[Ohiodig] SAA DAS E-Mail Archiving Workshop in Columbus 5/13 (at 2026 MAC/SOA Annual Meeting)

Mon Mar 23 07:32:34 EDT 2026

You do not need to be attending the MAC/SOA annual meeting to attend this SAA workshop at OSU.

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REMINDER: Registration Open for SAA DAS Pre-Conference Workshop at 2026 MAC Annual Meeting

The MAC Education Committee has arranged for the Society of American Archivists to offer an all-day, in-person DAS workshop (Email Archiving: Strategies, Tools, Techniques<http://midwestarc.memberclicks.net/message2/link/0146ebe2-fefb-4717-b38a-feca6dd55e0a/1>) at the 2026 MAC Annual Meeting in Columbus, OH on Wednesday, May 13, 2026. The workshop is part of the Tools and Services tier of SAA's Digital Archives Specialist (DAS) Curriculum and Certificate Program and will be offered on site at The Ohio State University's Thompson Library (1858 Neil Avenue Mall Columbus OH 43210).

To attend the workshop, you must register directly through the SAA website (details and cost information below). MAC members who are not SAA members will receive a $25 discount off the non-member registration rate using the discount code provided below. Early-bird registration ends on April 13, 2026.

Workshop Description:

Email is a chronicle of our time; its use is endemic in both organizations and in people's personal lives. Confidential and convenient, it provides critical insight into the lives and decisions of institutions and individuals alike.

To enable future scholarship and research, libraries and archives must capture, preserve, and provide access to the evidence that email holds. Yet email's complexity has prevented many archives from approaching this work in a systematic way. Email is a complicated interaction of technical subsystems for composition, transport, viewing, and storage. Archivists and information managers must build trust with email creators who will be transferring their potentially sensitive accounts, capture collections from many locations, process the multitude of email records, meet privacy and legal considerations, preserve messages and attachments, and facilitate access. This one-day course is aimed at helping participants develop a programmatic means to understand, acquire, preserve, and provide access to born-digital correspondence.

Upon completion of this course, you'll be able to:

  *   Describe the unique properties of email and demonstrate knowledge of the effects those unique properties have on email preservation and access.
  *   Identify and respond to challenges (legal, technical, and staffing) associated with programs to acquire, preserve and provide access to email records.
  *   Become familiar with email processing tools through demonstrations and an overview of commonly used tools in the field, with a focus on their use in classifying, arranging, and describing email collections.
  *   Develop an email processing workflow for potential implementation in their own repository.
  *   Consider potential description and access practices for email in their institutions.

Who Should Attend:

Repository managers, records managers, archivists, practitioners, and anyone responsible for the arrangement, description, and/or preservation of digital records. Registrants should have basic knowledge concerning digital preservation strategies. This course builds on others in the Digital Archives Specialist (DAS) curriculum, such as Basics of Managing Digital Records.

What You Should Already Know:

No prior experience necessary.

Instructors:

  *   Jessika Drmacich, Records Manager/Digital Resources Archivist, Williams College
  *   Ruby Martinez, Part-Time Digital Preservation Assistant, Penn State University

Registration:

To attend the workshop, you must register directly through the SAA website: https://mysaa.archivists.org/nc__event?id=a0lUV000005gVgUYAU<http://midwestarc.memberclicks.net/message2/link/0146ebe2-fefb-4717-b38a-feca6dd55e0a/2>

Cost:

  *   SAA members: $299 (early-bird), $349 (regular)
  *   Employees of SAA member institutions: $359 (early-bird), $419 (regular)
  *   Non-SAA members: $419 (early-bird), $479 (regular)
  *   MAC members who are not SAA members: $394 (early-bird), $454 (regular)
     *   Must use the following discount code when registering: EARX25OH
     *   Please note that early-bird registration ends on April 13, 2026.

Questions?

If you have questions about the registration process, please contact the MAC Education Committee Co-Chairs: Brandon Pieczko (bpieczko at iu.edu<http://midwestarc.memberclicks.net/message2/link/0146ebe2-fefb-4717-b38a-feca6dd55e0a/3>) or Larissa Krayer (larissa.krayer at unmc.edu<http://midwestarc.memberclicks.net/message2/link/0146ebe2-fefb-4717-b38a-feca6dd55e0a/4>)

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