Agenda and Minutes
November 20, 2021
Attendees:
Melissa Wertheimer (Chair)
Susan Paterson (Vice-Chair)
Rosemary Grant (Marketing and Communications Manager)
Amanda Greenwood (Student Member)
Ryder Kouba (Education Coordinator)
Absent: Kiera Sullivan (Secretary) - minutes taken by Ryder Kouba
Agenda items:
News/Questions/Announcements
Old/Continuing Business
- Twitter, blog, and listserv updates (Rosie): Twitter has gone well with good engagement and utilizing the #WebarchiveWednesday
- Goal to make longer memo on instructions for microsite that oceans up incorrect or obsolete information
- First blog was posted and Grace Moran has her post ready for December
- Amanda and Rosemary reached out to various people; Ed Summers will post on new tool for DocNow with a draft for late December/early January (post in January)
- If any of the steering committee wants to do a blog post (or knows someone who might be interested) send a topic and date to Rosemary
- Listserv: Rosemary can only post on Web Archives and Main SAA listservs. Workaround can be emailing chairs of various sections to pass messages on
- Susan offered to email potential contributors while notifying Rosie
- Potential section collaboration (Melissa)
- Melissa shared her update in the Performing Arts section newsletter as an example of potential collaboration with other sections
- Melissa proposed the idea of a coffee chat or guest speakers at the annual meeting to discuss web archives as records management with Federal institutions/colleagues
- Updates on outreach and education: Ryder will contact people after Thanksgiving for potential coffee chats
New Business
Action Items
- Melissa will get in touch with the SAA Council liaison to figure out how we can post to other sections
- Amanda will reach out to Archive-It for the blog. Carl and Raven are the candidates since Amanda has had the most contact with them
