Announcements

Please join SAA's Issues & Advocacy Section Steering Committee for our 1^st meetup of 2024 in the Hive Mind program series, in which we will be discussing Eira Tansey's A Green New Deal For Archives on Thursday, January 25th from 2-3pm EST (1-2pmCT/12-1pmMT/11-12pmPST).  Zoom information below.

 

Tansey's important work brings up a lot of issues archives and archivists are facing and calls for us to take action in demonstrating the centrality of our work.

 

We invite you to join us for this conversation to talk about this thought (and hopefully action)-provoking piece.  Topics we plan to discuss include: 

• Gaps in archival education: How do we effectively create opportunities to understand the impacts of climate change on communities and collections in both graduate archival programs and continuing professional education?)
• Advocacy: What strategies if any are archival professionals currently using to advocate for engaging with communities impacted by climate change? Are any institutions actively changing collecting practices in ways that adapt to climate change?) 
• Cross-institutional collaboration: How are institutions supporting one another against the threat of climate change in their region? Are there networks that might be activated to ensure the safety of both communities and collections as threats associated with climate change are realized?

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Elizabeth Call
University Archivist
Rochester NY
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