Curious about what we’ve been up to? March 11, 2026, was an exciting day for the SNAC Cooperative as we gathered virtually to share milestones, new projects, and our vision for 2026 and beyond. It’s been a while since our last cooperative-wide meeting in 2023, and as SNAC Director Jerry Simmons noted in his opening […]
2026 is shaping up to be a very exciting year of positive change for the SNAC Cooperative! There have been many developments and exciting plans hatched for various aspects of SNAC, including new potential description groups and partnerships, outreach plans, updates to controlled vocabularies, and more! Below are a few teasers, but we want to […]
At the Fall 2025 Coalition for Networked Information meeting, held December 11-12 in Washington, D.C., IndigenizeSNAC team members Diana Marsh, Shelbi Nahwilet Meissner (Luiseño and Cupeño), Veronica Pipestem (Otoe-Missouria), and Jerry Simmons and presented a briefing on the project. Description The briefing will share ongoing work on the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS)- […]
Our Principal Investigator, Dr. Diana Marsh, and Graduate Assistant, Ia Bull, recorded a workshop presentation with other SNAC Liaisons for eLaboratories on December 12, 2024. The presentation, titles ” SNAC for Indigenous Archival Research: Finding Records and Improving Representation,” discussed how SNAC can be used for archival research by introducing key components to the SNAC […]
IndigenizeSNAC and UMD scholars have published an essay in the Journal of the Association for Political and Legal Anthropology tackles the fundamental problems with displaced and dispersed Indigenous archival diaspora and promotes SNAC as a potential solution. These are important implications that will allow for SNAC to become better known as a discovery tool and sets […]
