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  • 6/8/2023 1:00 PM CDT
  • 6/8/2023 2:00 PM CDT
  • 5/8/2023 11:45 PM CDT
  • Virtual
  • Rachael Woody

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Better Together: Collective Strategies That Promote Healthy and Balanced Workloads For You and Your Team.

What does a healthy, balanced, and sustainable workload look like? How do we work together to define our roles, promote individual and team flourishing, and resource our existing services equitably while addressing new and emerging needs? Recognizing archives workers as our most critical resource, this session will take a worker-first approach. The panel will address advocacy and management strategies for full-time permanent staff at all levels as well as student workers, interns, volunteers, part-time staff, and contract or short-term employees in precarious positions. Participants will receive sound workload capacity management practices and collective strategies that promote healthy and balanced workloads for all.

Instructors:

Rachael Cristine Woody is the Founder + Director of Relicura™ LLC, a firm that provides services to archives, museums, and cultural heritage organizations. Woody specializes in collection assessment, establishing archival programs, and launching digital collections. She served on SAA’s Committee on Public Awareness, founded the Archivist-in-Residence (paid internship) program at Northwest Archivists, and offers monthly webinars on professional topics including Burnt Out in Glam World, Hello, Imposter, How Much am I Worth?, and Your Mind is a Terrible Thing to Waste. Woody is a “people first” advocate and has honed her career and advocacy work at both the National Museum of Asian Art of the Smithsonian Institution, and the Oregon Wine History Archive at Linfield University, before founding her company: Relicura™ LLC. All Relicura™ webinars are available to the public at https://www.youtube.com/@Relicura.

Sandy Rodriguez (she/her/hers) is the Associate Dean of Special Collections & Archives at the University of Missouri-Kansas City Libraries. In this role, she is responsible for administrative leadership for rare books and manuscripts, university archives, sound archives, digital projects, and cataloging and metadata; advancing the Libraries' diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives; and building the Libraries’ partnership with the UMKC Center for Digital and Public Humanities. From 2018-2020, she served as a Co-Principal Investigator for an IMLS National Leadership in Libraries grant-funded project, Collective Responsibility: National Forum on Labor Practices for Grant-Funded Digital Positions. Aimed at developing ethical labor practices for grant-funded digital libraries, archives, and museums workers, the forums culminated in the development of The Collective Responsibility Labor Advocacy Toolkit.

Sam(antha) Meier (she/her/hers) serves as the Archivist for Discovery at Cline Library's Special Collections and Archives (SCA) at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, Arizona. In this role, she oversees the processing, arrangement, and description of SCA’s archival holdings, including born-digital, digitized, and analog materials. Her team typically includes one permanent full-time staff member, grant-funded or contract archivists and staff members, graduate interns, and student employees. Sam is committed to mentoring her staff, undergraduate and graduate students, and early-career information professionals. She is a member of the Society of American Archivists (SAA) and the Arizona Archives Alliance, an SAA Career Counselor, an SAA Mentor, and an SAA Native American Archives Section steering committee member, as well as the current spokesperson for Cline Library’s Council of New Academic Professionals (CNAPS). Sam received the Arizona Library Association’s Emerging Leader Award in 2021.

Jessica Chapel (she/her/hers) is the incoming Chief of Digital & Online Services at the Boston Public Library. In this role, she'll provide strategic leadership for a team of archivists, librarians, and technologists responsible for creating, stewarding, and enhancing BPL digital collections. Jessica serves on the SAA Foundation board of directors, as chair of the SAA Accessibility & Disability Section, and was a co-founder of the Archival Workers Emergency Fund. With Alison Clemens and Lydia Tang, she is developing a collective leadership curriculum for SAA Education.

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SAA Members: $0

Employees of SAA Member Institutions: $0

Nonmembers: $0