2015 Winter Meeting - Chicago

Society of American Archivists
Dictionary Working Group

LOCATION: Chicago
17 N. State Street (or 16 N. Wabash) – Room 820

TIMES:
Friday, January 30: 6pm–9:00pm
Saturday, January 31:  8:30am–4:30pm
Sunday, February 1: 8:30am–Noon 

A G E N D A

I. Welcome and Introduction – Rosemary Pleva Flynn    

II. Reports

A. Council Update – Geof Huth 

B. Standards Update – Kate Bowers

C. Publishing Program – Margery Sly 

III. Outreach

A. Debrief of 2014 Annual Meeting Activities 

B. Prospective Activities for 2015 Annual Meeting 

• Forum: Breakfast versus Happy Hour
• Exhibit Hall "Office Hour": Partner with Journal and Publications Editors
• "Define This" Stickers
• Tweet Chat at #saawords

C. Word of the Week

• Metrics
• Ideas for Increasing Subscriptions
• Review/Assignments for Next Terms

D. Topics for Off the Record blog posts and Archival Outlook articles

E. Roster Review

IV. Dictionary of Archives Terminology (DAT)

A. Software Options 

B. Timetable for Rollout of DAT

C. Status of the “Sandbox”

D. Definition Review Listserv

E. Implementing Feedback/Suggestions

F. Writing Definitions for Existing and New Terms

G. Glossaries in Standards versus DAT

V. Any Other Business