August - October 2019 Steering Committee Minutes

August 2019

• The ERS Steering Committee did not meet outside of the Annual Meeting in August 2019.

September 2019

• The ERS Steering Committee did not meet in September 2019.

October 2019 

• Overview of 2018-2019 Project
  
  • Reviewed the responses from last year’s survey on top 3 digital archives resources and the current project implementation document
  • Early career member
    • Interest from three people so far; Susan will reach out to them to see if they’re still interested in working on this project
  • Voted to continue this project
  • May consider splitting up responsibilities among steering committee members: some folks work on annual meeting planning, others commit to continuing documentation/resource project
• Secretary Update
  • Jane will continue as secretary for 2019/2020 term and will post public meeting minutes on a quarterly schedule: August-October (Q1); November-January (Q2); February-April (Q3); May-July (Q4)
• BloggERS update
  • Brenna, communications liaison from bloggERS, will be joining our monthly calls for the 2019/2020 term
• Possible topic(s) to discuss in the future
  • Negotiating with manager to dedicate time to SAA/ERS activities
  • Collaboration with SAA Records Management section
    • ERS did a joint section meeting with RMS a few years ago
  • Leadership skills and development: managing a program/budget, working with HR, building a business case for something, salary negotiation, writing ethical project positions, etc. (Rachel Mattson would be  a good person to work with if we do anything with this idea)
  • Solicit ideas from membership and help facilitate community-owned project