Kansas City Area Archivists

04/15/2026

👋🏼Hi again KCAA members and fans!

The Steering Committee for KCAA is seeking nominations for 2 spots on the leadership team. Those include:

💫Junior Co-Chair: responsible for planning, directing, and coordinating the affairs of KCAA. The Junior Co-Chair will help the Senior Co-Chair preside at meetings. Junior Co-Chair will help be the liaison between the committee leadership and KCAA members.
💫Secretary: is responsible for keeping minutes of all meetings of the organization and making them available to the membership. The Secretary shall oversee the maintenance of records of KCAA until such time as they are turned over to the State Historical Society of Missouri (KC) Manuscript Collection.

Nominations are open until Friday, April 24th at 5pm. Please send candidate names, bio, and headshot to [email protected] by the deadline. Membership will have the opportunity to vote on the candidates The week of April 27th to May 1st. We will announce the winner of the election at the KCAA Spring Business Meeting! 🌟

11/21/2025

What a great turnout and speaker line-up at the KCAA Fall Symposium! 🎉Thank you to all the presenters, the Museum of Kansas City, and Tara Laver, KCAA Events Chair, for making this happen. We got to discuss some interesting topics in our profession with all the amazing professionals that joined us!

09/24/2025

Calling for presenters at the KCAA Fall Meeting | Friday, November 14, 2025 | The Museum of Kansas City

KCAA seeks presenters for our Fall Meeting, to be held Friday, November 14, 2025, at the Museum of Kansas City. This is your chance to share your recent projects, successes, challenges, lessons learned, or research. Topics, formats, and duration are open!

To propose a presentation, please send your name, affiliation, presentation title and brief description of what you would discuss to [email protected] by Wednesday, October 8, 2025.

Exact time of the meeting is still to be finalized, but it will be about 1:00/1:30-4:30/5:00.
Attendance is free for members. Non-members can join to attend. More details and registration link coming soon.

(Image courtesy of Missouri Valley Special Collections at the Kansas City Public Library)

09/18/2025

Wanted to send a shout-out to Samantha Bradbeer-Stephens! She is a Hallmark historian and archivist and former KCAA senior co-chair. She was featured recently in a Kansas City Star article on Hallmark's archives and their Peanuts collection in particular. She was also featured on the You Don’t Know Peanuts Podcast and helped install a new display on the Hallmark & Peanuts partnership at the nearby Hallmark Visitors Center. She is doing an amazing job with some interesting and fun work!

https://www.kansascity.com/news/local/article311555384.html

https://open.spotify.com/episode/6k8PNL32azVYAYGPhTNaGY?si=4lGquthjRPKs-BuYy9HrTQ

https://corporate.hallmark.com/about/hallmark-cards-company/hallmark-visitors-center/

The Star took a field trip to Hallmark to look at over a century of artwork hosted inside the 17,000-square-foot building, just a few days before Snoopy’s birthday.

09/06/2025

The MAC Fall Symposium will be held at the St. Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum in St. Louis October 24 and 25. There will be presentations and discussions on the topic of trauma-informed practice in archives and museums.

Registration is open through October 2. More information on the Symposium, and registration, can be found at their website:

Trauma Informed Practices in Museums and ArchivesOctober 24-25, 2025St. Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum36 Millstone Campus Dr.St. Louis, MO 63146

08/29/2025

KCAA’s Summer/Fall 2025 newsletter, the Dusty Shelf, is out!

Available soon on our website to get those live links!: https://www.kcarchivists.org/newsletters
 
Find information on all the exciting things KCAA has done in 2025 so far including our happy hour, business meeting, and summer meet-up as well as current events in Libraries, Archives, and Museums (LAM); upcoming conferences; and more!
 
If you or your archives have any exciting news, opportunities, archivist shout-outs, etc. please send submissions to [email protected]. We want to hear from you!
 
Please read and enjoy! :)

06/02/2025

KCAA is now on Instagram‼️Come follow us and check out our first post!

It is to share about our Spring 2025 business meeting at the Johnson County Museum! After wrapping up KCAA updates, we took a tour through JCM’s collections storage and gallery. We got a sneak peek at the next special exhibit they are planning that involves wedding and quinceañera dresses. Us archivists, historians, curators alike love our maps, photos, etc. and we looked through those too along with lots of other archival materials! It was another successful and exciting meet-up! Thank you Johnson County Museum for hosting!

05/08/2025

🚨The Kansas Historical Society is hiring‼️🚨

They seek to hire a Traveling Archivist. This position supports State Archives in providing onsite consultation to promote records management and archives best practices for local and state government agencies and offices. The candidate will participate in preservation projects to improve overall access to historically significant Kansas government records and develop records retention and disposition schedules.

For more information, and to apply see the official State of Kansas job posting (https://jobs.sok.ks.gov/psc/sokhrprdcg/APPLICANT/HRMS/c/HRS_HRAM_FL.HRS_CG_SEARCH_FL.GBL?Page=HRS_APP_JBPST_FL&Action=U&FOCUS=Applicant&SiteId=1&JobOpeningId=216524&PostingSeq=1&).

For questions, please contact Megan Burton at [email protected].

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