At the invitation of the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), CoSA Executive Director Joy Banks, SERI Coordinator Michelle Gallinger, and cultural competency consultant Helen Wong Smith joined ...
Valencia Johnson, Princeton University Dawne Howard Lucas, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill The latest edition of "In Conversation With..." features Valencia Johnson, Archivist for ...
The CoSA 2022 Digital Preservation Capability Maturity Model Self-Assessment Survey was administered between January and March. Forty-five states and one territory completed the survey. This report highlights ...
After a three-year hiatus, CoSA members will be convening in person in Nashville this September as part of the Best Practices Exchange (un)Conference. The schedule of CoSA annual meeting activities has ...
The Council of State Archivists proudly announces the following recipients of its 2022 annual awards. Rising Star: The Rising Stars awards acknowledge outstanding contributions by individual staff members ...
Council of State Archivists Announces New Executive Director Appointment The Council of State Archivists (CoSA) announced today that Joy Banks will be CoSA's new executive director ...
By Alexandra Klein, National Humanities Alliance Communications and Government Relations Manager In early March, five months after Fiscal Year 2022 began, Congress finally passed a funding package for ...
MayDay Preparedness is Everyone’s Business Did you know that, in 2021, the U.S. experienced 20 separate billion-dollar weather and climate disasters, putting 2021 in second place for the most disasters ...
CoSA Releases Milestone Cultural Competency Report Relevant, Respectful, and Responsive: Government Archives in the 21st Century – An Overview of Cultural Competency in State and Territorial Archives ...
Does your archives need an email preservation policy document? Do you need to update your email preservation policy? As part of the CoSA PREPARE: Preparing Archives for Records in Email grant, CoSA has ...
The Council of State Archivists (CoSA) represents the repositories of official government records of state, territorial, and District of Columbia governments. As the primary organization representing the ...
Putting the Digital Preservation Capacity Self-Assessment Results to Work for You by Veronica Martzahl In the lead up to the 2022 Digital Preservation Capacity Self-Assessment survey launch, ...
Images: Graves County Courthouse, exterior and interior of clerk's office, Mayfield, KY (provided by KDLA) The Council of State Archivists and the Friends of Kentucky Public Archives, Inc., recently joined ...
By Lori Ashley CoSA’s Digital Preservation Capability Self-Assessment survey is a high-level framework of requirements from ISO 14721 and ISO 16363. This is the fifth and final blog in the BACKER series ...
By Helen Wong Smith, MLIS, CA, FSAA Archivist for University Records, University of Hawai’i and Cultural Competency Consultant on CoSA’s Building Archival Capacity for Keeping Electronic Records (BACKER) ...