Attendees:
Susan Paterson (Chair)
Corinne Chatnik (Vice-Chair)|
Allison Fischbach (Secretary)
Amanda Greenwood (Education Coordinator)
Absent:
Mara Friedman (Student Member)
Agenda items:
General Announcements
SAA Awards and Nominations:
“The Society of American Archivists annually recognizes leaders and achievers in the field of archives. SAA offers a variety of professional recognitions and financial assistance through an awards competition, student scholarships, and the naming of Fellows. The deadline for submitting a nomination or application is February 28.”
New Business
- Action Item: Allison will review Google Drive and document permissions
- How can the steering committee elicit feedback from WAS members?
- Draft an end-of-year survey for WAS to get feedback from events/blog posts/etc. and to jump-start the next year.
- Instructional content is popular on Twitter, WAS could focus on posting more.
- The committee has gotten no contact from Mara regarding absences from meetings. Motion to remove from the committee confirmed.
Continuing Business
Blog:
- Updates on Daniela’s post?
- This post is ready to go. Action Item: Amanda will review before posting at the end of January.
- Susan’s coffee chat write-up has been posted and tweeted.
- Action Item: Amanda will reach out to Danielle Russano-Simpkins about writing for the blog.
- Amanda is in contact with Singapore Archives for a potential blog post.
- Action Item: Corinne will reach out to contact at the NY State archives for a blog post or coffee chat.
- Action Item: Amanda will contact contributors to the Past Web for blog posts and/or attendance at a coffee chat.
Twitter: https://twitter.com/WebArch_RT
- No word from SAA on moving away from Twitter.
- Action Item: Corinne will post about Amanda’s book review for #WebarchivingWednesdays
Coffee Chats: 2022-2023 Coffee Chat Ideas
- Any Julien Masanes updates?
- Amanda has not heard back yet, but will try again.
- Collaboration with Description Group, maybe Caitlin Birch Caitlin Birch (@preserCAITion) / Twitter (BPE Presentation Description)
- Amanda contacted Caitlin for a January blog post
- Proposed last meeting: Holding a WAS-hosted informal, spring coffee chat panel on web archiving projects and careers.
- Panel for March about web archiving work and projects (Allison is willing to be part.)
- Action Item: Write up a proposal to send to potential panel participants. Allison will start the document and share by next week.
- Action Item: Amanda will email Melissa Wertheimer for contacts at NARA/Federal Gov.
- Action Item: Susan will email contacts in Canadian government archives.
Annual Meeting Planning
- Annual meeting collaboration with Ellen Engseth (SAA International Archival Affairs) and Kim Hoffman (SAA Preservation Section) re: preserving Ukrainian web content/SUCHO
- Updates from Corinne with any details from SUCHO, Ellen, or Kim
- Action Item: Susan will contact Ellen and Kim, and cc all steering committee members to set up a meeting
Adjourned: 10:55a PST/1:55p EST
