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Public Library Archives/Special Collections Roundtable
Meeting minutes
Washington, DC
August 15, 2014
Steering Committee Members present:
Steering Committee Members not present:
Chair Voss began the meeting with announcements about current PLASC initiatives, including PLASC meetings to be held, when possible, at meetings of the Public Library Association and about the Zee Map showing the distribution of PLASC membership. She also announced that, than to Jennifer Sharp’s expertise, we are live streaming the meeting to PLASC members who can’t make it to the meeting.
Chair Voss than announced the steering committee members for 2014-2015:
Carl Van Ness, co-chair of the SAA 2015 Program Committee provided a report to PLASC and encouraged proposals for the 2015 meeting. Proposals are due on October 8, 2014. He also stated that there is no theme yet for the meeting, but there are some new session formats. Van Ness informed PLASC of SAA Council’s decision to disband endorsements from Sections and Roundtables. Chair Voss added that, although PLASC can no longer endorse sessions, the steering committee is available to assist with crafting and reviewing proposals.
Geof Huth provided a report from SAA Council.
Vice-Chair Waggener introduced the four participants in PLASC’s lightening round, followed by presentations:
Ryan Edge, Project Manager, Preservation Self-Assessment Program
University Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Preservation Self-Assessment Program (PSAP)
All of us working in archives and special collections are responsible for the management of paper documents, photographs, or audiovisual media. These materials often require great care and forward-thinking preservation action. Learn about a free web application being developed by the University of Illinois to make this effort simpler, faster, and more consistent—particularly for small to mid-sized organizations!
Mark S. Greek, CA, Interim Special Collections Manager
DC Public Library, Special Collections
Collecting punk in DC
A look at the collaborative effort to document the punk movement in dc music and how this seed has spawned a genre based collection
Christina Moretta, Photo Curator
San Francisco Historical Photograph Collection
San Francisco History Center / San Francisco Public Library
Channels, Pages, Profiles…Like, Share, Follow, Tweet – What To Do & When
Over the last 4 years, the San Francisco History Center in the San Francisco Public Library has been using a variety of social media tools for the Center and the Book Arts/Special Collections. Efforts became more focused two years ago when SFPL began a Social Media Task Force that developed policy and team approaches to social media tools. Learn what has worked and what hasn’t worked for SFPL. (http://sfpl.org/index.php?pg=2000532901 ).
Katie O’Connell, Centennial Project Archivist
San Bruno Public Library, San Bruno, CA
City of San Bruno Centennial: Creation of an Interactive History Timeline
To celebrate the City's 100th anniversary, the San Bruno Public Library created a local history timeline using the web application Timeglider. Using images, text, audio and video clips pulled from our local history collection, we built an interactive timeline that spans more than 160 years and is comprised of more than 70 discrete events.
About 10 minutes was provided for audience questions.
No new business so meeting ended with a thank you from Vice-Chair Waggener for audience attendance, both in person and through the live stream.
