Winter 2012 Publications Board Meeting

SOCIETY OF AMERICAN ARCHIVISTS
17 N. State Street (or 16 N. Wabash Avenue)
Chicago

*Conference Room 1620*

A G E N D A 

I.  Welcome – Peter Wosh
    (Wosh's Report to Council, Jan. 2012) 

II. SAA Overview

A. Financial Outlook – Nancy Beaumont

B. Technology – Brian Doyle  

C. Education Program Update – Solveig De Sutter

III. Reports

A.  Council Update – Tom Frusciano

B.  American Archivist Editor – Greg Hunter  

C.  Director of Publishing – Teresa Brinati  

i. Publishing Program Overview

ii. Cumulative Revenues  

iii. Inventory Report

IV. Review of August 2011 Minutes / Action Items  

V. “Fundamental Change" Project

A. AFS Modules Overview 

B. Work-in-Progress: Draft Outlines for First Three Modules

C. Brainstorming Potential Topics and Authors

D. Review of Drupal-based Prototype + Memo 

E. Sustainability

VI. Project Updates 

 A. Recently Published

i. “The Lone Arranger” by Christina Zamon

ii. “Using Archives” by Laura Schmidt (Link to online edition)

B. In the Pipeline

i. “Processing Archives and Special Collections” by Pamela Hackbart-Dean and Elizabeth Slomba

ii. “Women’s Archives Reader” edited by Tanya Zanish-Belcher

iii. “Volunteer Program Toolkit” by NARA (Judy Louise Watson)

iv. “Exhibits” by Jessica Lacher Feldman

v. “Telling Our Stories: Archives in the Digital Age” by Anne Gilliland

vi. Other Projects . . .

C. Possibilities

i. Sampler Concept – Michael Shallcross

ii. Instructional Exercises: “The Surrogate Is Not Enough” by Anne Bahda, Heather Smedberg, Mattie Taormina

iii. "Effective Processing: An Archival Reader" by Mark A. Greene and Dennis Meissner

 iv. Updating “Donating” Brochures + Link to Brochures 

v. Revisiting Topic Prospects from February 2011

VII. Succession Planning for Editor, Print and Electronic Publications 

A. Review of Publications Board Policy

B. Process