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The Visual Materials Section promotes communication among visual materials archivists, and represents and promotes appropriate care, management, and use of visual materials collections to the greater archival community through annual meetings, continuing education programs, publications, the VIEWS newsletter and this web site.

If you are a member of SAA and are interested in joining the Visual Materials Section, we would love to have you as a member! You can join our Section when you join or renew with SAA, or just email the SAA staff at servicecenter@archivists.org and request that they include you in the Section.

Patrick Cullom, Chair (2020 – 2021), Visual Materials Processing Archivist, Wilson Special Collections Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, cullom@email.unc.edu


2019 Report

2019 VMS Annual Report

Standing Rules

Visual Materials Section Standing Rules 2018

3 Year Plan

Every year we seek to include comments from the members of the VM section about the direction the leadership of the section is moving us. Please read and make comments if you have them, on the draft of the 2016-2019 Three year plan. Comments can be sent to any Steering Committee member!

3-Year Plan: vm-3yr-plan-2017 

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Visual Materials Section of the Society of American Archivists

3 weeks ago

Visual Materials Section of the Society of American Archivists

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A blizzard: the story behind an iconic image - InDaily

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Captured during Douglas Mawson’s 1912 Antarctic expedition and currently on show as part of a display at the Art Gallery of South Australia, photographer Frank Hurley’s A blizzard expresses the se...

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Visual Materials Section of the Society of American Archivists

4 weeks ago

Visual Materials Section of the Society of American Archivists

Views, the newsletter for the VMS section, has a new look! Check it out here: saavmsblog.wixsite.com/views

We're also actively looking for more contributions and new contributors. We've decided try a new approach. We will periodically suggest a theme and will welcome contributions of any sort on that theme. You can interpret the theme however you choose. Our first theme to start us off: Struggle. A lot of us have been struggling this past year. What are you struggling with now as an archivist? What is your institution struggling with? Has your archive been documenting the recent social and political struggles? Do you have a collection in your archive about a past struggle or event that resonates with you now? Let us know! We'll still welcome articles on any topic of your choice, too, if you have other projects or news to share.

Submissions can be sent to: saavms.blog@gmail.com
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Visual Materials Section of the Society of American Archivists

1 month ago

Visual Materials Section of the Society of American Archivists

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Column: Lillian Michelson and her one-of-a-kind film library get a digital Hollywood ending

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Six months ago, Hollywood's most famous research library seemed destined for the dumpster. At the 11th hour, Brewster Kahle and his Internet Archive saved the day.

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  • Welcome!
  • About Us
  • Meetings
  • Views
  • VMS Leadership
  • Communicate with VMS!
  • News and Resources
  • A Visual History of VMS
  • SAA Homepage: www2.archivists.org
  • VMS Calendar
  • Careers in Visual Materials