2015 Minutes from Annual Meeting (Cleveland, OH)

Date: September 18^th, 2015 (Covering the 2014/2015 year)

Name of Section/Roundtable: Visual Materials Cataloging and Access round table

Officers: 

Cathy Martyniak Chair

Shannon Erb–Chair elect

Report from 2015 annual meeting:

• Number of attendees: 60
• Election results:  Kait Dorksy was selected as Chair elect
• Summary of meeting activities:  Minutes attached below.

Completed projects/activities:

The major activity of the VMCAR leadership during the 2014/15 year was creation of the Voices from VMCAR column in the Visual Materials Sections VIEWS newsletter. Coordinated by Chair elect Shannon Erb, the column provides a venue for VMCAR related materials to be shared with the VM community. The initial series of columns will provide a cataloging and access member spotlight. Please see p. 8 of the March 2015 VIEWS newsletter for the first column. http://www.archivesinaction.com/Views_March_2015.pdf

It is the intention of the VMCAR leadership to continue the series.

Ongoing projects/activities: None

New projects/activities: None

Initiatives associated with the 2014-2018 Strategic Plan: None

Questions/concerns for Council attention: None

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Name of Section/Roundtable:         Visual Materials Cataloging and Access Roundtable

Date:   August 13, 2014, 5:15 to 7:15 pm                                          

Officers:

• Cathy Martyniak  (Chair)        8/16/2014-8/13/2015
• Shannon Erb (Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect) 8/16/2014-8/13/2015
• Geoffrey Huth (Council Liaison) 8/11/2012-8/15/2015

Report from 2015 annual meeting:

Number of attendees: 60

Election results:          Kait Dorsky was elected Vice Chair (For 2015/2016)

Summary of meeting activities:

The meeting was called to order at 4:30 PM on Friday, August 21st, 2015, by Cathy Martyniak

The Chair welcomed attendees and reviewed the agenda. A call was made for Chair elect nominations. Jackie Dooley, an OCLC Program officer and 2013 SAA President presented   Statistical study of three million archival MARC records in WorldCat, focusing on visual materials, both item-level and collection-level descriptions  Stephen Fletcher, (Photographic Archivist, North Carolina Collection, Special Collections, University Libraries, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) presented Do You See What I Mean? The Idea of Visual Literacies. Wendy Pflug, (Associate Curator for the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum, Ohio State University Libraries), entitled her talk Enough. Mary Alice Harper (Visual Materials Archives Librarian, Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas, Austin) presented Photographs, Picassos, and Poison-tipped Spears: Processing the Archive of Photojournalist David Douglas Duncan Dianna Ford (Audiovisual Archivist, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame) presented Immaculate Funk: an example of mixed material processing at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Library and Archives

Respectfully submitted,

Cathy Martyniak, September 25th, 2015