PLASC Meeting Minutes 2023 July 20

Public Library Archives & Special Collections Section Meeting

Society of American Archivists

July 20, 2023, 2 pm EST

Meeting Minutes

Present:

Biz Gallo

Catherine Oseas

Joanna Kolosov

Matthew Peek

Laura Carroll

June Minutes unanimously approved

  1) SAA Section Meeting

• Great turn out! Very Successful. 68 viewers at its height.
• Move link to meeting recording to the site    

2) 2023-2024 Elections

• Put off election for Vice Chair/Chair Elect until September
• Catherine running unopposed for Secretary
• What do we do if we are not able to find a VC/C?
• Get in touch with Liaison and Hannah Stryker re: Liaison and section meeting

3) Annual Report

• Laura puts together the Annual Report
• Will email us a draft
• Due Sept 1, but we will get it done sooner

4) Newspaper Digitization And other ongoing projects 

• Matt is cleaning up the resource and newspaper page
• Matt will write a note with what to do for the next board
• Google drive clean up with Laura!

5) Blog 

Upcoming posts

Exhibit post by Johanna Russ at Chicago Public Library

• Make sure the blog is spread out.
• Series for the blog