2017 BAS Annual Business Meeting

                 New BAS Education Chair Jennifer Johnson discusses her plans for next year.

The 2017 SAA Business Archives Section (BAS) Annual Business Meeting took place on Friday, July 28, 2017, at the Oregon Convention Center, with about 90 attendees. 

Among the highlights: 

-Outgoing Chair Jamie Martin (IBM) announced the BAS election results and introduced the new steering committee members: Incoming Vice Chair/Chair Elect Greg McCoy (Procter & Gamble), Incoming Vice Editor Meredith Torre (Atlanta Housing Authority), Incoming Secretary Michele McKinnon Fricke (Capital Group), Incoming Member at Large Lauren Gaylord (Pixar) and the first BAS Education Chair Jennifer Johnson (Cargill). 

-Jennifer spoke about the success of the BAS Mentorship program, with 54 participants signed up. More mentors are needed.

-Eric Chin reported on outreach efforts to archival students to promote business archives, including the first joint Twitter chat with Students and New Archives Professionals (SNAP) Section, Jamie spoke at SNAP’s meeting at SAA conference and the new Education Chair will continue the BAS/SNAP partnership. 

-Eric also announced that BAS has its first SAA intern Adrienne Duris (University of Pittsburgh). She will assist with updating the Business Archives Directory on the BAS microsite and with social media. 

-Citi Heritage Collection Global Curator Kerri Anne Burke shared information about the Citi Fellowship Program, a partnership between Citi Center for Culture and the Queen Library, which began in the 2013/14 school year. 

-Becky Haglund Tousey spoke about her experience attending the International Council on Archives (ICA) Section on Business Archives (SBA) symposium, held this year in Stockholm. 

-Jamie reported on attending the first Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference (MARAC) Business Archives Forum held at MARAC’s Spring Meeting in Newark in April 2017. 

-Bill Jackson reported on this year’s Business Archives Workshop, held June 12-14, 2017, at the Harley-Davidson Museum.  

-Jamie reported on results of the SAA 2016 conference feedback survey. 

-Eric spoke of this year’s accomplishments and his plans for the upcoming year.

-SAA Council Representative Rachel Vagts gave an update on the SAA Council meeting to the BAS members. 

Paul Lasewicz encourges BAS members to participate in future SAA Conference sessions.

Outgoing BAS Secretary Marie Force created Meeting Minutes that can be accessed here.

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