Thanks to all SAA Mentors!

Thanks to all SAA Mentor

Meet a Mentor: Michelle Ganz

Director of Archives, Dominican Sisters of Peace;Regent for Member Service for the Academy of Certified Archivists;Past Chair of the Lone Arrangers, Independent Archivists and Accessibility & Disability Sections of SAA;Regular Speaker on DEI / Disability topics What are some aspects that you most enjoy about working with mentees? Answering questions is one of my favorite … Continue reading Meet a Mentor: Michelle Ganz →

Call for Mentees for SAA’s Mentoring Cohort Program!

Call for Mentors for SAA’s Mentoring Cohort Program

SAA’s Mentoring Subcommittee is recruiting volunteers to serve as Co-Mentors for the second round of mentoring cohorts - a group mentoring model intended to complement the traditional one-to-one mentoring of the Mentoring Program.

Updates to the 1-to-1 mentoring model

Dear colleagues, The Mentoring Program Subcommittee is excited to share with you an update to the 1-to-1 mentoring model. Effective January 1, 2022, the duration for 1-to-1 mentoring relationships will be for six months, as opposed to the current duration of one year. This change is due to two factors, each with the goal of … Continue reading Updates to the 1-to-1 mentoring model →

Mentoring Partnerships: Shellaine Kelley and Jenifer Monger

Shellaine Kelley is a self-paced MLIS student with an interest in pursuing a career in visual resources and art librarianship. In 2018, she earned a BFA in Printmaking from Kendall College of Art & Design. Having recently relocated to the Greater Los Angeles area in late 2020 from the Midwest, Shellaine quickly gained employment with … Continue reading Mentoring Partnerships: Shellaine Kelley and Jenifer Monger →

SAA Committee Member Highlights: Caitlin Birch

This post is from Caitlin Birch. Caitlin is a member of the SAA Mentoring Program Subcommittee; the Assistant Archivist for Digital Collections at Dartmouth College. What drew you to archives? My initial interest in archives grew out of my experiences in journalism. I worked as a newspaper reporter, editor, and designer throughout and after college, … Continue reading SAA Committee Member Highlights: Caitlin Birch →

Mentoring Partnerships: Nora Plant and Jennifer Motszko

Nora Plant Nora Plant is an Audio-Visual Archivist at the University of Wyoming. She will be serving on the SAA Membership Committee as Key Contact for Wyoming beginning in August. Jennifer Motszko Jennifer Motszko works at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater. She is the current Chair of the SAA Membership Committee, and Chair-elect for the Manuscripts … Continue reading Mentoring Partnerships: Nora Plant and Jennifer Motszko →

How Mentoring Helped Me Overcome Imposter Syndrome (or at least start to tame it)

by Biz Gallo Biz Gallo has served as the Manager of Audiovisual Preservation at George Blood, L.P. since 2013 and recently accepted the position of Statewide Digitization Initiatives Coordinator at the Library of Michigan. She received her Master of Science in Information from the University of Michigan School of Information and has since been helping … Continue reading How Mentoring Helped Me Overcome Imposter Syndrome (or at least start to tame it) →