Guest post by Ryan Anthony Donaldson
On December 21st, the Living Computers Museum + Labs (LCM+L) hosted over 20 members of the Seattle Area Archivists (SeArch) for the year-end business meeting. Amelia Roberts, LCM+L Archivist, and Dorian Bowen, Media Archivist, also led the group on an informative behind-the-scenes tour of the museum’s archives & collections.
We are pleased to announce our next quarterly open meeting at Living Computers: Museum + Labs on December 21 from 10 am to 12 pm. Our host is Amelia Roberts, Archivist at the Living Computer Museum.
After a brief SeArch business meeting, the Archives team will be talking about the organization and leading us on a behind the scenes tour.
We’ll have holiday treats and hot coffee for a warm December meeting!
Please RSVP by December 18th to seattle.area.archivists@gmail.com.
The next open membership meeting for the Seattle Area Archivists will be at the Seattle Art Museum’s Maloney Conference Room on Monday, August 28, 2017 at 3-5 pm. In lieu of the usual business-and-tour format, we’ll host a brainstorming session on further ideas for SeaAA events and priorities, using the results of our membership survey as a jumping-off point.
If you can’t join us in person but have more feedback you didn’t get to express in the survey, please email us your thoughts at seattle.area.archivists AT gmail.com. We really do want to hear from the membership on how we can best facilitate greater involvement and interaction!
We would appreciate an RSVP via email so we can make sure to have enough space (and bring enough snacks!).
Please join us for this important meeting on Friday, May 26th, from 2-4 PM. We will be at: NARA SEATTLE, 6125 SAND POINT WAY NE.
The outgoing Steering Committee will announce the results of the Steering Committee election for the 2017-2019 term. We will also learn about the National Archives, their holdings, and how one can perform research.
We hope to see many of you there!
The Seattle Area Archivists Steering Committee would like to thank everyone who attended our special happy hour last week to discuss the future of SeaAA. We were so pleased with the turnout and it was clear from the meeting that our membership wants SeaAA to continue! We made a call for nominations and volunteers to serve on the steering committee and have already heard from several of you who expressed interest. If you have not already contacted us with a nomination or to volunteer, we ask that you please do so by March 31. If we have exactly five potential new members, we will proceed without an election. If we receive more than five, we will hold an election in April. Thank you again to everyone!