PLASC Meeting Minutes 2023 January 19

Public Library Archives & Special Collections Section Meeting 

Society of American Archivists 

January 19, 2023 2 pm EST

Meeting Minutes 

Meeting began at 2:05pm. 

Present:  

Laura Carroll 

Matthew Peek 

Biz Gallo 

Joanna Kolosov 

Approve November Minutes 

Minutes Approved Unanimously 

Agenda 

Old Business

1) Blog

      Recent posts

                  Native American Heritage Month - 153 page views

      Upcoming posts

                  No holiday post - save for next year, Laura can email participants

                  Exhibits post  

• submission from Heidi Butler, Capital Area District Libraries, Lansing, MI (January)
• submission from Laura’s colleague on African American community

February - African American History Month (Matthew) 

                  March - Women’s History Month (Joanna) 

                  Get to Know PLASC - Biz (next couple of weeks)

2) Communications Documentation - updated with SAA Connect details, Twitter hiatus, more info about blog, including create a spreadsheet for series (Laura to share PLASC drive access)

New Business 

1) Section Meeting Planning        (July date, online, 1.5 hrs)

Newspaper Digitization 

• Justin Clarke - Digital Initiatives Director at Indiana State Library - 1st speaker
• Lisa Gregory - Digital North Carolina
• Laura - talk about her library’s digitization efforts
• Tahe Zalal, NEDCC Outreach Conservator (Joanna to contact)

Addition to microsite Resource page:  list of digitized newspaper consortiums (Matthew created Newspaper Digitization Projects List)

Chronicling America

·       Digital Michigan Newspapers
·       California Digital Newspaper Collection
·       Texas Digital Newspaper Program
 

2) Other new business?

Biz inquired if we had any experience with a program that engaged teens in connected learning centered on digitization (e.g. scanning day). 

Next Meeting: Thursday, February 16, 11am PST / 2pm EST