2016-07-21 Meeting notes

Date

Attendees

  • Jennifer R Hecker UTL

  • Beth Dodd UTL

  • Daniella Lozano, HRC
  • Elizabeth Stauber, Hogg Foundation for Mental Health
  • Amy Armstrong, HRC
  • Abby Adams, HRC

Notetaker

  • Beth Dodd

Agenda

  • Round robin - new collections, staffing changes, new projects or ideas, updates, questions
  • Follow up on new shared resources spreadsheets
  • Society of American Archivists pre-conference roundup
    • What's everyone's plan? Who's going? Presenting? When?
    • What sessions/workshops/roundtables/sections/meet-ups are you excited/curious about?
    • Not going? What can someone keep an eye out for, or do for you in Atlanta?

Agenda for next mtg:

  • recap of archive's response to Campus Carry
  • post SAA
  • plan UTAAC retreat, tours, working meeting.  Ex. GOOB(er) time - HRC Scholars Coffee every wed at 10am.  go to coffee and then tour.

Discussion items

TimeItemWhoNotes
5 minRound robinElizabeth Stauber, Hogg Foundation
  • first archivist for the foundation
  • interned prior for 2 years
  • Hogg Foundation around for 76 years.  Mental health support since the 1950s.
  • she is working on appraisal, with focus on the grant files.  gathering data sets from past records. 
  • past 20 yrs grants software
  • photographs: events; ephemera: brochures; correspondence: fr miss ima, etc.
  • use: 75th anniversary, book
  • records retention schedule- UT's
  • Regional Foundation Library is no longer a part of Hogg Foundation
5 minRound robinAbby
  • Born digital collections survey- issues like data extraction, donor agreements
  • Using wiki to do this- grid spreadsheet
  • student asst doing accessioning
  • site visits in CO: UC boulder..., Denver Art Museum's American Institute of Graphic Arts.  Will write a report that will
5 minRound robinAmy Armstrong
  • NEH audio survey of non-digitized: condition, intellectual value (most important and most at risk).  Tools they wanted to use were Media Score and Media Rivers (intellectual)  (U Indiana).  item level for condition but not intellectual, so Plan B: PSAP - was in beta.  started out as a/v but moved to other formats.  for smaller repositories.  all of hrc stuff is clustering in the middle so not as useful.  now using rubric (columbia u's a/v tool).  unfortunately, it required playback.
  • catagories are from the tools, sub-genres are from hrc staff
  • planning grant discussion.  dissemination
  • new associate director for access and description (back of house to front of house)- Jim Kuhn ?  Focus is on the benefits of the researchers.  still waiting to hear what his priorities are for staffing.  Provisional EAD for all new collections.  Helps with prioritization for processing.  AAA practices this with provisional
5 minRound robinDaniella Lozano
  • Ian Sinclair processing continues
5 minRound robinBeth Dodd
  • PMCS
  • Campus Carry
  • UTL reorg - AD for Stewardship (Wendy Martin), AD Distinctive Collections & Content Strategie
  • Campus Priorities
5 minRound robin 
  • NEH Historical Reference... planning grant for zines : partnering with Florida for grad students to light platform testing in implementation phase, design interface and user testing, 2 day in person meeting
  • planning grant writing take aways from the TARO planning grant process:  mission and vision statement, other policies, documention in general is very important
  • formalizing governance structure is important for
  • qzap.org  great website!  queer zine archives project in Milwaukee
  • Austin Archives Bazaar update- swag passed out. 
5 minRound robinAbby Adams
  • site visits- very helpful!  need to do more of this.  media archeology lab at SCU.  IMLS grant - portal for legacy hardware and software.  Networking.  GOOB- get out of the building! (wink)  inspiration. 
15 minShared resources discussionJennifer Hecker
  • SAA's group added to our spreadsheet
  • ex. Deed of Gift project.  needs: dog for digi, dog for organizations. Meghan Barnard, AD for Acq and Admin. Appraisal and over Curators (subject specialist, selectors, exhibitions)
  • Texas laws that affect archives - National effort with Reference, Access and Outreach
  • focused work day? 
40 min

SAA pre-conf roundup

 
  • Abby, Jennifer, Elizabeth are going
  • CMS group - ArchivesSpace demo
  • local music group
  • Electronic records group during RAO meeting.  Marketplace of ideas- mini talks.  Seed swap- envelopes to put business cards in for sub-groups. 
  • ideas- virtual site visits

Action items

  • @EVERYBODY populate the Shared Resources spreadsheet!
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