August - October 2019 Steering Committee Minutes

August 2019

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