Announcements

Posting on behalf of Ellen Engseth, IAAS Senior Co-Chair:

To all SAA colleagues and especially members of IAAS and AES:

As you know, the theme for our Archival Vistas Briefings series this year is international work and training opportunities for archivists. Please save the date for our next session in that theme: March 5th, 2024 10 am central time. Details to be shared soon!

Relatedly, I thought perhaps the following opportunity hosted by ICA-SUV might be of interest. Please join us on the 30th if you want to talk about education around the globe!

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All,

Join for the third session of an informal discussion group among archivists that we are calling Community--Coffee--Cultures (CCC)! We meet on the last Tuesday of every other month at 14:00 UTC (London time), for anywhere between 45-60 minutes.

Tue, Jan 30, 2024. 14:00 GMT/UTC (London time) -- [your local time: https://bit.ly/Jan30-localtime]
Focus: Archival education and training

Zoom meeting link:
https://bit.ly/ica-suv-community
Meeting ID: 987 0466 4511
Passcode: 230926

Note: This session will be in English. While interpretation into other languages is not provided unfortunately, participants can help translate for each other! It's quite informal.

What is Community--Coffee--Cultures (CCC)?
Some of you may remember a reading group that we started in 2020 (https://www.ica.org/en/suv-reading-group). We thought we'd do something slightly different for this next year. Thank you to all who participated in the reading group, and please feel free to continue joining us! Community--Coffee--Cultures (CCC) is to build community, learn from varied cultures of practice around the world, and maybe have coffee (or other beverage of choice). We hope this will also be a way of fostering discussion and who knows, even collaboration. We are picking six broad themes to see how archives in different parts of the world think about these. Discussions are not structured, and they are not restricted to the theme during these meetings!

Future CCCs:
Tue, Mar 26: Salaries, parities, and labo(u)r issues
Tue, May 28: Cataloging, archival description niggles, metadata
Tue, Jul 30: Ethics in sourcing, access and use of collections

Past CCCs:
Tue, Sep 26: Digitization practices
Tue, Nov 28: Appraisal practices

Best,
Venkat Srinivasan, Bangalore
Ellen Engseth, Minneapolis
Anne-Flore Laloë, Heidelberg