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June Monthly Update
Schedule at a glance
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New job posting for ArchivesSpace: Standards and Testing Archivist
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We are now accepting applications for a new three-year term position on our team:
Standards
and Testing Archivist. This job may be particularly appropriate for an early career archivist.
The person in this position will split their efforts between standards support and testing-based activities and serve as the
liaison to the User and Technical Advisory Council sub-teams who are involved in these activities. For the standards part of their time, they will keep track of the overall archives standards landscape and ArchivesSpace’s support of specific standards that
are important to our current and future community, with a particular focus on creating crosswalks and other tools to improve ArchivesSpace’s support of international standards like ISAD(g). The testing part of the job will include doing regular manual testing
of the ArchivesSpace application to make sure things work correctly and writing behavior scenarios and simple automated tests to improve our testing coverage overall. Like all ArchivesSpace jobs, it is fully remote and professional travel and training relevant
to the work of the position will be paid for and encouraged.
The
full
job description is on the Lyrasis jobs portal. Applications must be received through the portal and must include a cover letter and resume.
The deadline to apply is July 7, 2025.
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Registration announcement: 11th Annual ArchivesSpace Member Forum
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The ArchivesSpace program team is excited to announce that
registration
is now open for the
11th Annual ArchivesSpace Member Forum! This year’s forum will be held on August 24, 2025, in Anaheim, CA, at the
Hilton Anaheim. In addition to this in-person opportunity to meet, we will also be holding two virtual learning opportunities in advance of the in-person forum on the 24th.
This community-driven member forum is a
free half-day event open to anyone affiliated with an ArchivesSpace member institution. Just as in previous years, this will be a free opportunity for staff from ArchivesSpace member institutions
to meet and share information with each other and the program team about all things ArchivesSpace. While this event is free, registration is required.
The agenda for the in-person meeting is still being developed, but anyone planning to attend the events on the 24th is encouraged
to register now to assist the planning team in making appropriate arrangements. We also encourage all attendees to consider
submitting
a proposal for the forum to help make this event great!
In addition to the in-person forum, we will be offering a pre-forum virtual workshops the week before the forum. Details and
registration for these sessions are also available on the wiki.
For a more detailed agenda, visit the event wiki at
https://archivesspace.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/ADC/pages/4687036417/ArchivesSpace+Member+Forum+2025.
Feel free to contact the ArchivesSpace team at Archives...@lyrasis.org with questions. We look forward to seeing many of
you there!
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Don’t forget to submit your proposal! 11th Annual ArchivesSpace Member Forum Call for Proposals
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We are thrilled to be holding our
11th
Annual ArchivesSpace Member Forum in person at the
Hilton
Anaheim in Anaheim, CA, on August 24, 2025, from 9:00 AM - 12:30 PM PT.
We welcome presentations and discussion topics on anything related to your work. We're specifically interested in holding sessions
or discussions related to ways organizations have solved or are looking to solve common issues within ArchivesSpace or how organizations have improved their own ArchivesSpace workflows in ways that may improve ArchivesSpace use for the whole community.
There is a short
Google form for proposals. Proposals will be reviewed on a rolling basis.
The last day that proposals will be accepted is July 14, 2025, and all presenters will be notified by July 15, 2025.
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Results of the 2025 Governance Board Election
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The
ArchivesSpace
governance model is built on the principles of maintaining a high level of community engagement and fostering an active and responsive community.
It provides opportunities for all levels of our membership to participate in and provide guidance for the development of the ArchivesSpace application and community activities.
Thank you to everyone who participated in the ArchivesSpace 2025 Governance Board Election. This year the position for the representative
at the Medium level was up for election. We are happy to announce the result:
Medium level: Nadia Nasr, Santa Clara University
Nadia’s term will be from July 1, 2025, to June 30, 2028.
A big thank you to all those who volunteered to serve, and thank you to everyone who voted. To learn more about ArchivesSpace
governance, please visit https://archivesspace.org/governance-board-and-councils.
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DadoCM Open Community Call and Comment Period Extension
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[posted on behalf of Greg Wiedeman and the DadoCM Project Team]
We invite you to attend an Open Community Call on
Delivering
Archives and Digital Objects: a Conceptual Model (DadoCM) at 2:00pm Eastern time on July 15th, 2025. DadoCM is a minimal, system-agnostic framework
for describing digital objects with archival principles.
Please
register here to attend.
Extended Feedback period:
We’ve received a wealth of insightful and largely positive feedback from practitioners on DadoCM’s impact, along with constructive suggestions on closing remaining
gaps. We sincerely thank everyone who has contributed so far for their thoughtful engagement.
We are extending the open comment period until after the Open Community Call. For actionable feedback, please visit the
draft
document to leave inline comments, or submit feedback via the
Feedback
Form
by the end of July 16th 2025.
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Webinar announcement: Free ‘Em All Radio: Using ArchivesSpace in the community and the classroom
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Join us on
July 8, at 12:00pm-1:00pm EST (find
your local time) for a 60-minute webinar to learn how ArchivesSpace is being used to support the development of the Free ‘Em All Radio Archive, a
community oral history project housed at Dominican University. Free ‘Em All Radio is a call-in podcast launched in 2016 by The Lady of Rage and Chairman Fred Hampton Jr. of the Black Panther Party Cubs. The show has become a living historical record, broadcasting
the voices of incarcerated individuals and political activists who speak on current events, racial injustice, and prison abolition.
Read
the full article here >
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New Appointees to the Technical Advisory and User Advisory Councils
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We are delighted to announce the following appointees to our Advisory Councils for from July 1, 2025, to June 30, 2028.
Technical Advisory Council
Beth Mawhinney, University of Denver
Colleen McFarland Rademaker, Disciples of Christ Historical Society
Gregory Wiedeman, University at Albany, SUNY
Jimmy Chen, National Center for Atmospheric Research
Laura Schroffel, Getty Research Institute
Mary Mellon, Duke University
Paul Sutherland, American Philosophical Society
User Advisory Council
Barbara Ilie, Durham County Library North Carolina Collection
Bo Doub, University of Southern California
Evalyn Stow, Michigan State University
Joanne Archer, Library of Congress
Karen Trop, American Philosophical Society
Katerina Dimitriadou-Shuster, Chair, Cornell University Library
Lindsay Wittwer, University of Rochester
Nick Pavlik, Bowling Green State University
Thank you to all for stepping up to serve the community in this way and thank you to this year’s Nominating Committee for all
their work in recruiting people to serve.
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Recording available: Using Assessment and Event Records in ArchivesSpace
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We are excited to welcome our newest members to our community! Some of our new members since May 31st include:
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ARCMTL | Montréal, Quebec
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Lake Forest College
| Lake Forest, IL
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Minnesota Historical Society | Saint Paul, MN
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Museum of Southern Jewish Experience | New Orleans, LA
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Oakdale Cowboy Museum | Oakdale, CA
As of June 30th, we have 534 General members, 24 Educational Program members, 2 Registered Service Providers, and 3 Consortium
Providers.
Thank you to our
current
ArchivesSpace members for your contribution to the development and sustainability of the ArchivesSpace application. ArchivesSpace has a membership
model to support the continued development of the application and user community and ArchivesSpace members are eligible for a
variety
of benefits. If you are
interested in ArchivesSpace membership for your organization, email us at
Archives...@lyrasis.org.
ArchivesSpace monthly updates provide news about ArchivesSpace community and program activities and are sent to our member
listservs, the ArchivesSpace non-member Google Group, and SAA’s Collection Management Section listserv, as well as being posted on the ArchivesSpace website. Please feel free to share this update with people you know who have an interest in ArchivesSpace but
may not be on one of these lists.
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