Society of Georgia Archivists - 2026 Annual Meeting

Meeting Dates: November 5–6, 2026

Location: Gainesville Civic Center, Gainesville, Georgia

Early Bird Deadline: October 9, 2026

Your SGA Local Arrangements Committee is excited to announce that registration for the SGA Annual Meeting 2026, "Hardening the Archives: Moving from Storage to Strategy," is now live.

Visit the registration page now to reserve your spot!

The 2026 Keynote speaker is Angela Stanley, State Librarian and Vice Chancellor for Public Libraries with the Georgia Public Library Service.

Program information and schedule are forthcoming.

There are a variety of hotels in the Gainesville area.

	Thursday, November 5, 2026		Friday, November 6, 2026
9:00-10:00am	Keynote, Angela Stanley, State Librarian and Vice Chancellor for Public Libraries with Georgia Public Library Service.	9:00-950am	25 Minute Labs It’s All Fun & Games: How To Bamboozle College Students into Engaging The Under Preserved Country: Public Libraries and Digital Preservation
10:10-11:00am	Interest Group 1 Advocacy/Outreach Conservation/Preservation	10:00-10:50am	50 Minute Labs Don’t be a dragon: Providing rapid access to collections using Accessioning-as-Processing (AaP) Mapping Archival Education to On-the-Ground Needs in Georgia
11:15am-12:25pm	70 Minute Labs Putting the Agility in Usability Testing: A Case Study with UGA’s Special Collections Finding Aids Site Beyond Custody: Building Meaningful Partnerships Between Institutions and Indigenous Communities	11:15am-12:00pm	25 Minute Labs Facet-Busting as Metadata Assessment: Evaluating and Restructuring Subject Headings in the Digital Library of Georgia (A Case Study) “Yours in the Bonds of Honor,” : Collaborative Processing of the Mrs. Kirby Smith Anderson Papers
12:00-1:30pm	Lunch	1:30pm	Membership Tour of Preserve South followed by lunch (optional)
1:30-2:20pm	Interest Group 2 Post-custodial community archives and online hosting Lone Arrangers
2:30-3:20pm	50 Minute Labs Transcribing Your Collections: OCR and AI What do I do now? Instruction basics for the overwhelmed archivist
3:30-4:15pm	25 Minute Labs Designing an Embedded First-Year Special Collections Experience: A Case Study in Student Engagement and Assessment From Atlanta to Shanghai: Remote Assessment, Appraisal, and the Architectural Legacy of John Portman
4:30-5:20pm	Interest Group 3 Archives Administration Lightning Talks Getting the Central of Georgia Railway project on track: utilizing institutional knowledge and archival community connections to tackle a monumental task. When "It Should Be Fine" Isn't Enough: Hardening Archives Against Water Intrusion Georgia Heritage Responders Update
6:00-8:00pm	Reception and Awards Announcements

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If you have questions or need more information, please email localarrangements@soga.org

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The Early Bird window for registration will close on October 9, 2025. The Regular registration window will close October 29, 2025.

Cancellations are to be refunded as follows:

Registrations cancelled more than 60 days before the event will be refunded 100% of the registration fees.
Registrations cancelled less than 60 but more than 30 days before the event will be refunded 50% of the registration fees.
Registrations cancelled less than 30 days before the event will not be eligible for a refund.

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For more information about the 2026 Annual Meeting, contact a member of the planning team:

Allison Galloup
2026 Program Committee Chair
program@soga.org

Virginia Blake
2026 Local Arrangements Committee Chair
localarrangements@soga.org

Click here for a link to previous SGA Annual Meetings

PO Box 2112, Rincon, GA 31326