The Society:
From Birth to Maturity
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Introduction
SAA Membership
SAA Leadership (Council & Officers)
Research and Publication
Annual Meeting Analysis
Financial Profile
Presidential Perspective
SAA in a Comparative Context
End Notes
End
Notes
1 Nicholas
C. Burckel, "Archivists Facing the Millennium: Preparing
for an Unknown--but not Unknowable--Future," 31 August 1996, Sixtieth Annual
Meeting, Society of American Archivists, San Diego, California. [back
to text]
2 J.
Frank Cook, "The Blessings of Providence on an Association of Archivists," American
Archivist 46 (Fall 1983): 374-99. [back
to text]
3 Actual
figures for each year: 1940 (247 members), 1965 (853 members), and 1990 (2,941
individual members). Society membership at the end of June 1997 stood at 3,145.
Membership information for 1940 was taken from the December 15, 1939, mailing
list in Box Folder of SAA Archives, University of Wisconsin-Madison (hereinafter
cited as SAA Archives). Data for 1965 was taken from the Biographical Directory
of the Society of American Archivists, 1965, and data for 1990 was taken
from SAA Yellow Pages, 1990 (check title and year). [back
to text]
4 Actual
percentages for each year: 1940 (24.5%), 1965 (28.7%), and 1990 (54.0%). Directory
information does not specify gender. Calculations are based on the author's
knowledge of the individuals or his best guess on the gender in cases where
the name may be ambiguous. [back to text]
5 Directory
information did not always distinguish between business and home addresses.
The author was more interested in which states archivists worked than in where
they lived. Examining this data in conjunction with institutional affiliation
provides a more complete picture. [back to text]
6 Actual
numbers for each category are provided in the bar graphs. The numbers for each
year do not equal the total membership numbers because it was not always possible
to determine the type of employer or to include categories for all types of
employers. The 1990 data assumes that members who selected an institutional
section (e.g., college and university) were also reflecting their institutional
affiliation. [back to text]
7 Mabel
E. Deutrich and Ben DeWhitt, "Survey of the Archival Profession--1979," The
American Archivist 43 (Fall 1980): 532. [back
to text]
8 Although
the American Library Association does not publish membership data by gender,
a sampling of individual members listed in the Handbook of Organization and
Membership Directory, 1990/91, indicates that approximately 70 percent are
women. [back to text]
9 Information
on the educational background of SAA officers and council members came from
a variety of sources, including candidate biographical sketches accompanying
the election packet, Biographical Directory of the Society of American Archivists
1965, and various editions of the Directory of American Scholars
and Who's Who in America. [back to text]
10 When
date of birth was not provided, but college graduation date was available, the
date of birth was calculated by subtracting 22 years from the graduation date.
[back to text]
11 SAA
Fellows as of 1 January 1965, listed in the American Archivist 28 (January
1965): inside
cover. Fellows listed for 1990, SAA Newsletter (January 1991): 4. [back
to text]
12 For
a discussion of the early influence of historians, see Mattie U. Russell, "The
Influence of Historians on the Archival Profession in the United States," American
Archivist 46 (Summer 1983): 277-85. [back to
text]
13 Although
there were forty-six articles, there were fifty-six authors, 48 percent of whom
were women. [back to text]
14 The
Society of American Archivists Fourth Annual Meeting Program, November 11-12,
1940, Montgomery, Alabama. [back to text]
15 AREA--SAA
National Conference on Records Management and Archival Administration, October
6-8, 1965, New York, New York. [back to text]
16 Society
of American Archivists, Final Program. August 30-September 3, 1990, Seattle,
Washington. [back to text]
17 SAA
Fourth Annual Meeting Program (1940). [back to
text]
18 AREA--SAA
National Conference (1965). [back to text]
19 Society
of American Archivists, Final Program (1990). [back
to text]
20 Financial
Statement, December 31, 1939 to December 31, 1940. Series 200/4/1, Box 1, folder
3, SAA Archives, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Budget data for 1965 in the
American Archivist 30 (January 1967): 218-19. [back
to text]
21 American
Archivist 54 (Fall 1991): 578-82. [back to
text]
22 American
Archivist 4 (January 1941): 1-12. [back to
text]
23 American
Archivist 29 (January 1966): 1-10. [back to
text]
24 John
A. Fleckner, "'Dear Mary Jane': Some Reflections on Being
an Archivist," American Archivist 54 (Winter 1991): 8-13. [back
to text]
25 The
thoughts and reflections of past presidents of the Society of American Archivists
presented in the next several paragraphs reflects the results of a questionnaire
distributed by the author to past presidents of the Society. [back
to text]
26 The
data presented in the next several paragraphs was obtained from the following
sources: AHA data from Sharon K. Tune, Assistant Director, Administration, American
Historical Association, Washington, D.C; ALA data from JoAnn Jacoby of the ALA
Archives held at the University of Illinois--Champaign-Urbana; OAH data from
Arnita Jones, Executive Director, Organization of American Historians, Bloomington,
Indiana; and Encyclopedia of Associations, Vol. 1, 1991 (Detroit: Gale
Research, 1991), 942, 1004, 1032, 8422, 9093. [back
to text]
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