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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.

Mary Alice Harper, Chair (2019 – 2020), Head of Description and Access, Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin, maharper@austin.utexas.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

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It's here! The latest issue of Views, the SAA Visual Materials Section newsletter - now in our new Wordpress format!
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If you weren't at the annual meeting in Austin this year, you may not know, but Views moved to this new format in order to be more accessible to both content providers and readers. Please take a look around the blog site and leave comments. We'd love to hear from you.

And, if you have something to post, you don't have to wait for the Spring/Summer issue. Take a look at the Submission Guidelines and contact us! ... See MoreSee Less

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AIDS Memorial Quilt to receive a permanent home in San Francisco

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The Quilt consists of more than 50,000 panels, each one created in memory of a life lost.

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Smells like Digital Preservation (Smells Like Teen Spirit parody)

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Just in time for World Digital Preservation Day 2019, staff at State Library of Queensland have come up with another parody song, aimed at raising the profil...

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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