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PLASC Meeting Minutes 2021 January 19

Public Library Archives & Special Collections Section Meeting

Society of American Archivists

January 19, 2021, 4pm EST


Meeting Minutes

In Attendance: Angela Stanley, Johanna Russ, Laura Carroll, Heather Lanctot, Catherine Oseas

November 17, 2020 meeting minutes - No changes, moved, approved

Updates


Chair, Angela Stanley 

  • Coming up: SAA is hosting a workshop entitled “Advocating for Archives in State and Local Policymaking,” which will take place on January 27, 2021; she will send out link to listserv

Newsletter, Patricia Delara 

  • Fall / Winter newsletter released and posted on section microsite (Thank you to  Jo!). 

  • Call for the Spring/Summer issue will go out in late February. 

Social Media, Dylan Gaffney (absent) 

Website, Johanna Russ

  • Continued to post newsletter and minutes to microsite

Survey Working Group, Catherine Oseas & Heather Lanctot

  • Heather is proposing to clean up some of the answers to prepare for analysis

  • Next steps - How do we want to analyze data? Should we hire someone? 

  • Catherine offered to look at the data (she has some statistical analysis background) 

Old Business

Revisiting 2020-2021 Goals:

  • For the remainder of the meeting, members discussed how we can achieve our goals without adding more work and stress to ourselves and our members, especially during this time when most people are already holding most of their workday meetings via Zoom and Google Meets. 

  • We discussed the idea of a Facebook page but that was eventually scrapped due to the pitfalls of administration and moderating such pages.

  • Jo mentioned a possibility that may be helpful - first, to find out what members are most concerned about at this time due to COVID closures and possible re-openings.  Since we already have a Twitter page, we could create a few informal polls to gauge our members’ situations and concerns. Then we may be in a better place to plan virtual member chats (or something else) and address members’ needs and achieve our section’s goals.   

  • Laura will create a document to draft questions / polls for Twitter.  Some possibilities: are you curbside only, are you closed / open? Do you feel safe? Also, look into making sure poll answers and any identifying information will only be visible to PLASC social media managers in order to encourage full disclosure of concerns. 

Action Items

 

Adjourned


Updated: 2021-05-19

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