Steering Committe Meeting Minutes 10 February 2017

10 February 2017

Section meeting: The tentative meeting time for the section meeting in Portland is okay with everyone.

50 words or less blurb for the program due February 28th:  Lori will write something that captures our conversation today.

Spring newsletter: Call has gone out. Will add information about the section meeting to the newsletter.

Transition to unlimited section membership: The report from Council suggests that SAA members are now free to join as many sections as they would like.

*Jackie will send a message to the A&A listserv and write a post for the SNAP blog inviting new members to join

*We’ll send a welcome message out a few more times before SAA.

*We will make a special effort to welcome new members at the section meeting in Portland

*We’ll survey the new membership at some point in the future.

Handwriting project discussion: Explored the idea of having a collaborative brainstorming making session “collaboratory”  during the section meeting at the annual meeting about creating resources to help researchers interpret handwriting.

Ideas and thoughts:

*We could invite someone from Duke who worked on their instructional tools to give a lightning talk,

*Request supplies for members to make their own tools customized for their repository

*Gather information in a brainstorming session for a tool that could be created by the section

*Put online templates in a Google drive, participants could put text in specific to the type of manuscript

*Organize into tables based on what is most applicable to your repository

*Get people thinking about the ways to present this information

*Provide a template on how to make your own resource, provide a little bit of structure, then participants can go into the template and edit

*Organize a session on handwriting at the TPS Unconference; drive people to our session; helps to have content distributed at different venues at SAA since so much is going on

involvement

*We aren’t sure yet what a template would look like. Can talk with people at Duke. How digital can we be? How physical/analog can we be? What kind of a template? Where are we getting it?

*We will all review the existing sources that people provided back in the fall to see if they can inform a template for us.

*Jackie will talk to Kelly Wooten at Duke about the process of creating their zine and invite her to  participate in the section meeting.

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Society of American Archivists

Manuscript Repositories Section

Section Leadership

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