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SAA Advocacy Resources

  • 08 Jun 2022 10:01 AM
    Message # 12809926

    The Society of American Archivists has the "Archives, Public Policy, and You" advocacy guide, which contains a lot of information about federal advocacy and a section about state and local advocacy. The next updates come courtesy of information shared with me by Bryan Whitledge, Chair of SAA's Committee on Public Policy (COPP): 

    • "We (COPP) are working to revise this [the advocacy guide linked above] to include some new information about virtual visits. We (COPP) also recently ran a webinar about conducting virtual visits with legislative staffers and that ½ hour recording should be processed and available on the SAA YouTube soon – both the revised guide and the video should be done in the next month." 
    Another note from Bryan: 

    • "COPP members are always happy to help with advocacy-like tracking down the correct people in an office, setting up a pre-meeting to game plan how to approach an advocacy effort, or accompanying anyone to a virtual meeting."
    You can learn more about the work COPP is doing by visiting their microsite on SAA's website at

    www2.archivists.org/groups/committee-on-public-policy.


    Jeremy Brett


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