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Team Updates

GENERAL UPDATES: A Summer of Progress!

As we move into the summer, the SNAC Cooperative continues to build momentum through new partnerships, expanded training opportunities, technical improvements, and member engagement. This issue highlights recent accomplishments across our working groups, important updates on membership and infrastructure, and opportunities to help shape SNAC’s future. Thank you for being an essential part of the […]

GENERAL Updates: Join Us in New Orleans!

This July, members of the Society of American Archivists community will gather in New Orleans for the 2026 Annual Meeting—and SNAC will be there with exciting opportunities to connect, collaborate, and learn. Whether you’re already involved with SNAC or simply curious about archival discovery and relationship-based access, we hope you’ll stop by our information table, […]

GENERAL and TEAM UPDATES: SAA, Summer-Fall SNAC Events and New Staff Announcements!

We are thrilled to bring you some exciting news—mostly a whole boatload of events for you to participate in (there’s a flyer at the end of this post for anyone wishing to circulate)! We’re Going to SAA! And we are so excited to experience New Orleans with all of those attending! Of course, many of […]

GENERAL UPDATE: Highlights from the 2026 State of the Cooperative!

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 […]

GENERAL and TEAM UPDATES: SNAC State of the Cooperative Program Announced!

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 […]

TEAM UPDATE: IndigenizeSNAC Team Members Present at CNI!

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)- […]

TEAM UPDATE: Wikipedia Edit-A-Thon with Indigenous Focus!

Brought to you by friends working on the Council for the Preservation of Anthropological Records (CoPAR), this Wikipedia Edit-A-Thon focusing on Indigenous Anthropologists may expand your knowledge and skillset working with linked data. FAIRly Obscure (The Trilogy): An Anthropology Wikipedia Edit-a-thon January 9, 2026 | 11:30 am – 4 pm Virtual REGISTER HERE   Are […]

GENERAL and TEAM UPDATES: In Case You Missed It!

We strive to keep up to date on SNAC and #IndigenizeSNAC happenings, and sometimes part of that means missing an update while some of the dust settles. Apologies for missing last month, but having said that, this update is jam-packed! Edit-A-Thon Due to the government shutdown, we have shifted our venue to the Folger Shakespeare […]