- Public Library Archives & Special Collections Section Meeting
Society of American Archivists
Friday, October 17, 2025 10 am PT/ 11 am MT/ 1 pm ET
Agenda:
- Approve meeting minutes from September: Erinn motions, Heather seconds to approve.
- Coffee Chat: Possible date: Friday, November 7 @ 12pm ET (could postpone, but best to keep before the new year)
- Lauren has yet to confirm on true crime (?) library programming coffee chat
- Nazelie sent off emails to Ann Arbor Public Library LGBTQ walking tour archive; Seattle Public Library African American Collection
- Memory lab @ Colorado Public Library - potential presentation topic, but perhaps more interest in blog post
- If these ideas don’t materialize into coffee chat presentations, they can turn into blog posts instead
- Check in Oct 27 to see if any coffee chat ideas have materialized, and then postpone accordingly
- Erinn & Nazelie will do a little more recruiting
- Public library members of SAA
- Section Leader Orientation, Oct 23 12:00-1:15 pm. Find on SAA Connect or Register here: --
- Blog ideas? - alternative to coffee chat
- If libraries contacted don’t want to speak, they can write a blog post instead
- Goal: one for december
- Powell library - write up of what they did this summer; curious about their process (memory labs)
- Past ideas: old holiday-themed recipes
- Erinn wants to contact past PLASC members and seeing if they want to talk about what they have been doing in their PLA
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