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<b>Feb 5, 2023</b>
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<td style="font-size:0.7em" align="right">started an hour ago, <a href="https://connect.archivists.org/network/members/profile?UserKey=c1960a66-a926-4ba5-b1b8-d1af71377656" target="_blank">Courtney Bailey</a> (0 replies)</td></tr>
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<p><span style="font-weight:400">In an effort to further engage with our fellow regional archival organizations, the RAAC Steering Committee is featuring spotlights on various regional archival organizations. If you are interested in sharing the work that your regional archival organization has been doing over the past few years, feel free to fill out </span><a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1H8y7BxTJ66gaaBZB12vNjtDzPqelllVoINvI2zjKCsc/edit" title="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1H8y7BxTJ66gaaBZB12vNjtDzPqelllVoINvI2zjKCsc/edit" target="_blank"><span style="font-weight:400">this form</span></a><span style="font-weight:400">. And please share this message with your organization's members so that we can all benefit from learning about the work being done by our fellow regional archival organizations!</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight:400">In this highlight, the RAAC Steering Committee is happy to share/shine a spotlight on the </span><span style="font-weight:400">Association of St. Louis Area Archivists (ASLAA)</span><span style="font-weight:400">!</span></p>
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<p><b>Who are you?</b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400">Association of St. Louis Area Archivists (ASLAA)</span></p>
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<p><b>What is your regional organization's history?</b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400">Established in 1972, the Association of St. Louis Area Archivists (ASLAA) is a professional association of archivists and manuscript curators from institutions throughout the bi-state metropolitan area. ASLAA holds two business meetings per year at repositories around the St. Louis area. Since 1985, ASLAA has published the Directory of Archives and Manuscript Repositories in the St. Louis Area.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight:400">ASLAA currently has 127 active members. Membership is open to all interested individuals. Our members come from a range of local archival repositories, consulting companies, and adjacent fields. </span></p>
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<p><b>What are some recent initiatives your organization has undertaken?</b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400">The past year has been a busy one for ASLAA! We currently have three active teams who have all worked hard to serve our membership and community.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight:400">ASLAA Serves, our team that undertakes archival community service projects in the St. Louis region, had until now had to curtail the number of projects they usually hosted due to the pandemic. They have recently come out of hibernation when they hosted a volunteer project in September 2022 with Washington Park Cemetery (</span><a href="https://www.savingwashingtonpark.com" title="https://www.savingwashingtonpark.com" target="_blank"><span style="font-weight:400">https://www.savingwashingtonpark.com</span></a><span style="font-weight:400">), an African American cemetery founded in 1920. Many turned out for the event to help out by cleaning the grounds and unearthing buried gravestones.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight:400">Our Professional Development Committee has continued to provide free professional development opportunities to our membership. Last June, they hosted their first experimental “Pop-Up” Presentations, a series of brief virtual presentations spread out over time to provide different point-of-views about a chosen archival issue. The first topic focused on the challenges of documenting underrepresented groups in archives, particularly the types of gaps present in the historical record, misinformation, and the ways researchers and archivists are overcoming them. In September they invited Carol Kussman and Sara Ring to conduct their two-day virtual workshop “From Acquisition to Access: Tools and Workflows for Preserving Digital Content” for ASLAA’s members. </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight:400">Our Social Chair, Sarah Gabriel, has coordinated different endeavors to restart ASLAA’s social offerings which had gone to the wayside due to Covid-19. She held the first social we had in a long time in October and worked with the Professional Development Committee to host a behind-the-scenes tour of the recently reopened St. Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum in January 2023.</span><span style="font-weight:400"> </span></p>
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<p><b>Is there a particular initiative and/or accomplishment your organization is proud of?</b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400">There are too many to choose from!</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight:400">For ASLAA’s executive board, one particular accomplishment has been updating our constitution and handbooks to reflect modern changes. Between an ASLAA-wide vote and hard work on the part of our past and current board members, we’ve been able to bring greater clarity and transparency to our work and provide avenues for further work with changing technologies and tackling how to adapt to Covid-19.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight:400">Across the board for ASLAA in general, our greatest accomplishment has been continuing our work connecting our members and providing them programs in professional development, networking, and volunteer work despite the challenges posed by the pandemic.</span></p>
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<p><b>Tell us all about your aspirations - what would you like to see your organization doing for its members?</b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400">Like so many other organizations, ASLAA pivoted to virtual meetings and programming to engage members at a safe distance during the Covid-19 pandemic. While many missed the face-to-face networking (and the refreshments!), other members also appreciated the flexibility of attending remotely. As ASLAA plans for the future, we hope to continue to offer a mix of virtual and in-person events to accommodate the varied needs of our members. Our wonderful Social Chair has already revived ASLAA social activities, so members can look forward to a slate of upcoming outings this year.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight:400">ASLAA will continue to host professional development workshops and webinars to develop the skills of its members. The Professional Development Committee regularly welcomes feedback through surveys to inform the types of professional development offered to membership. We plan to craft our offerings to meet the evolving professional needs of ASLAA members. </span></p><br><br>------------------------------<br>Courtney Bailey<br>Chair, Regional Archival Associations Consortium<br>Vice-Chair, Committee on Education<br>NC Administrative Office of the Courts<br>------------------------------<br>
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