Fellow SSA Members,

We’re not even halfway through 2015 yet, but it appears to be a rather dramatic year for archives. From records management issues in universities to questionable email practices of public officials to laws that appear to be throwbacks to the early twentieth-century, there’s a lot going on that can affect both archives and archivists. With that in mind, the Issues & Advocacy Roundtable of the Society of American Archivists is launching a blog series called Archivists on the Issues and we are looking for contributors.

Entries should discuss how a particular issue in the news affected or could potentially affect you as an archivist and/or your collections. Unless contributors indicate otherwise, each post will be published anonymously. Institutional information will be limited to broad identifiers, i.e. college/university, government, corporate, etc. Please limit submissions to 500 words. We encourage multiple entries on the same topic, as well as rebuttals, and hope to generate a rich conversation about the issues confronting our profession.

Thanks,

Jeremy Brett

Jeremy Brett, C.A.

Processing Archivist

Curator, Science Fiction and Fantasy Research Collection

Cushing Memorial Library and Archives

Texas A&M University

5000 TAMU

College Station, TX 77843-5000

jwbrett@library.tamu.edu

(979) 845-1951

You deserve a longer letter than this; but it is my unhappy fate seldom to treat people so well as they deserve.

                  -Jane Austen to her sister Cassandra, December 24, 1798