ARCHIVES*RECORDS 2016

CoSA President Matt Blessing and SAA President Dennis Meissner invite you to this lively opening session that includes presentation of key awards and installation of SAA’s newest Fellows.


SAA President Dennis Meissner has written "We remain too white, too traditional, perhaps too blind to the varieties of diversity that surround us." Archivist of the United States David Ferriero concurs and has been addressing this at the local and national level.  He will report on work that is being done at the National Archives and Records Administration to address diversity and inclusion.


Featured is the keynote address—Getting Our House in Order: Moving from Diversity to Inclusion—by Chris Taylor, Director of Inclusion and Community Engagement at the Minnesota Historical Society. Chris notes that, “Inclusion is leveraging the benefits of diversity to improve our work through creativity, innovation, and inclusive working environments. Inclusion starts with an internal focus to identify how the field can support and incorporate inclusion into the foundations of our work. By getting our ‘house in order,’ we can then focus our inclusion efforts outward to connect with communities that have been historically under-engaged by the profession.”