By Christine Garaudy, MLIS student at Louisiana State University Photo by Christine Garaudy. I was lucky to land a graduate assistant position early in my MLIS program, joining a university’s special collections during my second semester. At that point, I had taken Introduction to Archives and could explain original order, provenance, and MPLP, but only in theory. Once I started working hands-on with real collections, everything clicked.

Katie Kerekes shares the benefits of a spooky show-and-tell tradition at the Harvard Law School Library.

Join the SAA Students and New Archives Professionals (SNAP) section for some job search advice from SAA Career Counselor Michelle Ganz. This presentation will cover how to create an effective resume/CV and how to prepare for interviews. Michelle will also discuss inclusive strategies for job-searching for people with disabilities, as well as approaches for dealing with the job search’s impact on mental health.

Are you an archives student or new archives professional with a story you want to share about your educational journey? We want to hear from you! We are currently seeking submissions for the SAA SNAP Blog’s: Student Experiences series. We are excited to refresh this series with new voices and stories about how archival education is shaping emerging professionals. When you reflect on your archives education, what class, project, or learning experience has had the most impact on you?

Congratulations to the new team!

This post is part of a SNAP series of five posts presenting posters on the projects of emerging professionals in the archives field. They will be presented at our annual meeting on Tuesday, July 29th with an opportunity for participant questions. Please register for the meeting using this link. Please submit questions ahead of the meeting using this link…

This post is part of a SNAP series of five posts presenting posters on the projects of emerging professionals in the archives field. They will be presented at our annual meeting on Tuesday, July 29th with an opportunity for participant questions. Please register for the meeting using this link. Please submit questions ahead of the meeting using this link…

This post is part of a SNAP series of five posts presenting posters on the projects of emerging professionals in the archives field. They will be presented at our annual meeting on Tuesday, July 29th with an opportunity for participant questions. Please register for the meeting using this link. Please submit questions ahead of the meeting using this link…

This post is part of a SNAP series of five posts presenting posters on the projects of emerging professionals in the archives field. They will be presented at our annual meeting on Tuesday, July 29th with an opportunity for participant questions. Please register for the meeting using this link. Please submit questions ahead of the meeting using this link…

This post is part of a SNAP series of five posts presenting posters on the projects of emerging professionals in the archives field. They will be presented at our annual meeting on Tuesday, July 29th with an opportunity for participant questions. Please register for the meeting using this link. Please submit questions ahead of the meeting using this link…

The SNAP steering committee is requesting poster submissions to be presented at our Annual Meeting on July 29 (9 am PT) on Zoom. As students and new professionals, we learn from each other by demon…

The SNAP steering committee is requesting poster submissions to be presented at our Annual Meeting on July 29 (9 am PT) on Zoom. As students and new professionals, we learn from each other by demonstrating a steadfast dedication to preserving history while promoting inclusion and diversity. As part of this year’s meeting, we will be selecting individuals or groups to…

By Jenna Bennett During my Spring 2025 Archives Internship at the Nichols House Museum in Boston, I transcribed dozens of letters addressed to Rose Standish Nichols. Many were charming and formal—notes from Woodrow Wilson or Queen Sophia of Greece, full of news and pleasantries. But one correspondent, General Robert C. Richardson Jr.—a veteran of the Philippine-American War and both World Wars—left behind something more intimate: a series of letters that nearly brought me to tears.

by Nicole Font When I first started at the New York Botanical Garden and was still finding my way around the archive, one of my colleagues asked me to pull the “vegetable people” she needed for a tour one day. I had no idea what I was actually looking for, but I headed down to the archive to see what I could find.

By Marlene Lozano, 2024-2025 SAASC Chair (San Jose State University) Volunteering on the board of a student group can be a very rewarding experience. It helps build leadership skills that will be especially useful in the workplace, and provides a safe and supportive space to develop your network. With so many other student groups also looking for board members, and with the varying and shifting priorities of adults in a graduate program, it’s not uncommon to see vacancies and transitions throughout the board’s term.

Yale University Library Research Guides: Reparative Archival Description Working Group: Recommendations

We appreciate your interest in serving with SAA-SNAP! For information about the work that SNAP does, ways to serve, types of positions, and deadlines, please see the overview document created by SNAP...

This is the first installment in our new series, SNAP Show and Tell. More information on how to submit your own discoveries in the archives is available in our series introduction post.   While processing the John Rensenbrink papers at Bowdoin College Library, I explored the life of a scholar, activist, and political thinker. A professor of philosophy, history, and government, Rensenbrink was a principal founder of the U.S.

Have you ever come across something in the archives that made you stop in your tracks? Whether it was an unexpected document, a fascinating artifact, or a story hidden in the records, we want to hear about it! For our new SNAP blog series, SNAP Show and Tell, we’re inviting students and new professionals to share one cool thing they’ve discovered in the archives.

What can SNAP do for you? We're asking SNAP members to take a few moments to answer a brief survey. This will inform the steering committee about how members are engaging with us and what you'd like to see from future programming so we can help students and new professionals get the most out of membership with SNAP! TAKE THE SURVEY (Not a SNAP member yet? Join us!)