SAA Web Archiving Steering Committee
Agenda and Minutes

June 26, 2024
1p EST

Present: 

Corinne Chatnik

Amanda Greenwood

Kristi Mukk

Hope Dunbar

Lizzy Zarate

Absent:

Allison Fischbach

Alison Clemens

Start: 1:00pm

Outreach Ideas:

• Lizzy interested in writing about IIPC conference?

  • Lizzy: Maybe not - wrote a travel report for the conference organizers, not sure if it will be published but don’t want to repeat info

  • If they post it, we can link to it

• Do we want to do a post about the WARCgpt chat? Related: do we want to share the recording?

  • Yes, share recording and slides–Kristi will post

  • Slides in Google drive–share link 

  • 80 attendees!

  • Comment that we should do more content like this (ie. tools/workflows/walkthroughs)

• Follow-up on blog post about Webjam group?

  • Amanda can write

    • Due date: Jul 31, 2024

    • Hope has a couple of colleagues that may want to join

• Kristi is writing a link roundup post for May/June

Annual Meeting Planning: 

• From Joanna Kolosov, Public Library Archives & Special Collections section:

• Virtual Joint Annual Section Meeting – WAS (Web Archiving Section)  and PLASC (Public Library Archives & Special Collections)

  • Wednesday, July 17, 2024
    11am PT / 12pm MT / 1pm CT / 2pm ET
    Register now to receive the link!

  • I confirmed with Allyson Smally of Chicago Public Library. She’s preparing a presentation on the Korean American Archiving Project, and she agreed for it to be recorded. She provided the following bio: “Allyson Smally has an MLS from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and an MA in Public History from North Carolina State University. She has been an archivist since 2013. Since late 2019, she has been the Archival Specialist at the Chicago Public Library's Northside Neighborhood History Collection.”

  • Dylan Gaffney of Addressing Underrepresentation in Rural New England Community Archives: Documenting the History of Black Lives in Rural New England | Internet Archive Blogs has also agreed to present.

• See details in the Shared Folder:

SAA Annual Meeting Conversation Lounge

• Do we have a call/time and topic? Missed deadline of June 14: https://connect.archivists.org/discussion/host-a-conversation-lounge-at-...

• Webjam group?

Elections

• Draft and call for candidates complete?

• Sent election stuff to SAA Governance they said we missed the deadline idk

• Call for Candidates Ballot create - Corinne

Action Items: 

• Call for Candidates Ballot create - Corinne will do immediately and Amanda will send out to Announcement listserv on SAA Connect

• Kristi will post WARCgtp video and slides

• Virtual Joint Annual Section Meeting – WAS (Web Archiving Section)  and PLASC (Public Library Archives & Special Collections) Wed 7/17 11am PT / 12pm MT / 1pm CT / 2pm ET

• Amanda-Webjam blog post due 7/31

Adjourned:1:32pm