Public Library Archives & Special Collections Section Meeting
Society of American Archivists
Friday, January 23 10 am PT/ 11 am MT/ 1 pm ET
Zoom link:
Agenda
- Approve December minutes
- Mott moves to approve minutes; Erinn seconds = minutes approved
- Programming during annual meeting - interest more people in attending
- Leesburg VA public library
- Non-loan narratives: Archives through barcodes
- Oakland public library
- Crowdsourcing through creative contests – lead person was at a public library
- Accept / reject - one for coffee chat, one for annual meeting
- Coffee Chat (February)
- Friday, February 13th, 1 pm ET | Heidi Morse, archivist at Ann Arbor District Library.
- Nazelie will MC
- Introduce self, PLASC steering committee members, preformatted PowerPoint (PLASC spacesaver slide for people to look at; announcements); introduce Heidi, etc.
- Erinn asked for short blurb & bio - send out for notification
- Zoom - Erinn’s PPLD - Erinn & Nazelie co-host; Heidi co-host to share her own screen/slides
- Registration - good to keep track of people who regularly come, tapping them for future leadership
- Comms emails:
- Action items:
- Erinn to make zoom
- Erinn makes / sends out registration emails to PLASC section and announcements across SAA & blog
- Nazelie connects with Heidi about slides, run of show items
- Nazelie send out invite to Michigan library & archives group
- Coffee chat potentials (April)
- Colorado libraries
- Following up on memory labs posting / interest via PPLD blog
- Community webs - web archiving at local / public library level
- Microsite still down :(
- Component group funding announcement
- March 1 is deadline for funds needed between July 1, 2026 to June 30, 2027
- Ideas for what we use our funding on between 7/2026 - 6/2027?
- Potential projects or initiatives - what can our section do to support SAA member engagement?
- Things that boost engagement with SAA, funding speaker opportunities, spanning multiple component groups, promotes DEI, sustainability?
- Paying for speakers, sponsoring scholarships - public libraries don’t usually pay for travel funds, even if a small amount, because SAA is expensive. Specifically helping public library archivists get to SAA!
- $5,000 allocated for all component groups
Action item: Erinn will work on component funding
