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SAA-ARMA Statement of Joint Purpose and Cooperation
The Board of Directors of the Association of Records Managers and Administrators
(ARMA) and the Council of the Society of American Archivists (SAA) hereby
acknowledge the commonality of purpose between our two organizations.
This commonality of purpose reflects the fact that SAA and ARMA are recognized
as two of the most widely respected professional bodies in the records
community in North America. We commit ourselves to maximizing cooperation,
communication and collaboration on issues of joint concern. In making
this commitment we recognize that there is a greater likelihood of success
in tackling such issues if we pool our energies and resources and share
our ideas.
Specifically, in the near future we commit ourselves to cooperation
and collaboration in the following areas:
- Explore options to encourage dual
memberships;
- Cooperate in defining reciprocal
arrangements for annual conferences, including:
- reciprocal members' rate reductions in registration fees
- reciprocal
provision of trade exhibit booths and brochure mailouts
- free
registration for the Presidents of the respective organizations
- free
advertising of conferences in our respective publications;
- Encourage cooperation
in political lobbying and public policy issues,
especially
in relation to the issuing of joint statements and media releases;
- Continue and
where possible increase cooperation in the area of standards development
and promulgation;
- Encourage information sharing and communication and collaboration
between counterpart officers on our respective committees of national
governance for
the developing
more effective synergy on common issues;
- Encourage cooperation in the area of
continuing professional development
including
investigating the possibility of holding joint symposiums;
- Encourage departments
of both associations to increase the number of joint workshops and
seminars, with the fees for such joint events being set at levels
that would
be accommodating to the members of both organizations;
- Explore development of
a joint campaign aimed at promoting the benefits and importance of
recordkeeping, both short and long term, targeting such enterprises
as corporate
America, higher education, nonprofit and government organizations in North
America;
- Explore
working together to forge strategic alliances with other associations
on a national and international level that have an interest in records, information
management and documentary heritage matters;
- Encourage the publicizing of reports
about activities of our respective
organizations
in the publications of the other organization;
- Encourage the Joint Committee to
conduct a formal review of progress on
this
Statement annually.
—Approved by Council, April 2003
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