WARSEC meeting minutes
February 20, 2018 - 2 pm EST (11 am PST)
Attendees: Karl-Rainer Blumenthal, Samantha Abrams, Nikki Thomas, Alexis Antracoli
Section business
Standing rules and elections
Education
DocNow webinar
SAA Pre-conference
- Questions from SAA Education chair regarding difference between proposal and DAS workshop; Karl provided response re: the benefits of more than a 90 minute webinar (hands-on, etc)
- Request to present at METRO on May 3rd; Sam has prior commitment at Stanford and cannot co-present
Communications
Social media updates
- Sam live-tweet Rhizome event (Ethics & Archiving the Web) / conflicts from NEA Rise Up meeting in New Haven
SAA Annual
WARCSEC Annual meeting program
- No partner for meeting, will need to come up with 60-90 minutes of programming
- Overview of past year; introduction of new leadership; OCLC reports (Jackie Dooley)
- Ideas:
- Archives in gov’t as panel discussion
- Select speaker and do general survey
- Themes of year - Online journalism & rapid response to community events
- Past calls for rapid response: climate change collection; government shutdown
- SAA Theme: Transparency (Alexis - don’t limit ourselves too strictly to theme)
- Idea can be finalized after call for topics and updated on online program
- Format:
- standard format
- dating game (?)
- something more interactive
- How to develop a rapid response program?
- Pass out scenarios; break into small groups; brainstorm responses; come back and share with larger group
- Somewhat diverse panel (not all white men)
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