Public Library Archives & Special Collections Section Meeting
Society of American Archivists
Friday, November 21, 2025 10 am PT/ 11 am MT/ 1 pm ET
Agenda:
- Approve minutes from October:
- Erinn: motion; Mott: second: approved!
- Coffee Chat:
- November recap: Meral’s presentation; pursue list of oral history conference speakers; perhaps we can reach out to them and see who spoke about those topics
- January topic: mid/third week of January
- Action item Nazelie: reach out to AADL or SPL and see if there is a Friday in January 16, 23, 30
- March topic: AADL / SPL (Friday, March 6, or 27) - Nazelie can’t 3/13 or 3/20
- Action item Erinn: Follow up to oral history chat in March (potentially in May?)
- Microsite not allowing edits
- Can’t add announcements for coffee chats
- Blog ideas
- Thanksgiving ephemera?
- Action item Erinn: ask for slides from recent coffee chat
- SAA Council meeting
- Issues around SAA Council being more reactive around attacks on archives & libraries / archivists & librarians
- Another way for us to connect with other sections / SAA in general: find other sections with overlapping interest? At the official meeting in July, or these monthly meetings, we can have a joint program, double up & save all of us some work
- Action item: we can take a look at other sections
- For example, in 2023 we partnered with Web Archives section
- December 19, Steering Committee meeting
- 11am MT / 12pm CT / 1pm ET
