Welcome to the Academy of Certified Archivists

If you are approved to take this year’s exam (new applicants, those retaking the exam, and those who deferred taking it in 2019 or 2020), messages went out last week on how to register. If you did not receive the message, please check your spam/junk folders and send a message right away to Mike Breslin at aca@caphill.com.

A message from SAA:

We are gathering input through a survey from colleagues at all levels of experience for our upcoming SAA session, “Beyond Deliverables: A Whole Person Approach to Management in Libraries and Archives.”

Your (anonymized) input will be invaluable in enabling candid and practical dialogue about how both managers (widely defined) and frontline staff/individual contributors can create and sustain their capacity to facilitate an environment that uses mission-driven and purposeful tasks to develop people, not people to deliver tasks.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdyxJ04KPCO75diZY9YX1jp7TLi359-4PPIe2oIIOnZfBiuZA/viewform

The survey closes June 9, 2021. You do not need to be a SAA member to participate in the survey. Please share widely, especially with colleagues who are not members of professional organizations or who have left the archival field. We thank you in advance for your time and input!

Aliza Leventhal
Amanda Mita
Sarah Ponichtera
Norma Scott
Tamar Zeffren

Regent for Outreach, Josh Kitchens gave a presentation for the San Jose State University’s SAA Student Chapter about certification exam basics, which was recorded and posted on SJU SAASC’s YouTube channel.

Click here to watch

The Academy of Certified Archivists seeks an experienced Web Content Manager to develop and coordinate communications across ACA’s website and social media channels. This volunteer position requires excellent project management skills, experience working with various content management systems, demonstrable writing, editing, and design skills, and the ability to engage audiences through a variety of platforms. The Web Content Manager will be responsible for: working collaboratively with the ACA Regents for Outreach and Member Services to plan website and social media content, review and approve website updates, and edit content for distribution to both members and non-members. 

Please submit your materials here by May 31st.