• Podcast Episodes

  • Archives in Context: Season 7, Episode 4: Kristine K. Fallon, Aliza Leventhal, and Jody Thompson: https://archivesincontext.archivists.org/2023/05/09/season-7-episode-4-kristine-k-fallon-aliza-leventhal-and-jody-thompson/ 

• News

  • Cooper Hewitt Announces Formal Establishment of Digital Curatorial Department, Smithsonian, March 9: https://www.si.edu/newsdesk/releases/cooper-hewitt-announces-formal-establishment-digital-curatorial-department

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Brenna Edwards
Manager for Digital Archives
Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin
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