2022-10-12 Steering Committee Meeting Minutes

Agenda and Minutes

October 13, 2022

Attendees:

Susan Paterson (Chair)

Corinne Chatnik (Vice-Chair)

Allison Fischbach (Secretary)

Sarah Zimmerman (Marketing and Communications Manager)

Amanda Greenwood (Education Coordinator)

Mara Friedman (Student Member)

Absent:

[none]

Agenda items:

News/Questions/Announcements

Introductions! Name, institution, what you hope to accomplish this year, and a fun fact about yourself (All)

• Susan - University of British Columbia, goals: keep up momentum from last year!

• Corinne - Union College, goals:

• Amanda - Union College, goals: advertising and social media, increase enrollment, highlight new projects and tools

• Allison - Johns Hopkins, goals: understanding tools and workflows, how other institutions operate

• Mara - Rutgers University, goals: excited to learn more about web archives!

• Sarah - Chicago Public Library, goals: learn more about web archives

Section Google Drive folder:

Action Item: Allison will create folders for Blog and Communications 
If you do not have access, contact Susan

Overview of Responsibilities:

Standing Rules | Society of American Archivists
All members should review responsibilities

Governance Manual Handbook: 

• Governance Manual | Society of American Archivists 
  

• Microsite*: Web Archiving Section | Society of American Archivists 
  

• Microsite Manual: Group Microsite Manual (archivists.org)
  

• *need to be logged into the SAA website with your account to access microsite permissions. 

• If you cannot access microsite permissions, contact Susan.

Responsibilities:

• Sarah will manage Twitter and the Blog, with support from Amanda

• Mara will also have opportunity to work with outreach 

• Action Item: Sarah, Amanda, and Mara will meet separately to define communication strategy

Blog: Web Archiving Section

• First blog post - Last year we introduced ourselves in a first post and described a web archive that we liked. (Could we aim for a blog post to be up by Oct. 31.

• Action Item: fill out Google Doc for bios by Oct.21st
  

• Blog posts can also be recaps of Coffee Chats

• Action Item: Amanda will create a new calendar and ideas sheet for blog posts
  

Twitter: https://twitter.com/WebArch_RT 

• Action Item: Susan will contact Rosie Grant for Twitter login information to Sarah
  

• Action Item: Amanda will contact Sarah for Twitter related information

Set up our monthly meeting:

• Second Thursday of the month, 10:00 AM PST/1EST (next meeting Nov. 10th)
  

• Action Item: Susan will send recurring Zoom link
  

Old/Continuing Business (From last August)

 Coffee Chats

• Possible collabs with Ellen Engseth from the Intl Affairs Section and Kimberly Hoffman from the SAA Preservation Section
  

• Action Item: Corinne will reach out to Ellen to ask about possibly doing a blog post
  

• Ian Milligan, University of Waterloo. Archives Unleashed now working with Internet Archive. Susan has already contacted him and last summer he was willing to participate in a fall coffee chat. 

• Action Item: Susan will reach out to Ian to assess if he’s available to upcoming coffee chat
  

• Amanda recently reviewed The Past Web and can reach out to authors
  

• Limit to two (2) Coffee Chats this year

 Annual Meeting Ideas

• Possible groups to collaborate with or speakers to invite.

• Collaboration with Description Group, maybe Caitlin Birch Caitlin Birch (@preserCAITion) / Twitter (BPE Presentation Description)

Adjourned: 2:00 PM EST