PLASC Meeting Minutes 2022 October 19

Public Library Archives & Special Collections Section Meeting

Society of American Archivists

October 19, 2022, 4 pm EST

Meeting Minutes

Meeting Minutes doc

Meeting began at 4:06 PM (EST)

Present: 

Laura Carroll, Chair

Joanna Kolosovo, Vice-Chair

Catherine Oseas, Secretary

Matthew Peek, Member-at-Large

Approve September 21, 2022  meeting minutes

Approve meeting minutes: Approved unanimously 

Agenda

1) Blog

Recent posts - Hispanic Heritage Month

• Highest blog traffic yet!
• Make sure to post on socials

Upcoming posts 

Get to Know PLASC

 November: LGBTQIA+ or Native American Heritage Month? 

 October is Queer History Month - Catherine is doing Queer history & indigenous history

Catherine to put together a list of holidays in December/January

Matt is spearheading a call for series blog posts (exhibits)

2) Microsite updates

  Everyone can access microsite now! YAY!

3) Twitter

Less traction. Catherine stopped Wednesday polls briefly until we can get more questions.

Focus on fun and quirky questions?

4) Ideas from last meeting

Program on newspaper digitization - What venue? Panel or speaker on newspaper preservation/digitization. 

• Drill down on prongs of the topic
• Google doc to brainstorm topics and speakers
• Section meeting?!

Donor relations 

• Donations gone wrong
• Maybe something on weeding?

5) new photo for the microsite?

• Just going to use images from the 4 collections of the committee

Action Items

Adjourn 4:01