Brittany Newberry Music & Popular Culture Archivist, Special Collections & Archives Georgia State University
Biographical Statement Brittany Newberry is the Music & Popular Culture Archivist at Georgia State University. Prior to her current role, she was a Processing Archivist at the Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library. Brittany holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in English with a minor in American Ethnic Studies from Wake Forest University. She received a Master of Science degree in Library and Information Science with a concentration in Archives Management from Simmons University. Brittany is an active member of the Society of American Archivists and the Society of Georgia Archivists. For SAA, she has served as a steering committee member for the Archivists and Archives of Color Section and as chair of the Membership Committee, and as chair of the Career Development Subcommittee, and a member of the 2023 Nominating Committee for SAA. Brittany previously held leadership positions on the Society of Georgia Archivists board. She served as the Assistant/Outreach Manager, Assistant/Communications Director, and as a member of the Nominating Committee. She has also served as a member of the ArchivesSpace User Advisory Council. During her career, Brittany has presented on various conference panels and has given several presentations on different projects. Her research and professional interests include music archives, popular culture archives, donor relations, African American archives, DEIA, and archival activism.
Candidate Statement The program committee provides membership and archival workers with opportunities to learn and network with each other. As the profession evolves, we must reconsider the best ways to provide these opportunities. COVID and the changing ways in which people interact and learn influence what programming we should offer and what formats they should be in. As Assistant Program Chair, I would help find ways to best support our mission, vision, and values while navigating these new challenges. We need to ask ourselves what conference themes provide for the most diverse voices to contribute? What are the best formats for reaching the most members and achieving the most engagement? How do we continue to help members stay up to date with the evolving profession and new technologies? How do we ensure that students, new professionals, BIPOC, and other marginalized groups have places to share and receive support during the conference? As Assistant Chair, I want the committee to consider these questions and more. I want to ensure that we are providing sessions that emphasize our values of community, leadership, diversity, lifelong learning, and sustainability. To do so, we need to review feedback from past conferences and explore the work of other organizations. What is working for other regional archival organizations and what do members want from the conference program? By doing so, I hope that we can provide conference programming that grants the most opportunities for our members.
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Vice President/President-Elect
Assistant Program Committee Chair (Annual Meeting)
Assistant Local Arrangements Committee Chair (Annual Meeting)
Archivist
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Nominating Committee Member 2
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