PLASC Meeting Minutes 2021 May 19

Public Library Archives & Special Collections Section Meeting

Society of American Archivists

May 19, 2021, 4pm EST


Minutes

Present: Johanna Russ, Dylan Gaffney, Angela Stanley, Laura Carroll, Heather Lanctot, Catherine Oseas

Discussion of CDC announcement and state and individual library mask rules and guidelines.

Approve April 22, 2021 meeting minutes. Motion to approve. passed.

Updates


Chair, Angela Stanley

Next year’s leadership. Heather has agreed to serve as Chair. Laura has agreed to serve as Vice-Chair. We will put out a call for nominations for other positions.

Registered for our annual meeting session: Friday, July 30th at 12pm EST

Touched base with Deborah Hakes re: Annual Meeting session. Would like to run her ideas by this group before the presentation. Will provide an outline and attend the next steering committee meeting.

Added edits and narrative to survey report doc

Vice Chair & Newsletter Editor, Patricia Delara. Put out a call and has not yet received any submissions.

Website, Johanna Russ. No updates.  

Secretary & Social Media Coordinator, Dylan Gaffney

PLASC Twitter Polls - Questions and Results

Ideas - Ask people about their library’s mask mandate situations, current programming plans or status, Check back in on where people are working from. Devise some questions about advocacy to help Deborah and help promote the session.

Survey Working Group, Catherine Oseas & Heather Lanctot

Draft Survey Report

Group are invited to provide feedback and input. Perhaps add an appendix at the end with supplemental data. The goal is to have a final draft version for review at the next meeting for final edits and thoughts before release at the section meeting.

Outreach, Laura Carroll

Biggest task is to get the word out about the section meeting. Write up description of the speaker for the newsletter. Tie twitter questions to the promotion of section meeting. Create a graphic to help promote the event.

Old Business

Section Meeting program @ SAA Annual, 7/30 @ 12pm

  • Deborah will try to join us for our next steering committee meeting

  • Start promotions to membership following that meeting

  • Include details in next newsletter

New Business

2021 Ballot 

Leader Resources: https://www2.archivists.org/governance/leaderresources

Action Items

  • Survey feedback by June 1st

  • Twitter questions by ASAP

Adjourn